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Jasenice (Municipality, Zadar County, Croatia)

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

Presentation of Jasenice
Flag of Jasenice
Coat of arms of Jasenice
Ceremonial flag of Jasenice

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Presentation of Jasenice

Jasenice Gracac is situated about 40 km north-east of Zadar inlands towards the Velebit mountains from the Novigrad sea, where the new highway passes by the Sveti Rok tunnel under the Mali Alan mountain top. It has over 1,300 inhabtants, 1,200 of them in the place of the same name.
The place was much destroyed in the bombing and rocketing from the Velebit positions held by rebel Serbs in the 1990s war.

Željko Heimer, 18 August 2006

Flag of Jasenice

The symbols of Jasenice (coat of arms and ceremonial flag, municipal website) are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Općine Jasenice, adopted on 9 June 2000 by the Municipality Council and published in the County official gazette Službeni glasnik Zadarske županije.
The symbols are described in the Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Jasenice, adopted on 25 January 2006 by the Municipality Council and published on 1 February 2006 in Službeni glasnik Zadarske županije, No. 3. This is repeated in the current Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Jasenice, adopted on 22 July 2009 by the Municipality Council and published on 19 August 2009 in Službeni glasnik Zadarske županije, No. 16 (text).

The symbols were designed by the Heraldic Art d.o.o. company, from Rijeka.

The flag, not described in the legal texts and unconfirmed in practice, is in proportions 1:2, light blue with the coat of arms, bordered yellow, in the middle.

Željko Heimer, 8 November 2009

Coat of arms of Jasenice

Coat of arms of Jasenice - Image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009

The coat of arms is "Azure Vila Velebita holding in her right hand a degenia flower".
Vila Velebita (the Fay of Velebit) is the mythical patron of the Velebit mountain range; in this coat of arms she is holding a Velebit endemic flower (Degenia velebitica), also found in the coat of arms of the Lika-Senj County.

Željko Heimer, 18 August 2006

Ceremonial flag of Jasenice

Ceremonial flag of Jasenice - Image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009

The ceremonial flag, the only flag prescribed in legal texts, is a blue vertical flag, with the coat of arms offset towards bottom, surrounded with four degenia flower ornaments and four square tails, all edged with a thing yellow border. The municipality name is placed above the coat of arms.

Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009