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  Gallery of sovereign state coats of arms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_national_coats_of_arms   (209 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Coat of Arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Coat of Arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina was adopted in 1998, replacing an older design that had been used since 1991, when Bosnia gained independence.
The coat of arms follows the design of the national flag.
The stars have replaced the fleur-de-lis that were found on the old coat of arms, to avoid singling out the Bosniak symbol only, and possibly to copy the flag of the European Union due to a desire of Bosnia and Herzegovina to join that body.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Coat-of-Arms-of-Bosnia-and-Herzegovina   (455 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina - Flag of 1992
The width of the Coat of Arms is 56% of the width of the flag, as I measured it.
The coat of arms of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is of a shield shape coloured blue divided into two fields by a diagonal bend coloured white and with three stylized fleurs-de-lis coloured golden- yellow in each of the fields.
The flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is rectangular with the coat of arms of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the middle on a white field.
www.fotw.net /flags/ba-1992.html   (2247 words)

  
 Bosnian flag and coat of arms through history...
Inside the coat of arms in the middle of the flag there are two miniature coats of arms, one for Bosniacs, other one for Croats.
In 1878 at the Congress of Berlin, the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina was assigned to Austrian-Hungarian administration under Turkish suzerainty.
The coat of Arms is one of Stjepan Vukcic Hrvatinic, Bosnian noble and duke from 14.
www.internet.ba /hidex/bosnian-flags.html   (513 words)

  
 The Flag Institute - Bosnia & Herzegovina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bosnia and Herzegovina had to have a 'neutral' flag by the opening of the Olympic Winter games in Nagano, Japan, on 7 February 1998.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is just a little Yugoslavia.Under socialist Yugoslav rule Bosnia and Herzegovina used a red flag with a small Yugoslav flag - with a small yellow fimbriation - in the canton.This was adopted 31 December 1946 (1).
De jure Bosnia and Herzegovina was a multi-ethnic state, but de facto it was ruled by Moslems, due to the boycott of Croats and Serbs.
www.flaginstitute.org /fibosnia.htm   (2430 words)

  
 Posavina Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
It may be noted, however, that the Coat of Arms in the flag picture there is not set in the middle of the flag, but it is off-set somewhat towards the top (though it is not in the midle of the red and white stirpes together, either).
This is further evidenced by the Coat of Arms in the header of the gazette that is indeed the Coat of Arms of HRHB.
The coat of arms of the Canton is set in the middle of the flag, and the lower end of he coat of arms (as high as one square field) enters into the blue field of teh flag.
www.fotw.net /flags/ba-po.html   (1344 words)

  
 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The coat of arms is a shield shape wich has on its left side the shield with the goldenyellow flower on the green background, on the right side the Croatian historical coat of arms with 25 white and red squares and 10 white stars in circle on the blue.
The coat of arms and the blue field are outlined with a goldenyellow line.
The flag is red, white and green, with the coat of arms in the middle.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ba-fed.html   (1637 words)

  
 East European Constitutional Review
The High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter, HR), the chief executive officer for the international civilian presence in the country, has found it necessary to bypass the elected parliamentary assembly in matters supposedly within its competence and to remove elected officials.(1) He now is proposing to place controls upon the press.
Bosnia is thus revealed as a symbolic construction, a cause of and for the international community, but not a government of or by its own peoples.
Thus, from the start, Bosnia was a “democracy” that lacked the consent of many of the governed, a putatively joint state composed officially of two (in reality, three) constituent units, each armed against the other, and “united” by a supposed central “government” that has almost no authority to act within the country.
www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol7num2/special/bosnia.html   (2586 words)

  
 Southern Slav States
The origin of these arms, which were on the flag of the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina until 1999, has long puzzled me, but they are in fact the arms of the Kotromanic family, which ruled Bosnia in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Cattaro (lordship, Austria): Argent, a lion gules armed and langued or.
it acknowledged Louis I of Hungary as liege, and and in 1358 was granted by that king the coat of arms of the Arpad dynasty (barry of eight argent and gules) as civic coat of arms to bear "on land and on sea".
www.heraldica.org /topics/national/yugoslav.htm   (3011 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina - Coat of Arms
The new coat of arms has a blue shield charged with a yellow triangle set in the observer's upper right and a row of seven white stars set bend-wise (with two stars at each end of the row cut in half).
Unlike the new arms, the flag has a blue panel to the right of the triangle and the number of stars in the flag is nine.
Both flag and arms are imposed by the High Representative on an interim basis until the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopt a law on national symbols.
flagspot.net /flags/ba).html   (934 words)

