Soon the Parliament Decision: June 5 will be the Croatian Flag Day?
This week, the Croatian Parliament could declare the Croatian flag on June 5, mentioning on June 5, 1848, and the enthronement of Josip Jelacic for the Ban of Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, which directly connects the emergence of the Croatian flag as we know it. That day, for the first time, the Croatian tricolor, red and white and blue, officially obscured.
The proposal came from MP Andre Krstulovic Opara (HDZ), supported by the Parliamentary Committee on Education, and a positive opinion of the Croatian government, so there is no obstacle that the Croatian Parliament does not do the same.
Opara Krstulovic actually renewed the initiative of four institutions to declare the day of the Croatian flag on June 5: the Croatian History Museum (HPM), the Croatian Grboslovni and the Flag Society, the Croatian Institute of History (HIP) and the Society of the Croatian Dragon Brothers.
Jelacic flag as a sample to all the later
Like his predecessors, Ban Jelacic received a rich cavalry flag of the Lastavica tail on the Banska chair, on one side of which was applied to the Three -One Kingdom. Unlike their monochrome red flags, its contemporary national red and white-blue tricolor, on which the Avers (face) was applied the coat of arms of the Kingdom, which became a sample to all later Croatian national and state flags, explains HIP.
Since the spring of 1848. The tricolor, as a Croatian national flag, began to be used massively throughout the Croatian countries at the time.
Prior to that, the Croatian flags were primarily the flags of Croatian bans, there was no unique Croatian flags.
With Jelacic’s enthronement for the ban, there was a change that permanently determined the Croatian national flag, which has since has a special place in the creation and preservation of Croatian national identity.
Jelacic’s tricolor at a session of Parliament on May 30, 1990.
Jelacic’s tricolor, a kind of great -grandfather of the Croatian national and national flag, is kept in the holdings of the Croatian History Museum, and because of its fragility it is rarely exhibited.
It is significant that it was highlighted on May 30, 1990, at the first session of a democratically chosen multi -party council, and her replica afterwards had long been exposed to it.
Supporting that on June 5, the Croatian flag was declared, the Committee for Education states that Croats are one of the few peoples in Europe to have its original first official flag that is not only a historic artefact, but above all a special value. Namely, in the past 170 years there have been several periods in our history in which the tricolor has been banned than the periods in which it was allowed and used.
The Committee also notes that both dates are ‘falling’ for the duration of the school year, which holds a good circumstance to design a suitable curriculum in teaching for all ages.
