Croatian Coat of Arms
during centuries
Darko Zubrinic, Zagreb, 2005
- until 1600
- 1600-1800
- 1800-1900
- 1900 until today
- References
A
detail from memorial-book of participators of
the First Croatian Savings Bank general meetings 1900-1904
source:
Jozo Ivanovic, Croatian
State Archives,
2006, ISBN 953-6005-78-6
Croatian
Working Society Progress (Hrvatsko
Radničko Društvo Napredak), Kotor
1901
From the front cover page of Stolačko
kulturno proljeće,
Godišnjak za povijest i kulturu, god. VII., 2009.
Croatian
tamburitza
players in Kotor in 1901
Left
half of a postcard from 1901 with Coat of
Arms of United Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia
Ethnographic
Museum
Zagreb (detail from the
building built in 1902-1903), architect Vjekoslav Bastl,
Mažuranićev
trg 14, Zagreb
with coats of arms of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia
Trgovačko-obrtni muzej, a od 1919 Etnografski muzej; arhitekt Vjekoslav Bastl,
Mažuranićev
trg 14, Zagreb
Source of the above two photos: Vjekoslav Bastl
Trgovačko-obrtni muzej 1902.-1903., a od 1919. Etnografski Muzej u
Zagrebu; pojedinost sa stropa
dvorane na prvom katu
Croatian
coat of arms on the main building of
the Croatian
Railway, Zagreb, 1903,
Mihanoviceva 12
Vitezović, Croatian monthley dedicated to heraldic studies, Zagreb 1903, edited by Emilij Laszowski. Source [Galović]
Decorated
clay furnace (detail), with the Coat
of Arms of United Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia,
beginning of 20th century, town of Krapina near Zagreb
Greeting card from 1904: Hrvatska Hrvatom! (Croatia to the Croats)
Razglednica
iz Zagreba upućena Milanu
Šufflayu
1905., izvor [Darko
Sagrak]
Razglednice
Zagreba s početka 20. st. upućene Milanu
Šufflayu,
izvor [Darko
Sagrak]
Diploma
issued by the Union of Croatian Falcon
Societies to the Crotian Falcon of Belovar, Zagreb 1906
Croatian
Reading Room, Odzak 1906
(now in BiH)
Details
from Hrvatsko kolo,
1906,
journal published by Matica hrvatska (Matrix Croatica)
Nevio Šetić: O periodičkom tisku za hrvatsku mladež u Istri početkom XX. stoljeća [PDF], ČSP, br. 1, 249-293.
Honorable
Diploma from the Exhibition of Ilok
products and cattle in Zagreb in 1906
Flag
of the University
of
Zagreb from 1907
Napredak,
Hrvatski narodni kalendar za 1907.,
Sarajevo (detail from the cover page),
source [Maric,
Pregled...]
Croatian
coats of arms, 1907, in the Greek Catholic
church of Sv. Antun Pustinjak (St.
Anthony the Eremite)
in the village of Kast, Zumberak,
Croatia;
many thanks to Mons. Mile Vranesic, Zeljko Pajic (Sosice Dean), Rev.
Milan Stipic,
and to Mr. Vlatko Bilic for useful information.
Very
nice Coat of Arms of Zumberak
A
small barrel for wine with Croatian coat of
arms, 1907, Zumberak,
Museum of the Basilian Nunnery in Sosice
The
town of Karlovac and its Korana river spa,
(coat of arms of the town of Karlovac on the front page)
printed in Zagreb, 1908.
Cup
with Croatian coat of arms, 19th century
Picture
of Josip (Joseph) Mikulec
in possession of Dr.
Ante Cuvalo, Chicago
A detail on his breast: Croatian
Coat of Arms
Croatian
adventurer Josip (Joseph) Mikulec
set out to circumnavigate the globe on foot in the span of five
years.
With the start of this journey he became a perpetual wanderer.
Mostly
hiking, he traveled the world some 28 years and achieved a degree of
fame
for having collected more than 30,000 autographs of world-famous
people.
Joseph Mikulec
with Croatian Coat of Arms.
Croatia Coat of Arms carved in stone 1909, in the village of Višnjica of the Ledinac parish, south of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Carved by Ivan Zadro according to the sketch of his brother Nikola Zadro, professor of history in Banja Luka and in Zagreb.
Source of the photo Milka Tica: Stećci od Zgošće do Ledinca, naklada Jurčić, Zagreb 2011. Many thanks to prof. Milka Tica for permission.
