International Congress of Vexillology
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 […]
During the 29th International Congress of Vexillology (ICV) Ljubljana, 11-15 July 2022, in front of the audience of some 50 vexillologists from all over the world, HGZD president Željko Heimer delivered a golden medal and honorary membership of the HGZD to Edward B. (Ted) Kaye. For the occasion the flag-bearer of the HGZD flag was […]
During the 29 International Congress of Vexillology in Ljubljana 11-15 July 2002, HGZD president Željko Heimer received a honorary membership certificate from Alexander Alexiev, chairman of the Bulgarian Heraldic and Vexillological Society (BHVS). Heimer was named a BHVS honorary members already in 2009 for his research of Bulgarian military and civil flags used on seas […]
President of HGZD, in his role as the FIAV president, answered the invitation of the Vexillological Research Center of China (VRCC, 中国旗帜学研究中心) to address the participants of the First VRCC Flag Suppliers Seminar. The Seminar was held on 8 December 2021 in Chinese city of Zhuji, some sixty kilometers south of Hangzhou, where some of […]
The Flagmaster magazine of the British Flag Institute, which has been published since 1971, published in its number 160, for the summer of 2020, an interview with FIAV President Željko Heimer led by Alex Cachinero-Gorman. In the interview, Heimer answers questions about the role and goals of FIAV, the relationship between FIAV and its members, […]
The HGZD President Željko Heimer participated at the 28th International Congress of Vexillology HEMISFLAG: 28ICV held in San Antonio, Texas, USA from 14 to 20 July 2019. The majority of the Congress program was held in the oldest hotel in San Antonio, the Saint Anthony Hotel. It was organized by the Vexillological Association of teh […]
In the Italian Union of Rijeka (Circolo) on 18 June 2019, invited by the Free State of Fiume society, Željko Heimer held a preview of the presentation on the development of the ijeka flags – on two centuries of controversies and struggle of the citizens for its flag, prepared as a paper for the 28th […]
Željko Heimer held a lecture titled »Historical Origins of Modern Croatian Municipal Flags« on Wednesday 13 March 2018 at the Society »Brotherhood of Croatian Dragon« tribune in the Dragon Tower over the Stone Gates in Zagreb. The lecture presented historical and, as a rule from them derived, contemporary flags of 24 croatian cities and communities. […]
The sixth publication in The Flag Heritage Foundation Monograph and Translation Series, titled Vexillology as a Social Science, was issued in April. It is the English adaptation of the major part of the doctoral thesis by Željko Heimer, defended at the Postgraduate Doctoral Studies of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies of […]
The father of modern vexillology, Whitney Smith established in 1961, together with Gerhard Grahl, the first vexilological journal The Flag Bulletin, and the next year estanlished the Flag Research Centre (FRC). He was its director until his retirement in 2013 when the entire considerable library and archive was transferred to the University of Texas in […]
 FIAV | Međunarodna federacija veksiloloških udrugaInternational Federation of Vexillological AssociationsLa Fédération Internationale des Associations Vexillologiques | & | Međunarodna genealoška i heraldička konfederacijaInternational Confederation of Genealogy and HeraldryLa Confédération Internationale de Généalogie et d'Héraldique |  CIGH |
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