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Ravna Gora (Municipality, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia)

Flag of Ravna Gora - Image by Željko Heimer, 7 December 2009

Presentation of Ravna Gora
Flag of Ravna Gora
Coat of arms of Ravna Gora
Ceremonial symbols of Ravna Gora
Former symbols of Ravna Gora (1993)

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Presentation of Ravna Gora

Ravna Gora is a municipality located some 50 km east of Rijeka on the Rijeka-Zagreb road, approximately half way between Delnice and Vrbovsko. The municipality has about 3,000 inhabitants, just about 2,000 of them living in the main town with the same name.
"Ravna Gora" means something like "a flat topped mountain or hill", and it is a very frequent name in the wider region. There is a mountain north-west of Požega named Ravna gora, there are at least two more mountains in Bosnia and Herzegovina fof the same name, but maybe is best known Ravna gora on the border between Serbia and Montenegro, where the core of the Četnik Movement was formed.

Željko Heimer, 13 August 2003

Flag of Ravna Gora

The symbols of Ravna Gora are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Općine Ravna Gora, adopted on 20 May 1995 by the Municipality Assembly and published only on 10 December 1999 (probably after approval by the Ministry of Administration) in the County official gazette Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, No. 26.

The Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Ravna Gora, adopted in 2001, consolidated in 2006 and updated in 2009, describe the symbols.

The symbols were designed by the Heraldic Art d.o.o. company, from Rijeka.

The flag is in proportions 1:2, light blue with the coat of arms in the middle.

Željko Heimer, 7 December 2009

Coat of arms of Ravna Gora

Coat of arms of Ravna Gora - Image by Željko Heimer, 7 December 2009

The coat of arms is "Azure a village argent roofed gules beneath a rocky mountain argent issuant from a base vert on which is a bar or and in chief dexter a sun or and in sinister a crescent argent", a modernization of the historical coat of arms.
The Decision calls the shield "Croatian", as opposed to the "Hungarian" shield used on the ceremonial symbols.

Željko Heimer, 13 August 2003

Ceremonial symbols of Ravna Gora

Ceremonial flag and arms of Ravna Gora - Images by Željko Heimer, 7 December 2009

The ceremonial flag is in proportions 1:2, light blue with the ceremonial coat of arms in the centre.
The ceremonial coat of arms, in "Hungarian" style, is a simplification of the "baroque" shield used in the historical arms.

Željko Heimer, 7 December 2009

Former symbols of Ravna Gora (1993)

Former flag and (historical) arms of Ravna Gora - Images by Željko Heimer, 7 December 2009

The former symbols of Ravna Gora are prescribed in the 1993 Municipality Statutes.
The flag is light blue with the historical seal in the middle. The town was granted Royal Free Market rights in 1785 by Emperor Joseph II, together with a coat of arms. The style of the coat of arms, shown by Oštrić [osg02], was similar to others granted in the period, with coat of arms in a cartouche surrounded with a white ring to form a seal, all within a baroque allegorical scene.

Željko Heimer, 28 August 2003