The 18th lecture in the “Flags – Identity of Peoples and Countries” cycle was held in the Coordination of Croatian Friendship Societies (KHDP) as the 1603 KHDP tribune event. The cycle is held under the auspices of the president of Republic Zoran Milanović, and it is continued with this even after a longer break due […]
North American Vexillological Assocation (NAVA) held its 56th annual meeting in Saint Augustine, Florida, as a combined personal presence and on-line streaming participants joined through videolinks. The annual meeting in St. Augustine was originally planned as NAVA 54 for 2020, after the 28 International Congress of Vexillology San Antonio, Texas, that was also the NAVA […]
In the Tower above the Stone Gates, the seat of the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon (DBHZ), in the traditional slot of draconian events on Wednesday, 8 June 2022, and on the occasion of the Croatian Flag Day on 5 June, a presentation of several publications related to that occasion. Namely, four years […]
Four years ago, four national institutions engaged in the research and preservation of the national symbolic heritage, each in its own way: the Croatian Historical Museum (HPM), the Croatian Institute of History (HIP), the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Society (HGZD) and the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon (DBHZ) declared 5 June as the […]
Croatian Post, Inc. has accepted HGZD’s proposal to publish a series of postage stamps in 2023 on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Croatian tricolor. Croatian Flag Day (June 5) was jointly established in 2018 by four national institutions (the Croatian Institute of History, Croatian History Museum, Society of Brethren of the Croatian […]
The poster exhibition “Croatian Coat of Arms and Flag Through the History” was opened on 28 May 2021 on the occasion of the Statehood Day 30 May and the Croatian Flag Day 5 June in the Pećine Local Council in Rijeka. The exhibition author is president of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FIAV) and […]
The latest issue of the interdisciplinary scientific journal that publishes scientific and professional articles in the field of historical and related humanities, Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (Journal of the Institute of Croatian History) in the issue 2 Vol 52 for December 2020 published a review of Željko Heimer’s monograph […]
In its weekly edition of March 28, 2021, the Croatian daily Večernji list published a special article entitled “Croatia – 30 Years of Independence”, which, along with forty other interesting articles and conversations about this key moment in Croatian history on 154 pages, also contains the text “Symbol of Identity: Croatian Flag through the History” […]
Croatian national broadcasting company HRT published on its news portal on August 23, 2020 an article about flags that appear in connection with recent events in Belarus, which we transfer here translated https://vijesti.hrt.hr/646215/zasto-bjeloruski-prosvjednici-koriste-bijelo-crveno-bijelu-zastavu-umjesto-sluzbene Why are Belarusian protesters using a white-red-white flag instead of the official one? A frequent sight in the current protests in Belarus […]
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, […]
 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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