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Page created: 1st October 2000 Last updated: 4th December 2011
The FAME is a site devoted to the systematic and scientific study of flags and coats of arms. Such symbols often bear strong political and other messages. Inclusion of those symbols here does not mean that the author supports or approves of the ideas they may stand for.	This site is harvested for the NSK digital archives.

Map of the Bjelovar and Bilogora County.

Bjelovar and Bilogora County - Communities

Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija - općine

1. Berek
2. Dežanovac
3. Đulovac
4. Hercegovac
5. Ivanska
6. Kapela
   • Kapela, variants
7. Končanica
8. Nova Rača
9. Rovišće
10. Severin
11. Sirač
12. Šandrovac
13. Štefanje
14. Velika Pisanica
15. Velika Trnovitica
16. Veliki Grđevac
    • Veliki Grđevac, ca. 1995
17. Veliko Trojstvo
    • Veliko Trojstvo, ca. 1995
18. Zrinski Topolovac

The regulations on the local flags in Croatia require that a flag of a city or community be of a field of one colour with the coat of arms in the middle or offset towards hoist. Most of the communities follow this rule.
In the reform of 1997 four new communities - Severin, Šandrovac, V. Trnovitica and Zrinski Toplovac - were formed from parts of other communities.

• Bjelovar and Bilogora County
• Croatia - Counties
• Croatia

Berek

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The coat of arms of Berek is or a wheel proper and in the chief a rose gules. These emblems refer to two local legends. The rose stands for the noble Ružica (Rosey), daughter of the duke Milovuk and duchess Milica, lords of the city of Garić (Garigh, 12th c.), who managed to save her father from the dungeons of Jelen-grad. The wheel stands for the legend from the period of feudal labour duties: a stone found mercy to the hard labours of serfs and draught animals and broke apart to enable easier passage for them (Pukli kamen - split stone, locality in vicinity). The flag is blue with the coat of arms in its centre.

Dežanovac

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The coat of arms of Dežanovac is vert a glass argent between two columns or. The glass refers to the glassworks established in 1804 in Ivanovo Polje, being one of the first industrial objects in the region. The columns remind to the manor of the Drašković family in Dežanovac, preserved only in the two columns today being part of another building. The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in its centre.

Đulovac

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The coat of arms of Đulovac is or a castle with two towers gules on a base vert and in the chief a dove displayed argent haloed or. The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered goden in its centre. The designer explains his choice of symbols so: "the castle symbolizes the nobility arms of Count Julije Janković of Daruvar, the founder of Đulovac (Julaves), but also the medieval fort of Stupčanica (1330). The haloed dove symbolizes the parish church of the Holy Spirit in Đulovac."

Hercegovac

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The coat of arms of Hercegovac is vert a (potato?) flower argent seeded or. The flag is dark green with the coat of arms bordered golden in the middle.

Ivanska

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The coat of arms of Ivanska is argent a bonfire inflamed proper and on a border vert twelve daisies also argent seeded or. The bonfire refers both to the name of the community and its patron St. John Baptist. The daisies (Croatian ivančica) are also canting the name. The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle.

Kapela

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The coat of arms of Kapela is quartered first and fourth gules, second argent a Latin cross sable in bend, and third vert a corn ear or issuant. The coat of arms is used in several variants, possibly none official. In the flag it is used in version with the red cross in bend, on the yellow flag field.

Kapela, variants

Flag unknown.

A variant used in 2007 includes an upright red Latin cross and a church on a green hill in the white quarter and the shield is surrounded with a golden ribbon bearing the name of the community. In 2009 a similar variant with silver ribbon, but the black cross in bend is used.

Nova Rača

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The coat of arms of Nova Rača is or a crescent below a round high tower with loophooles on the first two and a window on the third floor with a dome topped with a Maltese cross all azure in the border of the last twelve mullets of the first. The central shield represents Nova Rača and the twelve stars represent the other twelve villages of the community. The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle. The ceremonial flag is a blue gonfalon with three triangularly ending tails edged yellow and with golden tassels with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the middle, the name of the community in two rows above and an oak branch and a garb of ears in saltire below it.

