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image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
The city of Montana is the capital of the province of Montana. Up to 1891 it was
the village of Golyama Kutlovica; after its proclamation as a town in 1891 it
was renamed after the Bulgarian monarch Ferdinand; in the 1945-1993 period it
was Mihaylovgrad after the name of a local communist hero; since 1993 it has been
Montana after the castrum from the Roman age.
In October 1935 the municipal council adopted the coat of arms and the flag of
Montana (then Ferdinand) after the design of Nikola Litonov, a local artist. The
flag is white over sky-blue with the national tricolour in the canton. The
meaning of the flag is explained as follows: the white is for peace and
diligence; the sky-blue for "civil devotion to king, nation and fatherland"; the
tricolour is "a mark of affiliation and fidelity to our Fatherland – Bulgaria".
The source of that information is "Traditions in the Local
Self-government", an
article by Rayna Antonova from the Montana Historical Museum, published at
http://www.montana.bg/town/obshtinata/rantonova-museum.php.
During the communist period this flag was not used, but maybe a couple of years
ago, it was readopted. I saw it together with other municipal flags in an
exhibition of local authorities, which took place in Plovdiv last May. Besides
that, this may have been the first municipal flag in Bulgaria; it is also the
only one without a logo or coat of arms.
Stoyan Antonov, 10 August 2005
Photo of flag:
https://www.montana.bg
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
Source:
https://www.montana.bg
images by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
A green flag with the arms centered above the name.
Photo:
https://www.berkovitsa.bg
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
A white flag with the arms centered above the name.
Photo:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
images by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
A pale pink flag with the arms centered.
Photos:
https://www.vratzadnes.com/it/19486174.html
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
A white flag with the arms centered.
Photo:
https://www.espressonews.bg
Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
A vertical white flag with the arms centered above the name.
Photo:
https://www.facebook.com/EkoTour1
Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
images by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
A blue flag with the arms centered above the name.
Photos:
https://bnr.bg/vidin
https://www.bta.bg
https://www.mont-press.com
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
image by Stoyan Antonov, 21 October 2007
image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
A white vertical flag with the arms centered.
Photo:
https://bsp.bg/news/
Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
A white flag with the arms centered.
Photo:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
A pale blue flag with the arms centered.
Photo:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024
A light blue flag with the arms centered.
Photo:
https://bnr.bg/vidin
Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024