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Rovišće (Municipality, Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia)

Flag of Rovišće - Image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009

Presentation of Rovišće
Flag of Rovišće
Coat of arms of Rovišće

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Presentation of Rovišće

The Municipality of Rovišće is located some 10 km west of Bjelovar along the main road to Zagreb. It has about 5,000 inhabitants, about 1,250 live in the main settlement of the same name.

Željko Heimer, 8 June 2007

Flag of Rovišće

The flag (image, no longer online) is in proportions 1:2, blue with the coat of arms in the middle.

Željko Heimer & Ivan Grbac, 15 August 2009

Coat of arms of Rovišće

Coat of arms of Rovišće - Image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2006

The coat of arms (municipal website) is "Azure on a mount vert in sinister a guardsman stantant clad in jacket purpure, white trousers, red cap and jacket facings, belt with gear proper and holding an upright long rifle, in dexter a tree grove proper and in between a corn ear or, in canton checky gules and argent, 5 x 5, and in chief sinister two oak leaves vert, inscribed in base sinister '1232' and over the canton '1993'. Encircled with a golden triple wattle bearing the inscription, above OPČINA and below ROVIŠĆE".
The guardsman reminds on the traditions from the period of the Military Frontier. Year 1232 is when Rovišće (Royoha) was first mentioned in a document by Herzog Koloman, King of Slavonia. At the time it was a county center and several sessions of the Slavonian nobility assembly were held there until the end of the 15th century. After the liberation of Slavonia from the Turks, the settlement loses its importance and became mere a village. Year 1993 is when the municipality was established.
This emblem was probably rejected by the central authorities and is in unofficial use, as is the flag.

Željko Heimer, 8 June 2007