approved, Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Members who can see the literature depository, Administrators, uploader
3,732,226
edits
Omiš: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Origin/meaning
Knorrepoes (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Knorrepoes (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
The arms were officially adopted on December 13, 2002. | The arms were officially adopted on December 13, 2002. | ||
The arms show a cross and a spiked mace. The arms are known from a stone carving dating from 1541 as well as from a Venetian charter dating from 1579, where the colours are mentioned as well. The meaning of the arms probably is to defend Christianity. A new coat of arms was granted to the city in the end of 19th century by the Austrian Ministry of Interior, showing in blue shield two golden rocks, a lion on the dexter and St. George defeating the dragon on the sinister and in the chief a cross staff and a fleury sceptre in saltire, see below.Both arms were supressed during the socialist period and the older one was readopted in 1999 and officially in 2002 | The arms show a cross and a spiked mace. The arms are known from a stone carving dating from 1541 as well as from a Venetian charter dating from 1579, where the colours are mentioned as well. The meaning of the arms probably is to defend Christianity. A new coat of arms was granted to the city in the end of 19th century by the Austrian Ministry of Interior, showing in blue shield two golden rocks, a lion on the dexter and St. George defeating the dragon on the sinister and in the chief a cross staff and a fleury sceptre in saltire, see below. | ||
Both arms were supressed during the socialist period and the older one was readopted in 1999 and officially in 2002. | |||
{|align="center" | {|align="center" | ||