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 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 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.
Ive Prčić: Bunjevačke narodne pisme (Bunjevac folk poems), Subotica, 1939.
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
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