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Mihovljan is a community wih over 3,500 inhabitnats, 1,300 in
the small town of the same name, some 35 km north of Zagreb, 10
km east of Krapina. It should not be confuzed with Mihovljan, a
suburb and old town near Cakovec that is now part of city of
Cakovec.
The coat of arms is in use, but is certainly not approved by the
Ministry. It pictures the local church and its namesake and
parton St. Michael, the chequy fields and a rising sun behind
hose and two crossed hammers in base. On a ribbon above is the
name of the community. No flag to go with it..
Source: reported by Tomislav Šipek
Zeljko Heimer, 23 June 2004
Tomislav recently located a flag to go with tha coat of arms,
that was seen in the local magazne "Zagorski list", nr.
260 issued on 10 October 2008.
The flag is tricolour of blue over green over black with the coat
of arms in the middle, however, without the ribbon with the name
above the shield.
I suppose that the colours of the flag refer to the mining
traditions in the region of Mihovljan (probably symbolizing the
sky, land/grass and coal, cf. the mining
trade flag used in Croatia).
As it should be clear to anyone following the Croatian local
heraldry and vexillology, this coat of arms and the flag that
goes with it, are against the state regulations regarding the
municipal symbols and it is certain (or, to be on safe side,
highly porbable) that these symbols of Mihovljan have no approval
from the central authorities , as they should have in accordance
with the Croatian legislation.
Nevertheless, a repeated spoting of the coat of arms in use and
no of the flag as well should prove that they are used
nevertheless and therefore worth of mentioning.
Probably such use should be considered semiofficial (i.e. the
local authorities use it in spite of they being in theory illegal
in regard to teh state legislation).
Željko Heimer, 23 October 2008
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image by Zeljko Heimer, 23 June 2004