Tag: Rijeka

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On Flags of Football Clubs at the Conference in Rijeka on 8 September 2023

President of HGZD Željko Heimer and Željko Ševerdija, a member of HGZD from Rijeka, held a presentation on the flags and symbols of football clubs from Croatia that participated in the highest level of national club competitions (i.e. in the premiere league), in Rijeka on September 8, 2023 at conference “Football Day through a legal, […]

Ćus Rukonić Book Promotion in Rijeka

After the presentation in Cres and Mali Lošinj last month, Jasminka Ćus Rukonić’s monograph “heraldic Heritage of the Cres-Lošinj Islands” was presented in Rijeka on 6 July 2023. The presentation was held in the beautiful Marble Hall, the so-called The Governor’s Palace, or the Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral, Rijeka. At the […]

Exhibition of the Rijeka flag in the LC Pećine, 12 April 2023

Riječke zastave u MO Pećine

The exhibition “Rijeka Flags Through History and Today” by Željko Heimer was opened in the Pećine Local Committee. The incentive for the systematic research of the city flag came from the Association of the Free State of Rijeka, which for years supported the initiative for the city to receive a historical tricolor as the official […]

Željko Heimer’s book presented in Zagreb: ‘The Rijeka tricolor becomes an integral part of the Croatian identity’

(Translated from https://www.novilist.hr/rijeka-regija/rijeka/nova-knjiga-dr-sc-zeljka-heimera-u-monografiji-iznio-argumente-o-povijesnoj-rijeckoj-trobojnici/ dš, 18 November 2022, Rijeka danas, Rijeka.) In the seat of the Brotherhood of the Croatian Dragon Society in Tower above the Stone Gates in Zagreb, a book by Lt-Colonel Dr. Željko Heimer FLAGS OF RIJEKA – A MONOGRAPH OF TWO CENTURIES OF THE CITY’S STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHT TO ITS FLAG […]

New book by Dr. Heimer: In his monograph, he presented arguments about the historical Rijeka tricolor

(Translated from https://www.novilist.hr/rijeka-regija/rijeka/nova-knjiga-dr-sc-zeljka-heimera-u-monografiji-iznio-argumente-o-povijesnoj-rijeckoj-trobojnici/ author Jakov Kršovnik, September 2, 2022, Novi list, Rijeka, photos by Ana Križanec) The historical flag today is not the official flag of the City, but the ceremonial flag of the City of Rijeka: a tricolor of horizontal stripes of dark carmine, golden yellow and ultramarin I think that this unique Rijeka […]

Post-Congress Vexilological Event – Rijeka 2022

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 […]

New Book on Flags of Rijeka

After several years of studying, publishing several scholarly papers, and participating a few international conferences with the topic as well as giving a few public lectures in Rijeka, HGZD president Željko Heimer unified his research of the city flag and various other flags used and still in use in the city on the Riječina river. […]

»Grb i zastava« № 31 Issued

The № 31 of »Grb i zastava« was printed, in its Volume XVI, soon to be posted to subscriber addresses. Additional copies of the GiZ you may order from Leykam International. We copy here from the »Editorial«: Dear Reader, I hope you are still well and healthy. It appears that the consequences of pandemic, earthquakes, […]

World Vexillology Day and the 15th HGZD Anniversary Marked During the 6th Congress of Croatian Historians in Rijeka

6. kongres hrvatskih povjesničara Rijeka 1.10.2021.

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

XXVI Convegno nazionale di vessillologia, Brescia, 11 - 12 settembre 2021

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 […]