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by Zeljko Heimer, 18 March 2002
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by Pascal Vagnat, 30 January 2004
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from <www.bpkgo.ba>
The website of the Bosansko-Podrinski kanton <www.bpkgo.ba>, shows a
different coat of arms than the one Zeljko reported. The flag of
the kanton has two vertical stripes blue-yellow with the coat of
arms in the middle. Proportions 1:2.
You can see it as a table flag on a photo of the site (<www.bpkgo.ba/images/18_septembar/sl10.jpg>)
The website unfortunately gives us only a law about the
seal of the kanton.
Here is a reconstruction of the flag. I don't know if the
blue of the coat of arms is darker than the blue stripe of the
flag.
Pascal Vagnat, 30 January 2004
It seems that in al the documents there (including the
constitution) the full name of the canton is
"Bosansko-podrinjski kanton Gorazde" at least since
1997. To the best of my knowlage, the other cantons do not
include the name of the capital in their official name in this
way.
Could there be a Bosansko-podrinjski in a nother canton and this
is the way to make the disctinction ?
Marc Pasquin, 31 January 2004
No, I don't think that his is the case, but surely, this
canton is not the only one that is situated in Bosnian Podrinje
(Podrinje means region along Drina river), most of the eastern
Republic of Srpska is situated in Bosnian Podrinje, of course,
since Drina forms its eastern border. The canton nr. 3., that of
Tuzla might also have claim for the name (and was once called
"Tuzlansko-podrinjski kanton", but since changed name
to "Tuzlanski kanton" only). In a way it may also be
kind of distinction from the Canton 2 - Bosnian- Posavina Canton
(Posavski kanton) that also uses (used?) the same abberviation
BPK.
In any case it is Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Gorazde now.
Zeljko Heimer, 31 January 2004
Goraz<dansko-podrinjski kanton (Canton of Gorazde and
Podrinje), the name of the region near Drina river - border river
through most of its course towards FR Yugoslavia)
Zeljko Heimer, 9 December 1999
Gorazde Kanton is now named Bosansko Podrinjski Kanton,
capital is still Gorazde.
Adrian Sramek, 9 July 2001
I am not sure how precise this information is. Some time ago
the canton (the Canton V, as it is know by numerical notation)
had (proposed?) name of Gorazdansko-podrinjski (or similar), but
the reference to Podrinje (region near Drina river, the border
river between Yugoslavia and B&H) was dropped after
objections (by whom?) that the canton does not reach Drina river
at all. If I am not much mistaken on the last ellections it was
still named Gorazde canton (or
Gorazdanski kanton, if you prefer).
I shall not rule out the possibility that some new changes were
made recently, but we shall need some more precise information
for that...
Zeljko Heimer, 9 July 2001
According to governmental web pages of the Federation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the present canton name is: 5. Bosnian
Podrinje (former Gorazde-Podrinje).
Jan Zrzavy, 17 July 2001
A visitor of my FAME pages sent me an image of the CoA of
Bosankso- podrinjski kanton (Canton nr. 5, initially called also
Gorazdansko-podrinjski kanton, but I think the BPK name might be
official now), and he described the flag as "similar to SDA
green-white-green flag in which the initials are replaced by the
CoA".
The coat of arms is obviously based on the previous CoA of
Bosnia, the well known fleur-de-lis CoA. The golden ornament in
the white bend is, I guess, nothing more then an ornament, though
it might be based on the representation of the historical f-d-l
arms in some of the famous armorials. The three flowers in the
lower part are, I guess, again from some historical source, the
lilies made more naturally. The helmet issuing from the band
might be from the same period (12th century?). The helm as well
as the colouring of the upper part are extremly unheraldical,
unfortunately.
Zeljko Heimer, 18 March 2002
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by Zeljko Heimer, 18 March 2002