Rovišće

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The coat of arms in use by Rovišće is azure on a mount vert in sinister a guardsman stantant clead in jacket purpure, white trourses, red cap and jacket facings, belt with gear proper and holding an upright long rifle, in dexter a tree grove proper and in between a corn ear or, in canton chequy gules and argent, 5×5, and in chief sinister two oak leaves vert, inscribed in base sinister 1232 and over the canton 1993. Encircled with a goledn tripple wattle bearing inscription above OPĆINA and below ROVIŠĆE.
The guardsman reminds on the traditions from the period of Military Frontier. The year 1232 is when Rovišće (Royoha) was first mentioned in a document by herzog Koloman, king of Slavonia. At the period it was a county center and several sessions of Slavonian nobility assembly was held there until the end of 15th century. After the liberation of Slavonia from the Turks, the setllement loses its importance and becomes mere a village. The year 1993 is when the community was established.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms in the middle. These emblems are rejected by the central authorities and are in unofficial use.

Severin

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The coat of arms depicts a wooden fort on a green mound over a blue streem crossed by a wooden bridge, and behind the fort a chequy red and yellow sun is riaising, infront of it a white dove flies holding a blue buch of grapes in its beak. The flag is light green with the coat of arms in the centre of it, inscribed "Općina" above and "Severin" below in Old English font. The ceremonial flag is a yellow bordered green gonfalon ending with tails with yellow fringe along the bottom, in the middle of it is the coat of arms bordered yellow, above it inscription "Općina" below in an arch "Severin". It seems that a triangularly versoion as a table flag is used. The Old English font should be equal as used on the locally prodiced Severin whiskey. However, it is almost certainly that these symbols are not approved by the Ministry of Administration and are thus unofficial.

In 1997 the Community of Severin was formed seceding from the Community of Nova Rača.

Sirač

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The coat of arms of Sirač is azure on a massoned wall argent issuant a cannon on a lafette or and in chief a fleur-de-lis of the second. The flag is light blue with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the middle. The designer explained his choice of symbols so: "The fleur de lis symbolizes the parish church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1334) in the market-place (opiddum) Sirač. The cannon and the walls symbolize the medieval feudal stone castle of Sirač (Zirch), and since 1542 the Turkish border fortress (Sirče)."

Šandrovac

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The coat of arms of Šandrovac is argent four mullets of eight gules with the base ray enlarged, one and two and one. The charges represent presumably the blazing stars or comets. The flag is blue with the golden bordered coat of arms in the middle.

In 1997 the Community of Šandrovac was formed seceding from the Community of Veliko Trojstvo.

Velika Trnovitica

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The coat of arms of Velika Trnovitica is azure a bell or and in the chief a thorn branch fesswise sable. The bell stands for the local school, its bell from 1759 is preserved displayed in the village. The thorn (Croatian trn) branch cants the name and the medieval parish of St. Martin in Thorns recorded in 1501 at this site. The flag is green with the coat of arms bordered yellow in its centre.

In 1997 the Community of Velika Trnovitca was formed seceding from the Community of Hrecegovac.

Veliki Grđevac

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The coat of arms of Veliki Grđevac is azure an otter or holding in its mouth a fish argent standing on a mill wheel of the last. The flag is light blue with the coat of arms in the middle. The mill-wheel is a reference to the writer Mato Lovrak, born in Veliki Grđevac, he is one of the most popular Croatian writers for youth, and one of the most popular of his novels takes part in a mill outside Grđevac.

Veliki Grđevac, ca. 1995

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms previosuly used by Veliki Grđevac is composed of the Croatian chequy fields, a red field with two corn ears and two oak leaves and the blue filed with the caste on a green hill between two godlen stars and two golden bars inscribed GORDOWA, the old name of the town. In the middle is a green shiled with initials VG.

Veliko Trojstvo

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The coat of arms of Veliko Trojstvo is canting the name meaning Trinity: azure on a base of clouds on the dexter sitting Chirst clead gules and holding a cross on sinister Father clead vert holding a sceptre and in the chief a dove displayed argent all haloed or. This is heraldrification of the vitraj in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Veliko Trojstvo. The flag is green with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the middle. The ceremonial flag is a green gonfalon with three triangularly ending tails with tassels and the vine ornaments, with the coat of arms in the centre of it topped with the name of the community. The table flag is vertical green flag ending triangularly, with the coat of arms in the middle, the name of the community above and branches of oak and vine below it.

Veliko Trojstvo, ca. 1995

Flag unknown.

The before the adoption of the current symbols the community used this quasi-heraldic emblem.

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