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Page created: 18th November 1996 Last updated: 27th June 2010
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.

Slovenia - Communities, part 17 (Šma-Trz)

• Šmarješke Toplice #
• Šmartno ob Paki *
• Šmartno pri Litiji ++
• Šoštanj *
• Štore *
• Tabor +
• Tišina +
• Tolmin °
  • Tolmin, 1982
• Trbovlje °
  • Trbovlje, 198x – 199x
• Trebnje °
  • Trebnje, proposal 1997
• Trnovska vas +
• Trzin +

Legend:
° communities formed before 1990's
* communities formed in 1995
+ communities formed in 1998
++ communities formed in 2000
M civic communities since 1998

• Slovenia - Communities
• Slovenia

Šmarješke Toplice

2:5

The coat of arms of Šmarješke police is per fess vert and azure ovrall a cross argent ensigned with a jar or. The flag is a banner of arms, i.e. the same design in rectangular form. The vertical flag is also existent, with the design properly rotated.

The Community of Šmarješke Toplice was separated from the community of Novo mesto in 2006.

Šmartno ob Paki

1:2

The coat of arms of Šmartno is per bend Azure and Gules overall a Goose Argent flying to sinister. The flag is blue-white-blue vertically divided triband with the coat of arms in the middle.

Šmartno pri Litiji

2:5

The coat of arms of Šmartno pri Litiji is per pale sable and gules and overall St. Martin giving his cloak to a beggar all argent. The picture in the coat of arms is taken from the portal of the local church. The flag is red with a black stripe at hoist and the icon near it. The vertical version of the flag has the black stripe in the base and the icon moved downwards, also. The black field in the symbols is a reference to historical coal mines in the region.

Šoštanj

1:2

The coat of arms of Šoštanj is per pale Or an Eagle Sable displayed dimidiated beaked, langued and membered Gules and Argent on a Mount Vert three Heart-shaped stones Gules piled up one and two. The flag is defined primarly for verticasl use: vertically divided in red and white with the coat of arms set in the lower part of the upper half. On the horizontal flag the coat of arms is set in the middle.

Štore

2:5~

The coat of arms is Or an underlined Roman numeral 'VI.' above two hammers in saltire all Azure. The flag has a blue third at hoist and green two thirds at fly in the middle of which is the coat of arms. The number six reminds to the 6th century when the place was settled as the mining village.

Tabor

2:5

The coat of arms is Azure on a base Vert a massoned wall Argent and above a bell Or topped with a ribbon Argent crossed Gules throughout. The name of the main settlement after whom the community is also named comes from the general term tabor meaning a fortified encircling wall. The wall after whom it is named was built around the church of St. George as protection from Turkish raids. Therefore it is easy to read the symbols in the coat of arms - walls around the church of St. George - red cross on a white field is known as the cross of St. George. The flag is blue in common Slovenian communities' ratio 2:5 with two vertical stripes of white and the middle blue field being square containing the bell and the ribbon from the coat of arms.

The community seceded from the community of Žalec, and is not the same as the community of Tabor that merged with surrounding community to form the (municipal) community of Maribor.

Tišina

2:5

The coat of arms is per fess wavy or three chestnut leaves vert and of the last two corn ears in saltire embowed of the first. The flag is yellow with the green central stripe broken off in the middle forming a square yellow field containing three green chestnut leaves.

Tolmin

1:2

The coat of arms of Tolmin honours the serf uprising from 1713, the year inscribed in the shield of, so called, Polish shape. The shield is per fess embattled Gules a Fire Or and Sable a curving creek Azure and farmers' tools Argent. The coat of arms is set in canton of a light blue-greenish flag. The official ratio of the flag was not established, but in practice it conformed to 1:2.
Among the natural features in the community is Tolminska korita or also called Dantejeva jama (Dante's Pit) that it is deemed that it was inspiration for the description of the hell for the famous poet. Incidentaly or not, the coat of arms does remind somewhat to depiction of the hell, as well...

Tolmin, 1982

1:2

The varioations of the coat of arms and the flag used earler differ somewhat in the shield shape and the shade of the blue field. Even today the flags and coats of arms in use show some variations in design, e.g. including a voided flame and by using the neutral blue shade.

Trbovlje

1:2

The coat of arms pictures symbols of mining industry, horizontally divided in upper light blue field with black industrial skyline and lower green field, and overall a black mining wagon.
The flag is virtuously designed based on the coat of arms. The blue-black-green stripes are of widths seven, one and four, respectively, and the heap of coal is 6 units wide and 2 units high, as much as it is from the fly to the heap.

Trbovlje, 198x – 199x

No flag.

The originally adopted coat of arms symbolises the industry and the revolutionary past.

Trebnje

1:2~

The coat of arms used traditionally is Counter-changed Azure and Vert per fess, per fess wavy and a pale and overall a Lion sejant sinister Or. Theis symbol is considered depreciated and the community begun process of adopting new symbols in 1997, however, until now nothing is yet adopted. However, when necessarily, the community still uses this coat of arms, and when needed in flag form, it is set in the middle of white flag - recorded in use both as table flags and as real size flags.
In January 2009 the Community of Trebnje adopted the coat of arms and the flag, however, the drawings were not released. The decision describe arms bascially the same as used prevbiously, with yellow lines fimbriating the fields and the shield. The flag prescribed is white 2:5, bordered yellow, with the "attribute from the coat of arms" in the centre of it (however, it is not clear what exactly the attribute is). Horizontal and vertical flags are prescribed. Such coats of arms and flags were not reported in use yet.

Trebnje, proposal 1997

2:3

The original proposal for the coat of arms of Trebnje was cosidered in 1997, per fess vert a gryphon rampant or langued and armed gules and or semee of honeycomb sable. To this was soon added also a piramid per fess argent and vert to represent the anti-tenk block used in the War of Independence in 1991 and a feather gules to represent the local writers. The honeycomp should represent the long tradition of beekeeping in the region and the green field with gryphon is taken from the coat of arms of Lady Hema, a ruler of the region in 11th century. The proposed flag was green over yellow ith the coat of arms in the middle.

Trnovska vas

2:5

The coat of arms is per fess or two fritillaries proper in saltire and purple a grape bunch of the first. The silver border around it is optional. The flag is yellow with the coat of arms set in the middle, appropriately for horizontal or vertical hoisting.

Trzin

1:2

The flower in the coat of arms is called žerjavček or a fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris L., Slov. močvirska logavica/močvirski tulipan). It is shown on a golden shield with five dark red foils with silver dots and black petals and stamens and with five green leaves. This flower appears also on coats of arms and flags of Brezovica and Ig. The flag is dark red over golden yellow bicolour with the coat of arms in the middle.

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