  
 Top20Bosnia-Herzegovina.com - Your Top20 Guide to Bosnia-Herzegovina!
Bosnia and Herzegovina (locally: Bosna i Hercegovina/Босна и Херцеговина, most commonly abbreviated to BiH) is a triangular mountainous country in the western Balkans with an estimated population of about 4,000,000 people.
A citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of ethnicity, is usually identified as a Bosnian.
Bosnia was formerly one of the six federal units constituting Yugoslavia.
www.top20bosnia-herzegovina.com   (2415 words)

  
 Culture > CROATIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
On their arrival on today's territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croats search their first shelters in the ruins of Roman buildings; late classical refuges serve as their strongholds for the most necessary defense.
Bosnia on the other hand tended to isolate itself politically from the territories ruled by Hungarian Arpadovic dynasty, and this political orientation is reflected in lower level of cultural and artistic osmosis.
Chalices and Arm Reliquiaries in Zadar and Nin
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/croart.html   (2492 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina in Yugoslavia # fahnenversand.de - Fahnen Flaggen Fahne Flagge Nationalflaggen Nationalflagge ...
Leauge of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SK BiH, 1963 - 1990
The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina used by NOV i POJ (People's Liberation Army and Partisan Units of Yugoslavia) in 1944, when Yugoslavia was virtually the "Democratic Federative Yugoslavia".
The coat of arms of People's Republics of Macedonia and BandH were adopted (as far as I know) at the same time as the well known socialist flags.
www.fahnenversand.de /fotw/flags/ba-yu.html   (719 words)

  
 flag of Sarajevo Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
The new flag and Coat of Arms are supposedly adopted sometime in 1999, and are reported seen in use on flags in Sarajevo during summer 1999.
Also, the two abolished functions are removed from the list of presons that may use the Coat of Arms on their letterheads, and finally they are also removed from the right that the flag be hoisted on buildings where they offices are.
That is the new Coat of Arms, adopted and confirmed by the contitutional court.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/ba-sa.html   (1248 words)

  
 Western Bosnia (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The Western Bosnia is a region around the town of Bihac, a Muslim enclave which was surounded on three sides with Croatian Serbs' Krajina, and on east with Bosnian Serb held teritory.
The flag is based on the contemporary flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with honeybee as a symbol of prosperity.
Western Bosnia was an enclave in north-western part of BandH, surrounded by Serb held territory in BandH and Croatia, around the towns of Bihac and Velika Kladusa.
flagspot.net /flags/ba_apzb.html   (1368 words)

  
 Tuzla Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In the geometric center of the flag there is the Coat of Arms of TK with additional eight stars set on the same circular path as the stars in the Coat of Arms, thus four stars towards top and four towards bottom of the flag.
Most notably, I was informed that the outline of coat of arms and the crown are golden/yellow, rather than greenish as on Velid's image (but I have once seen it for a short second on TV and it might think that it was green).
Some minor details of the coat of arms (size of squares and crescent, shape of the castle and "commas") are no doubt due to the artistic redention - I have no official image of the coat of arms, so I might presume that Velid's is more precise.
www.buschauer.dynip.com /fotw/flags/ba-tp.html   (1210 words)

  
 Herzegovina - Neretva Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The coat of arms of HNK is a golden bordered blue shield with three white wavy stripes and light blue chief with golden nine-pointed star.
The flag was a horizontal triband of Spanish type clue-white-blue with the arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina (fleur de lys and bend) offcentered towads the hoist.
He claims that this is an "unofficial variant of a flag proposed for the flag of Herzegovina-Neretva county" of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ba-hn.html   (551 words)

  
 The FAME: Brcko District
Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brčko Distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine
The District of Brčko was left out of the entity structure of post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, the status to be resolved by international arbitration at a later point.
The coat of arms used by Serb administration of the community had red-blue-white Serb tricolour made so that it makes the geographical map of Brcko region, where blue is representing the confluence of the river Brka into Sava.
zeljko-heimer-fame.from.hr /descr/ba-brcko.html   (343 words)

  
 The FAME: Tuzla Canton - Communities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The flag is in use whiet with the coat of arms in the middle topped with the name of the town.
In 1996 Gračanica adopted a different coat of arms based on a bend similar to the previous coat of arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The flag is vertical tricolour green-white-blue, the middle stripe being of double width, with the coat of arms in the middle.
jagor.srce.hr /fame/descr/ba-03-1.html   (195 words)

  
 State Arms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Unlike the majority of the socialistic republics that had incorporated their traditional coat of arms in the new emblem, Macedonia has adopted a new landscape design, falling in the same category with People's Republics of Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia.
This was mainly based on the works and research of Professor Aleksandar Matkovski, published in its book "Coat of Arms of Macedonia" His resurch has shown that the traditional arms of Macedonia apperas to be the golden lion, traced down to the Armory of Korenic- Neoric dating 1595.
The most acceptable design was of Miroslav Grcev, professor of architecture, based on the traditional coat of arms of Macedonia.
heraldry.mol.com.mk /state_arms.htm   (497 words)

