A meeting named Post-Congressional Vexilological Event – Rijeka 2022 was held at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Rijeka (UFRI) in cooperation with the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Society (HGZD) on 18 July 2022, as an event following the 29th International Vexilological Congress held in Ljubljana previous week, organized by the Slovenian […]
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HGZD Donated GiZ Set for a New Vexillological Library in Catalonia
During a break between lectures on 12 July 2022 at the 29th International Congress of Vexillology in Ljubljana 2022, Sebastià Herreros, secretary of the Catalan Vexillological Assocation (ACV) handed the FIAV president a letter from the mayor of the Catalan town of Sant Clement de Llobregat, informing the world vexillological community about the renovated library […]
Heimer received BHVS honorary membership certificate
During the 29 International Congress of Vexillology in Ljubljana 11-15 July 2002, HGZD president Željko Heimer received a honorary membership certificate from Alexander Alexiev, chairman of the Bulgarian Heraldic and Vexillological Society (BHVS). Heimer was named a BHVS honorary members already in 2009 for his research of Bulgarian military and civil flags used on seas […]
NAVA 56, St. Augustine, Florida 2022 Annual Meeting
North American Vexillological Assocation (NAVA) held its 56th annual meeting in Saint Augustine, Florida, as a combined personal presence and on-line streaming participants joined through videolinks. The annual meeting in St. Augustine was originally planned as NAVA 54 for 2020, after the 28 International Congress of Vexillology San Antonio, Texas, that was also the NAVA […]
Address to a Seminar in China
President of HGZD, in his role as the FIAV president, answered the invitation of the Vexillological Research Center of China (VRCC, 中国旗帜学研究中心) to address the participants of the First VRCC Flag Suppliers Seminar. The Seminar was held on 8 December 2021 in Chinese city of Zhuji, some sixty kilometers south of Hangzhou, where some of […]
Attending the Flag Institute Annual General Meeting 2022
The president of HGZD and the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FIAV) Heimer participated at the British Flag Institute (FI) Annual General Meeting and Winter Conference, held at the People’s History Museum in Manchester, UK on 20 November 2021. The meeting and conference took place in a hybrid format with on-site and on-line video participation. […]
World Vexillology Day and the 15th HGZD Anniversary Marked During the 6th Congress of Croatian Historians in Rijeka
The World Vexillology Day on 1 October and the 15th Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Assocation (HGZD) Anniversary (2006 – 2021) were marked during the 6th Congress of Croatian Historians in Rijeka between 29 November and 2 october 2021 with the overall topic “Culture”, during the section “Auxilary History Sciences and Source research Practices”. The section moderators […]
Heimer named honorary member of CISV
President of HGZD and FIAV Heimer was named honorary member (Socio d’Onore) of the Italian Center for Vexillological Studies (Centro italiano studi vessillologici, CISV) by the General Assembly of that Italian national vexillological association, during the 26th Italian national vexillological meeting, held on 11 – 12 September 2021 in Brescia. It is a great personal […]
President Heimer at the 7th Czech National Congress of Vexillology, Frýdek-Místek
Czech National Congresses of Vexillology are held every four years since 1996 in another town in Czech Republic. This year the 7th Congress was held in the Moravian-Silesian city of Frýdek-Místek from 4 until 6 September 2020. The FIAV President addressed the Congress participants via vieolink within the Congress opening ceremony on 5 September 2020. […]
‘Deutsche Welle’ Published an Interview with President Heimerom
The German global broadcasting network Deutsche Welle broadcasted on 9 July 2020 a video-call interview with FIAV President Heimer regarding the state flag change issues, initiated with the events rgarding the US state of Mississipii flag change debate. The TV story onthe Mississippi flag was published in their daily news report Der Tag, right after […]