The Portland Flag Association (PFA) recently started an initiative to designate the October 1 as World Vexillology Day and invited other vexillological associations to support the idea and join in marking the World Vexillology Day already this year. The World Vexillology Day is envisaged as a celebration of flags and their study (vexillology), organized by participating […]
New Book Heimer: »Syntax of the modern Croatian heraldic blazons and vexillological flag descriptions«, Redak, Split, 2016
Title: Sintaksa suvremenog hrvatskog heraldičkog blazona grba i veksilološkog opisa zastava (In English: Syntax of the modern Croatian heraldic blazons and vexillological flag descriptions) Subtitle: Analiza službenih opisa grbova i zastava suvremenih jedinica lokalne samouprave u Republici Hrvatskoj kao temelj za izgradnju i formalizaciju sintaksnih pravila heraldičkog blazona grba i veksilološkog opisa zastava (In English: […]
Lecture by Heimer for DZKG 21.03.2016
Željko Heimer held a lecture for the Society of the Zagreb Classical Gymnasium on 21 March 2016. The lecture covered topics on transformation of historical coats of arms of countires, cities and communities gaining their modern design, on their designers, on increased number of figures and attributes of siants in the modern municipal arms in […]
100 Columns of Vexillology in »Hrvatski vojnik«
The last issue of »Hrvatski vojnik« (The Croatian Soldier), the first Croatian professional military magazine, bi-weekly journal of the Ministry of Defence, published the hundredth column titled “Veksilologija” (Vexillology) by Željko Heimer. This sequel is a kind of summary and review of so far published. The magazine is available on http://www.hrvatski-vojnik.hr/pdfmagazin/hv_494.pdf, and there are also […]
Tourist Guides Development Education, 21.01.2016
As part of the development education programme for their members the Tourist Guide Association of Zagreb and the Central Croatian Region (DTVZ, http://www.vodici-zg.hr) organized a lecture on coats of arms of Zagreb and Croatia by Željko Heimer, the HGZD president. He brough to mind teh guides to facts on the city and homeland symbols history […]
»Grb i zastava« № 18 Issued
This year’s fall issue of our magazine »Grb i zastava« was just printed and our members may expect it soon in their mail boxes. Additional copes may be ordered through the Leykam International publishing house. From the contents we highlight: An exceptionally interesting presentation on the flag collection of the Museum of Slavonia, divided it […]
Lecture by J. Jonovski: Macedonian National Symbols, 23.10.2015.
Marking the Day of Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle, 23 October, we hosted in Zagreb Mr. Jovan Jonovski, our Macedonian colleague and friend, president of the Macedonian Herladic Society, editor of the Macedonian Herald bulletin, and the author of the book Simvolite na Makedonija, issued those same days in Skopje. Mr. Jonovski gave lecture in organization of […]
Presenting the Book »Odoroslovlje« by Marin Sabolović in Bjelovar
The book »Odoroslovlje hrvatskih oružanih formacija 1990. – 1996.« (Uniformology of the Croatian Armed Formations from 1990 to 1996) by Marin Sabolović, issued by Meridijani publishing house, was held in the Great Hall of the Bjelovar City Museum on the occasion of the Day of the City of Bjelovar and organized together with the Croatian […]
»Seals, signets, flags, coats of arms and other insignia from the Historical Collection of the Cres Museum« Exhibition
From the 9th HGZD Annual Assembly
The Ninth HGZD Annual Assembly was held electronically, by exchange of e-mails. The HGZD President gave the annual report for 2014 and the plan for the coming year. The most important item on the agenda was the statutory amendments, which had to be made due to the legal changes in Croatia. The HGZD Statutes were […]