  
 NATO/SFOR Informer: History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The kings of Naples were a part of the Anjou family, a junior branch of the French royal family, and bore a slightly different coat of arms.
From 1580 the region of Bosnia became ruled through the administration of pashadom, a decision that recognized the Bosnian entity, including all of modern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and some parts of Slavonia, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Serbia.
After the Vienna War (1683-1699) Bosnia became the western province of the Ottoman Empire, and the Karlowitz treaty (1699) confirmed the historical borders of Bosnia on the north, west and south.
www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/119/p03a/t0103a.htm   (826 words)

  
 [Projekat Rastko - Banja Luka] Svetlana rakic: Icons in Bosnia & Herzegovina 16-19th century
Many icons from Bosnia have been destroyed or damaged in the recent war, some of them were moved to other Serbian churches in safer places, while a few have remained at their original locations.
They were imported to Bosnia and Herzegovina throughout the whole creative period of the Cretan School, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
The collections of icons from Serbian churches in Bosnia and Herzegovina before the recent war were very heterogeneous and, as a rule, contained specimens of both Serbian and foreign post-Byzantine icon painting.
www.rastko.org.yu /rastko-bl/umetnost/likovne/srakic-ikone/srakic-ikone_bih_e.html   (9497 words)

  
 The FAME: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia on 05-APR-1992, and removed the socialist attribute from the name.
After the fragile cease-fire and many attempts of the international community to find a solution, finally the country was divided in two 'entities' by the Dayton agreement: Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosniak and Croat part, divided in 10 cantons/counties), and Serb Republic (Serb part, unitary state).
Coat of arms was adopted on 20th May 1998, and is based on the flag design.
zeljko-heimer-fame.from.hr /descr/ba.html   (418 words)

  
 Croats in BiH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bosnia and Herzegovina is full of very interesting, mysterious tombstone monuments called stechak.
Her grave in the Aracoeli church in Rome had a Croatian Cyrillic inscription until 1590 (with the coat of arms of the old Bosnian Kingdom and of the Kosaca family), when it had been replaced by translation into Latin.
Vlatko Kupreskic, martyrdom in Bosnia and in the Hague
www.hr /darko/etf/et02.html   (9733 words)

  
 Information about U.N. (New York) FDC: 33¢ Bosnia and Herzegovina: Flags of the U. N. Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
For his coat of arms, King Stjepan Tomas (1443-1461) chose a blue shield with a white diagonal stripe separating six golden fleurs de lis -- recalling dynastic connections with the rulers of France.
Following the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 1992, this handsome coat of arms was revived and appeared against a white background in the center of the nation's new flag.
On May 20, 1998, the Office of the High Representative established Bosnia and Herzegovina's new coat of arms, which is based on the flag.
www.unicover.com /EA1BAOU1.HTM   (448 words)

  
 Definition of Capljina - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Čapljina is a town and the seat of its municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is located in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity.
The municipal coat of arms contains the Croatian chequy, the nearby Roman villa Mogorjelo, and Saint Francis Assisi.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Capljina   (247 words)

  
 PIC - Annex on Citizenship and Travel Documents
The text of items a), c) and d) shall be printed in the Bosnian or Croat language for passports of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued to persons mentioned under d), as chosen by the applicant for the passport.
The undersigned will use all their authority with their parties that the two draft Laws will be adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the date decided in the cover document.
It is understood that the Citizenship laws of the Entities shall regulate the issue of changing Entity Citizenship of Citizens of BiH resident abroad in accordance with the Law on Citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
www.ohr.int /print?content_id=5186   (537 words)

  
 Slavonski Brod-Posavina County (Croatia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In the middle there is the arms of county: Azure, wavy bar Argent, over it seven mullets Or 4-3, and under a marten Argent.
The erros were the number of stars (should be 5 in total, not 7) and the colour of the running marten (should be yellow, not white).
The new image of the Coat of Arms (and eventually new flag image) is based on the picture of the Coat of Arms from just few days ago issued 2nd book of the Croatian encyclopedia (Hrvatska encikopedija, LZ Miroslav Krleza, Zagreb, 1999-, sv.
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/hr-sb.html   (288 words)

  
 Maddy's Treasure Chest - Horse Coins
The 1996 coin is the third of the Horse series, and it has a majestic Hanoverian Horse on the front and the coat of arms for Bosnia and Herzegovina on the back.
The 1995 coin is the second of the Horse series, and it has a refined English Hack Horse on the front and the coat of arms for Bosnia and Herzegovina on the back.
The 1994 coin is the first of the Horse series, and it has a Lipizzaner Stallion on the front and the coat of arms for Bosnia and Herzegovina on the back.
maddys-treasure.com /onlineshop/horse_coins.htm   (1560 words)

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