Croatian
Bokelj Music in 1910 in Kotor
(source: Milos Milosevic, Tripo
Schubert: Tri hrvatska glazbenika i skladatelja, Hrvatska revija, 2,
Zagreb 2007, pp. 49-58)
Croatian Educational Society "Zrinski
- Frankopan",
Hrvatski prosvjetni klub "Zrinski - Frankopan"
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, founded in 1910, photo from 1918.
Note the young tamburitzans
and the Croatian
flag on the right.
Society
"Ljudevit Gaj" in Rijeka and Susak
(detail), 1910
Zagreb,
1910. Notice the flag Zagrebacke
gospodje - Zagreb Ladies.
Kept in the Zagreb
City Museum
Nevio Šetić: O periodičkom tisku za hrvatsku mladež u Istri
početkom XX. stoljeća [PDF],
ČSP, br. 1, 249-293.
The
First Zagreb Fair, 1910, one of the
earliest ones in Europe.
Jeka (Echo), Croatian emigrant calendar 1910. Source [Carmen Verlichak Vrljičak,
Hrvati u
Argentini, p 56]
Sports
society Croatian Falcon (Hrvatski
sokol), Krapina, 1911,
on the occasion of blessing of the flag of the society (detail)
Honorary
diploma of the Croatian Falcon Society
from 1911. On the left below the City of Dubrovnik.
Kept in the Zagreb
City Museum.
A
detail from the title page of Vjekoslav
Klaic's "Povjest Hrvata" (History of the Croats), Zagreb, 1911
2nd All Falcon Meeting in Zagreb 1911
2nd All Falcon Meeting in Zagreb 1911
Zemljopisni
atlas (Geographical atlas), Zagreb
1912
The
Karlovac Water Supply, 1914
National
Gazette, New York, 1908
(the first Croatian daily newspaper in America; Croatian coat of arms
on the right)
Application
for membership in Croatian
Community of Illinois, USA, 1911
Zora
- The Dawn, Croatian newspaper in
Australia, Auckland, 1914
A
painting of the Liverpool camp in Australia
by a Croatian intenee during his internement there in 1916, ie in the
course the First World War. Coats of arms represent Dalmatia, Croatia
and Bosnia, with the text below "Zivila Hrvatska" (Long live Croatia).
Potos from [Sutalo,
pp 70-71]
Australia,
1916
Hrvatsko kulturno društvo Napredak (Croatian Cultural Society
Progress) from the village of Gornja Lastva
in Boka kotorska, 1919
Kolendar
(Calender), New York, issued by
Croatian printing and publishing company,1921
University
Library, Zagreb, built in 1913,
now Croatian State Archives
University
Library, Zagreb, built in 1913,
now Croatian State
Archives (HDA); a detail from
the main hall (with kind permission
of HDA)
Ivo Kerdić: Medal of the Society of Hrvatski Sokol (Croatian
Falcon) 1914.
Ivo Kerdić: Medal of Croatian Home-Guard, 1915 (Hrvatska domobranska
pješadija, 26. pukovnija)
Calendar
from 1917, kept in the City
Museum of Zagreb.
Dol na Hvaru (Dol on the island of Hvar), Croatia, a monument to the
victims of the First World War.
Photo by A. Orsini, source Mladen Klemenčić
University
of Zagreb Medical School, Department
of anatomy
Flag
of the Croatian Educational Catholic
Female Society
(Hrvatsko prosvjetno katoličko žensko društvo) in Karlovac,
1919,
See Lucija Benyovsky: Društvo Katarina grofica Zrinski,
Hrvatska
revija, no. 3, 2007, 86-100
Napredak,
Hrvatski narodni kalendar za 1922.,
Sarajevo (a detail from the cover page),
source [Maric,
Pregled...]
Competition
of Croatian Falcon Societies in
Zagreb (Hrvatski sokol), 1925
Ivo Kerdić: Medal of Hrvatski Sokol (Croatian Falcon), 1925
Ivo Kerdić: Medal for the Croatian Falcon, representing Croatian King Tomislav from 925 AD (on the occasion of 1000 years), 1925
Stjepan
Radic
on
a scarf from 1920s
From
the funeral of Stjepan
Radic, 1928, Zagreb,
assassinated in
the Parliament of Yugoslavia in
Belgrade
Diploma
issued by the Croatian Falcon
Federation to the Coratian Falcon Society in Bjelovar, Zagreb 1925
Coat
of Arms of Dr. Gjuro Kumicic, 1926, by the
rescript of the Brothers of Croatian Dragon.
Left below in the flag is the mountain of Sisol in Istria, in
South-West of Croatia.
