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Kamanje (Municipality, Karlovac County, Croatia)

Flag of Kamanje - Image by Željko Heimer, 18 September 2005

Presentation of Kamanje
Flag of Kamanje
Coat of arms of Kamanje

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Presentation of Kamanje

The municipality of Kamanje is located some 30 km north-west of Karlovac, where river Kupa at its north edge makes its last kilometer, forming the border with Slovenia and turning inland into Croatia.
Kamanje is among the youngest municipalities in Croatia formed by a minor administrative reform in 2003, seceeding from Žakanje.

Željko Heimer, 18 September 2005

Flag of Kamanje

The symbols of Kamanje are prescribed by Decision Odluka o zastavi i grbu općine Kamanje, adopted by the Municipality Assembly on 27 August 2004 and published in the Municipality official gazette Glasnik općine Kamanje, No. 3.
Damir Mateljan, Mayor of Kamanje, reported in 2005 that the symbols had not been approved by the central authorities. However, the current Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Kamanje, adopted by the Municipality Assembly on 14 July 2009 and published in Glasnik općine Kamanje, No. 3, include the description of the symbols as in the 2004 Decision. The previous Statutes, Statut Općine Kamanje, published in 2005 in Glasnik općine Kamanje, No. 13, might have included it as well.

The symbols were designed by Alfred Krupa, an academic painter from Karlovac.

The flag is in proportions 1:2, blue with the coat of arms in the middle.

Željko Heimer, 24 December 2009

Coat of arms of Kamanje

Coat of arms of Kamanje - Image by Željko Heimer, 18 September 2005

The coat of arms of Kamanje is "Or a conjoined double bendlet wavy azure in the chief a Neolithic vase between a mullet and a crescent increscent and in the base seven lozenges one between sinister three in bend dexter three in bend sinister all also azure".
The Neolithic vase was found in Kamanje in the Vrlovci Cave, dated 2500 BCE, preserved from the so-called Lasinja Neolithic culture, about 9 cm in height. The wavy bends symbolize river Kupa while the star and crescent are traditional parts of the coats of arms in the region. The seven lozenges stand for the seven settlements forming the municipality.

Željko Heimer, 24 December 2009