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Mostar (Municipality, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Flag of Mostar, horizontal and vertical versions - Images by Željko Heimer, 24 June 2011

Presentation of Mostar
Flag of Mostar
Coat of arms of Mostar
"Western" Mostar (1990s)

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Presentation of Mostar

Mostar was in the early 1990s wartime divided into an eastern, Bosniak town and a western, Croat town.
In 1995, following the Dayton Peace Accords, Mostar was organized as a complex of six Civic Municipalities, eventually merged in 2004 into a single municipality named Town of Mostar.

Željko Heimer, 19 May 2004

Flag of Mostar

The symbols of Mostar ar prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Grada Mostara, published in 2003 in the Town official gazette Gradski službeni glasnik Grada Mostara, No. 5.
Decision Odluka o uporabi i zaštiti imena, grba i zastave Grada Mostara, adopted on 27 October 2006 by the Municipal Council and published in the Municipality official gazette Službeni glasnik Grada Mostara, No. 12 (text in Bosnian, in Croatian) determining the rules of use and penalties for misuse of the symbols. Article 21 prescribes that:

The use of the coat of arms and of the flag of the Town is free in artistic creations and for educational purposes, provided that it is not against good taste, social and moral norms, heraldic practice, tradition and this Decision.

The symbols are provisioned in Article 4.3 of the Town Statutes Statut Grada Mostara, imposed on 28 January 2004 by the Office of the High Representative and published in Gradski službeni glasnik Grada Mostara, No. 4, as follows:

The Town has a coat of arms, a flag and other symbols, the design of which is determined with a separate Decision that is to be adopted by the 2/3 majority of the votes of the elected Town Councillors.

The flag (municipal website, photos no longer online) is in proportions 1:2, white with a gray diagonal stripe and the coat of arms in the middle.
The flag is shown in a number of places, but the size and exact positioning of the silver/gray diagonal stripe and the size of the coat of arms are not clear; the horizontal version appears to be with the falling diagonal, while the vertical version appears to be with a raising east-west diagonal.

Aleksandar Nemet & Željko Heimer, 19 May 2004

Coat of arms of Mostar

Coat of arms of Mostar - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 May 2004

The coat of arms (municipal website) is blue with a representation of the Mostar bridge over river Neretva.

Željko Heimer, 19 May 2004

"Western" Mostar (1990s)

Flag of "Western" Mostar - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 May 2004

The Croat administration of the western part of Mostar used a flag in proportions 1:2, red with a white cross throughout and the coat of arms in the middle.
The coat of arms is in a shield of medieval shape (with a notch), "Argent three bendlets gules overall a Latin cross or," surmounted with a golden crown; below the shield is a ribbon inscribed with date "1452". This is based on the coat of arms of the Hrvatinić family, medieval rulers of Mostar, whose most famous member was Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić.

Željko Heimer, 19 May 2004