Kept in the City
Museum of Zagreb
Badge
of Hrvatski sokol in Ilok
(Croatian Falcon in Ilok, sports society), 1906-1926, disappeared from
the Museum of the town of Ilok during the Serbian 1991-1997 occupation
of this Croatian town on Danube river. Source: Museum of the town of Ilok.
Logo
of Matica hrvatska (Matrix Croatica) in
1927
Ivo Kerdić: Medal of Ksaver Šandor Đalski, Croatian writer,
1927
A
badge of Croatian Reading Room in Začretje
(Sveti Križ near Zagreb), 1878-1928
Ivo Kerdić: Medal of Croatian politician Stjepan
Radić, made on the
occasion of his assassination
in the Yugoslav parliament in Belgrade in 1928.
Hrvatski
sokol (Croatian Falcon Sports
Society), city of Karlovac, 1929
Hrvatski sokol (Croatian Falcon) Osijek, 1929, source
Hrvatsko
kulturno društvo "Napredak"
1902.-1927.
Napredak,
Hrvatski narodni kalendar za 1929.,
Sarajevo (a detail from the cover page),
source [Maric,
Pregled...]
Flag
of the Brethren of the Croatian Dragon (Družba braće hrvatskog zmaja),
Zagreb, 1930
Croatian
History Museum
Coat
of Amrs of the Brethren of the Croatian
Dragon (Družba braće hrvatskog zmaja)
Amblem
of the Druzba hrvatskog zmaja
(Brethern of Croatian
Dragon) in their building in Zagreb (Kamenita vrata), founded in 1905
A
detail from the tree of Croatian Nobility
within Družba
hrvatskog zmaja (Brethern of
Croatian Dragon)
1910
1916
1919
1929
1920
1928
Hrvatska
Žena (Croatian Woman) society, Branch
1 of Chicago founded on January 27, 1929. Another 18 branches were
founded throughout the United States supporting churches, schools,
charities and cultural programs as well as the American military during
World War II. Source Vladimir Novak.
Hrvatska
žena, ustrojena 27. siječnja 1929,
Chicago ILL.
Croatian Woman, founded on January 27, 1929, Chicago ILL., source www.cuvalo.net
Hrvatska
žena, grana br. 1, Chicago, 1929-2009
Croatian Woman, branch #1, Chicago, 80th Anniversary, source www.cuvalo.net
Croatian
Coat of Arms on a flag of the fire
station in the village of Osekovo in 1930, in the region of Moslavina,
west of Zagreb;
source Mandica Svirac (ed.): Lepa
ti je Moslavina,
Krscanska sadasnjost, Zagreb 1998., ISBN 978-953-151-209-4
Crkva Majke Božje Sljemenske - Kraljice Hrvata, Zagreb 1932, ceiling
(detail)
The church is not far from the top of the mountain of Medvednica near
Zagreb.
Detail from the ceiling of the church of Majka Božja Sljemenska -
Kraljice Hrvata, Zagreb, 1932.
Architect Juraj Denzler, with participation of Croatian
artists: Radoje Hudoklin, Vanja Radauš, Josip
Turkalj,
Marta Plazzeriano, Gabrijel Stupica etc.
Majka Božja Sljemenska - Kraljica Hrvata, Zagreb 1932, a detail from
the wall
Ivo Kerdić: Medal of Ivan Šarić, Archbishop of Sarajevo, 1932
Hrvatski
radisa, Zlatne ruke Krizevaca,
published in 1934 (from the title page)
Croatian
Cultural Jubilees in the town of
Vinkovci, 1937
Croatian
coat of arms on the City Hall of the
town of Trogir with two verses of Croatian Anthem,
placed in 1935, removed by fascists in 1941, placed again thirty years
later in 1971,
removed in 1974, and placed again in 1990!
Trogir
is one of the most beautiful Croatian
cities, and under protection of UNESCO.
Croatian Newspaper and Croatian Venus, 1938
Croatian
Peasant Society, a flag from 1938
Croatian
Peasant Society, a flag from 1938
A
detail from the building of Matica
hrvatskih obrtnika (Matrix of
Croatian Craftsmen),
Zagreb, Ilica
49 (between Frankopanska street and Britanski trg), built in 1938.
Coat
of arms of the Plemenita turopoljska općina
- Noble district of Turopolje
from 1938
Ive
Prčić: Bunjevačke narodne pisme (Bunjevac
folk poems), Subotica, 1939.
Ivo Kerdić: Medal of Banovina Hrvatska (Croatian Banovina), 1940.
