Cetingrad (Municipality, Karlovac County, Croatia)

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Flag of Cetingrad - Image by Željko Heimer, 8 June 2005

• Presentation of Cetingrad
• Flag of Cetingrad
• Coat of arms of Cetingrad

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• Croatia
• Karlovac County (Croatia)
• Croatia: Local flags

Presentation of Cetingrad

The municipality of Cetingrad is situated about 50 km south of Karlovac near the north-west border of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Velika Kladuša). It has about 4,700 inhabitants, but only about 900 in the old town of the same name.

Željko Heimer, 8 June 2005

Flag of Cetingrad

The symbols of Cetingrad were designed by the Heraldic Art d.o.o. company, from Rijeka.

The flag is in proportions 1:2, light blue with the coat of arms, bordered yellow, in the middle.

Željko Heimer, 4 November 2007

Coat of arms of Cetingrad

Coat of arms of Cetingrad - Image by Željko Heimer, 8 June 2005

The coat of arms of Cetingrad is "Azure a charter argent with five seals gules pendant from it on strings proper".
The diploma is a symbolic depiction of the charter signed on the New Year 1527 at the Assembly of Cetingrad (Cetingradski sabor) when the Croatian nobility elected Archduke Ferdinand Habsburg as the King of Croatia. The charter sealed with the seals of the highest Croatian nobility and the Great Seal of the Kingdom (with checky shield) is among the most important documents of the Croatian statehood and is preserved in the State Archives in Vienna.

Željko Heimer, 8 June 2005