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Page created: 1st January 2006 Last updated: 16th May 2009	This page is under construction! Links and images might be missing! Data presented on this page may be entirely incorrect!
The FAME is a site devoted to the systematic and scientific study of flags and coats of arms. Such symbols often bear strong political and other messages. Inclusion of those symbols here does not mean that the author supports or approves of the ideas they may stand for.	This site is harvested for the NSK digital archives.

Croatia - Medieval flags

• Metković, 14th century
• Senj, 14th century
• Šibenik, 14th century

This page is indended to show flags used on the teritorry of modern Croatia and surroundings used in medieval times that are preserved mostly as drawings on the old geografic maps.

• Croatia - Historical Flags
• Croatia

Metković, 14th century

The map by Angelino Dulcert of 1339 (preserved in the National Library in Paris) showes the flags on the on the main ports in Mediteranean Sea. The flag shown for the city of Narent - today Drijeva near Metković (although Drijeva is today over the border in Bosnia and Herzegovina) is shown as being blue and white quartered. The flag is probably based on description and depiction from the book "Libro del conoscimiento de todos los Reynos" by a Franciscan friar born in Spain in 1305, which is considered among the oldest books systematically showing flags of the world.

Senj, 14th century

The map by Angelino Dulcert of 1339 (preserved in the National Library in Paris) showes the flags on the on the main ports in Mediteranean Sea. The map pictures a flag in characteristic shape - rectangular with a concave tail and fringe, vertically divided itno a red and a yellow field, the first containing a yellow star. The same flag, sometimes shown with a yellow disk instead of the star, which is probably an error in copying of the drawing from one to an other source, appears on several other maps of the period and it is probably based on description and depiction from the book "Libro del conoscimiento de todos los Reynos" by a Franciscan friar born in Spain in 1305, which is considered among the oldest books systematically showing flags of the world. Tomović depicts the flag in standard rectangular shape. The flag is showing the armorial emblems of the counts of Frankapan who ruled Senj between 1271 and 1469. Isaić (2001) mentions the prescription from the 14th century statutes of Senj determining that a ship that enters the port without showing its flag shall be financially fined.

Šibenik, 14th century

The map by Angelino Dulcert of 1339 (preserved in the National Library in Paris) showes the flags on the on the main ports in Mediteranean Sea. The map pictures a flag in characteristic shape - rectangular with a concave tail and fringe with a yellow fields containing a large white disk with a red cross throughout of it. The same flag appears on several other maps of the period and it is probably based on description and depiction from the book "Libro del conoscimiento de todos los Reynos" by a Franciscan friar born in Spain in 1305, which is considered among the oldest books systematically showing flags fo the world. Tomović depicts the flag in standard rectangular shape.

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