After the presentation in Cres and Mali Lošinj last month, Jasminka Ćus Rukonić’s monograph “heraldic Heritage of the Cres-Lošinj Islands” was presented in Rijeka on 6 July 2023. The presentation was held in the beautiful Marble Hall, the so-called The Governor’s Palace, or the Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral, Rijeka. At the […]
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Željko Heimer
Commemorative postage stamps “Croatian flags” presented, 5 June 2023.
In the Tower over the Stone Gates in Zagreb, on 5 June 2023, the Croatian Heraldric and Vexillological Association (HGZD), the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon (DBHZ) and Croatian postal authority HP – Hrvatska pošta d. d. held a ceremony promoting the new issue of postage stamps of the Republic of […]
Exhibition of the Rijeka flag in the LC Pećine, 12 April 2023
The exhibition “Rijeka Flags Through History and Today” by Željko Heimer was opened in the Pećine Local Committee. The incentive for the systematic research of the city flag came from the Association of the Free State of Rijeka, which for years supported the initiative for the city to receive a historical tricolor as the official […]
Lecture on Heraldic Artist Milan Sunko, Zagreb, 18 January 2023
During the customarly Wensdays dragon feasts (events, lectures) in the Tower over the Stone gates on 18 January 2023, a lecture entitled “Milan Sunko – (almost) forgotten heraldic artist of world renown who was revered by the old dragons” was held by Master of Ceremonies of the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon, Lt. […]
HGZD Elective Annual Assembly 2023
The Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association (HGZD) held its Sixteenth Regular Elective Annual Assembly on 17 December 2022, in the Dragon Hall of the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon in Tower over the Stone Gates, Kamenita 3, Zagreb. The President of HGZD submitted to the Assembly the Annual Work Report for 2022 and […]
On Great Croatian Heraldic Artist Milan Sunko
An original scientific paper by Dr. Željko Heimer, president of the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association (HGZD) and the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FIAV) as we as the Master of Ceremonies and Herold – Chief of the Draconian Heraldic Office of the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon was issued in the latest number […]
Željko Heimer’s book presented in Zagreb: ‘The Rijeka tricolor becomes an integral part of the Croatian identity’
(Translated from https://www.novilist.hr/rijeka-regija/rijeka/nova-knjiga-dr-sc-zeljka-heimera-u-monografiji-iznio-argumente-o-povijesnoj-rijeckoj-trobojnici/ dš, 18 November 2022, Rijeka danas, Rijeka.) In the seat of the Brotherhood of the Croatian Dragon Society in Tower above the Stone Gates in Zagreb, a book by Lt-Colonel Dr. Željko Heimer FLAGS OF RIJEKA – A MONOGRAPH OF TWO CENTURIES OF THE CITY’S STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHT TO ITS FLAG […]
New book by Dr. Heimer: In his monograph, he presented arguments about the historical Rijeka tricolor
(Translated from https://www.novilist.hr/rijeka-regija/rijeka/nova-knjiga-dr-sc-zeljka-heimera-u-monografiji-iznio-argumente-o-povijesnoj-rijeckoj-trobojnici/ author Jakov Kršovnik, September 2, 2022, Novi list, Rijeka, photos by Ana Križanec) The historical flag today is not the official flag of the City, but the ceremonial flag of the City of Rijeka: a tricolor of horizontal stripes of dark carmine, golden yellow and ultramarin I think that this unique Rijeka […]
Post-Congress Vexilological Event – Rijeka 2022
A meeting named Post-Congressional Vexilological Event – Rijeka 2022 was held at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Rijeka (UFRI) in cooperation with the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Society (HGZD) on 18 July 2022, as an event following the 29th International Vexilological Congress held in Ljubljana previous week, organized by the Slovenian […]
HGZD Donated GiZ Set for a New Vexillological Library in Catalonia
During a break between lectures on 12 July 2022 at the 29th International Congress of Vexillology in Ljubljana 2022, Sebastià Herreros, secretary of the Catalan Vexillological Assocation (ACV) handed the FIAV president a letter from the mayor of the Catalan town of Sant Clement de Llobregat, informing the world vexillological community about the renovated library […]