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by Željko Heimer, 23 March 2005
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Robert gribiša sent me from the Rijeka newspapers
"Novi list" (<www.novilist.hr>)
about the process of adoption of the Coat of Arms and the flag of
the Community of Klana:
The article explains that Klana is the last community in that
does not have the symbols approved yet in the Primorsko-goranska
County. (This is not exactly true according to my count, but I
may easily be wrong: I believe that Lokve does not have symbols
approved yet though last info I have on Lokve is indeed old; also
I have no info on the symbols of Vinodol community as well as
those of Rab city.) Anyway, the local assembly adopted at first a
historical coat of arms that is preserved in the State archives
in a form of a seal from 19th century. The seal showes a shield
with an anchor, crowned and supported by a lion and a griffin.
This was adopted in 1996 in its entirety, but in 1997 the
Ministry of Administration refuzed to approve it as it does not
alow the elements around the shield and suggested a shield with
an anchor only. However, the local inhabitants of Klana are not
satisfied with that emblem since they are a community in
highlands away from the sea and do not identify themselves with
an anchor. On the last session of the communal assembly the new
design was adopted in which the anchor was combined in its top
with a helberd. The community hopes that the commission for
approval of the symbols of the Central Office for the State
Administration (that inhertied the ingerence of the Ministry of
Administration) shall approve that design. Also they decided that
if the commission do not approve it, they shall go with the
previous suggestion to adopt a blue shield with a silver anchor
only. In any case, they agreed for the flag to be green with the
coat of arms in the middle. The green should symbolize the woods
of the Klana region.
Why helberd?
Namely, the community assembly explains that the town of Klana is
known to have had organized night watch (sentry) for cenutires.
The officers of this service were carring a kind of helberd that
was cllaed lcoally a "rankun".
The design is apparenly also from Heraldik-art of Rijeka, so we
may well expect a ceremonial flag, too.
Klana is a community due north of Rijeka some 15 km towards the
Slovenian border. About 2,000 inhabitants, some half of that
number in the town of the same name that is the center of the
community.
Željko Heimer, 23 March 2005
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by Željko Heimer, 23 March 2005