The book on Macedonian symbols by our member and president of the Macedonian Heraldic Society, Jovan Jonovski, was issued in English in USA by the Flag Heritage Foundation (FHF). It is an adaptation of his doctoral dissertation defended at the University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Skopje in 2018 and published in Macedonian in […]
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Book Promotion: The Flags of Israel
Text and photos Slavica Šarović, Portal for National Minorities of Croatia https://nacionalnemanjine.hr/promovirana-knjiga-zastave-izraela/ English translation: HGZD. The book Zastave Izraela/The Flags of Israel by Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Željko Heimer, LF, FF, promoted on 3 December at 19h in the Jewish Community of Zagreb auditorium, is particularly interesting because a Croatian author considers flags of another country, […]
Heimer Visited MGD and Presented its FIAV Membership Charter, 8.10.2019
FIAV (International Federation of Vexillological Associations) and HGZD President visited Skopje on 6–9 October 2019 as a guestof the Macedonian Heraldic Society (MGD), being its proud honorary member. On 8 October 2019 in the name of FIAV he presented to MGD president Jovan Jonovski a charter confirming the MGD membership to FIAV. MGD was admitted […]
Lecture on the Rijeka flag history in Rijeka, 18.06.2019
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 […]
The column »Clipeus Croatorum« by Mate Božić at the »Dalmatinski portal«
Our coleague from Solin, Mate Božić writes for »Dalmatinski portal« (Dalmatian Portal) occasional colum under the title Clipeus Croatorum (Latin for “the shield of Croats”, after the nickname of duke Mladen III Šubića Bribirski – Croatorum clipeus fortis: “curageous shield of Croats”). In the column he writes in popular way on the origins of country […]
»Grb i zastava« № 23 Issued
The number 23 of our bulletin »Grb i zastava« is issued in its 12th volume with 36 pages and a poster inlay. Additional copes may be ordered through the Leykam International. publishing house. From the »Editorial« we copy: These are exciting times for Croatian heraldry and vexillology. Since the last GiZ, more papers and monographs were written than […]
Lecture by Željko Heimer: »Flags of Šibenik«, Šibenik City Museum, 04.04.2018
On 4 April 2018 in the atrium of the Šibenik City Museum, Željko Heimer held a lecture titled »Flags of Šibenik« for the audience of about fifty citizens, who had the chance to learn about some almost entirely unknown medieval flags of their city and to remember the design of flags in use in the […]
Lecture by Željko Heimer: »Historical Origins of Modern Croatian Municipal Flags«, The Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon, 21.03.2018
Željko Heimer held a lecture titled »Historical Origins of Modern Croatian Municipal Flags« on Wednesday 13 March 2018 at the Society of Brethren of the 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 […]
»Grb i zastava« № 22 Issued
The number 22 of our bulletin »Grb i zastava« is issued in its 11th volume with increased number of pages to 36 and a poster inlay. Additional copes may be ordered through the Leykam International. publishing house. From the »Editorial« we copy: … I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all of […]
Competition for Design of Coat of Arms and Flag of the Community of Promina
The Community of Promina issued a Public Invitation for Proposal for Ideal, Artistic and Graphical Solution of the Coat of Arms and the Flag. Together with the usual conditions for such competitions, it is stated that the design might include depictions of the Promina mountain, the Krka river, vine tree, honeyberry tree (Celtis australis), the […]