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

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 around 1903), Mazuranicev trg 14

Croatian coat of arms on the main building of the Croatian Railway, Zagreb, 1903, Mihanoviceva 12

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

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)

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

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

The First Zagreb Fair, 1910, one of the earliest ones in Europe.

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

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

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)

Calendar from 1917, kept in the City Museum of Zagreb.

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

Stjepan Radic on a scarf from 1920s

From the funeral of Stjepan Radic, 1928, Zagreb, killed 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

Logo of Matica hrvatska (Matrix Croatica) in 1927

A badge of Croatian Reading Room in Zacretje (Sveti Kriz near Zagreb), 1878-1928

Hrvatski sokol (Croatian Falcon Sports Society), city of Karlovac, 1929

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 hrvatskog zmaja), Zagreb, 1930
Croatian History Museum

Amblem of the Druzba hrvatskog zmaja (Brethern of Croatian Dragon), founded in 1905

A detail from the tree of Croatian Nobility within Družba hrvatskog zmaja (Brethern of Croatian Dragon)

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1928

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

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 Peasant Society, a flag from 1938

Croatian Peasant Society, a flag from 1938

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

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.

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

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

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

Coat of arms of the Republic of Croatia, description

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