Grb ministranata 1940, village of Čuntić, Banija, Croatia
Mila
Wood
(1888-1968): 641-1941, Hrvatska sveta godina - Croatian Sacred Year
(medal)
Croatian Encyclopaedia,
1938-1945
with ligature HE (Hrvatska
Enciklopedija)
Coat
of arms of the Independent State of
Croatia (1941-1945)
Coat
of arms of the Socialist Republic of
Croatia during the ex-Yugoslav
communist
period
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Autograph
of Kristian
Krekovic, pintor croata-peruano,
with Croatian and Peruvian coats of arms
Coat
of Arms of Kristian
Krekovic, composed of centuries
old Coats of Arms of Bosnia (lily)
and Croatia.
Peruvian Coat of Arms is under them. Painted in 1952 during his sojourn
in Peru.
Kristian
Kreković's autoportrait from
1950, made
in Cuzco in Peru, the old capital of Inca Empire.
A
detail from a ceremonial curtain of the Croatian
National Theatre, Zagreb, by
Krsto Hegedusic, 1969
Coat
of arms of the Republic of Croatia (1991)
and of the town of Vukovar
A
detail from a ceremonial curtain of the Croatian
National Theatre, Zagreb, by Ivan Rabuzin
One of our best theoretical physicists was Gaja Alaga (1924-1988), member of the Croatian Nobility from Backa and Bunjevci Croat.
Professor
Gaja Alaga on the left, a member of
Croatian Nobility. Source www.knjiznica.phy.hr
He worked not only in Zagreb, but also at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Berkeley, Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich etc. In 1955, in cooperation with K. Alder from Switzerland, A. Bohr from Denmark and B. Mottelson from the USA, he discovered the so called K-selection rules and intensity rules for beta and gamma transitions in deformed nuclei.
Christmas
1991
Charles
Billich, see source
Zid
boli (Wall
of Pain)
in Zagreb
From the Memorial room dedicated to Croatian defenders of the city of Dubrovnik (the room is in the very centre of Dubrovnik, within the Sponza palace):
Goran
Ivanisevic,
with Croatian Coat of Arms, early 1990s,
during the most brutal Greater-Serbian attacks on Croatia
Storm Operation, 4-8 August 1995
liberation
of parts of Croatia,
in particular of Lika
and Knin, from
Greater-Serbian occupation
ensuring safe connection between Zagreb, Zadar, Sibenik, Split, Dubrovnik,...
liberation of Knin,
Croatian town which never in history was a part of the so called Krajina
deblocade
of the town of Bihac in BiH,
preventing the tragedy greater than that of Srebrenica in 1995
A
stamp issued on the occasion of liberation of
the Croatian town of Knin
during the Storm operation in 1995.
From
the 2005 burial of Croatian defenders of
the city of Vukovar, killed in 1991.
The women in the middle burried the two arms of her husband.
(copyright by Julija Vojkovic)
Don
Petar Vuletic, Catholic priest, painter and
poet, worked among Croats in Los Angeles (died in 1998).
This portrait made by Srecko Kriste is kept in Ravno,
in Eastern Herzegovina, not far from Dubrovnik.
Croatian
team won the 2005 Davis Cup Tournament
in the final match with Slovakia in Bratislava.
This is one of the greatest achievements in the history of Croatian sport.
Janica
Kostelic,
winning the 2006 Women Alpine Ski World Cup super-G race in Bad
Kleinkircheheim
(photo by Ruters/Calle Teornstroem)
Glen
Boss with Croatian Coat of Arms, riding on
the famous mare Makybe Diva, owned by Tony
Santic, Australia
Photo
by Wayne Taylor
David
Diehl, New York Giants,
2008, photo from CROWN
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Kimono Croatia worn in honour of Croatian ambassador Stambuk's birthday
Tokamachi factor, a paradigm for Japan-Croatia emotional attachement
The winning silk kimono named Croatia has been made in Tokamachi in the memory of the Croatian national football team's presence during the World Cup 2002 in Japan. The Mayor's daughter has worn it for the Croatian ambassador's birthday.
For
more details see Kimono Croatia
Photo by the courtesy of Dr.
Drago Štambuk, ambassador of the Republic of Croatia in
Japan.
Ivan
Mestrovic's
St. Jerome in front of the Croatian Embassy, Washington DC, USA
Cravate,
photo from www.croata.hr
Grb
Primorsko-Goranske županije
Croatian
Parliament - Hrvatski Sabor,
Zagreb
with an old Croatian coat of arms
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Coat of arms of the Republic of Croatia, description
- until 1600
- 1600-1800
- 1800-1900
- 1900 until today
- References
Croatia - its History, Culture and Science