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Pale-Prača (Municipality, Bosnian Podrinje Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Flag of Pale-Prača, two versions
Left, as prescribed - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 June 2011;
Right, as reported in use - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 3 December 2009

Presentation of Pale-Prača
Flag of Pale-Prača
Coat of arms of Pale-Prača

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Presentation of Pale-Prača

The Municipality of Pale-Prača, often know as Prača, the seat of the administration, is formed by the smaller part of the previous municipality of Pale, which was for its larger part granted to Republika Srpska by the Dayton Peace Accords.

Željko Heimer, 25 June 2011

Flag of Pale-Prača

The symbols of Pale-Prača are described in the Municipal Statutes Statut Općine Pale-Prača, adopted on 20 December 2007 by the Municipal Assembly and published in the Canton official gazette Službene novine Bosansko-podrinjskog kantona Goražde, No. 19 (2007) and No. 11 (2008).
The Populari database claims that the arms were adopted in 1999.

The flag of Pale-Prača (photo) is horizontally divided green-white with the coat of arms in the middle. Further details of the flag (proportions, size of the coat of arms in it, etc.) are not mentioned in the Statutes.

A variant (photo, photo) of the flag with the shield tan instead of azure is in use.

Aleksandar Nemet & Željko Heimer, 19 December 2012

Coat of arms of Pale-Prača

Coat of arms of Pale-Prača, two versions
Left, as prescribed - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 June 2011;
Right, as reported in use - Image by Eugene Ipavec (right), 3 December 2009

The coat of arms is "Azure a bend argent between two triangles argent and a mullet or over a bend wavy argent set in a shield-shaped crowned golden cartouche".
The shield design emanates the presentation of the arms from the Fojnica Armorial. The silver bend represent a sword (actually the element is named "sword" in the text of the Statutes, as if that would be the name for this heraldic charge) and the main road M-5 passing through the municipality, the two triangles represent the dominating peaks of Klek and Crni Vrh, the wavy line represents river Prača and the star shows the position of the town of Prača on it.

The description in the Statutes clearly names the color of the central shield as blue; however, some drawings show the shield colored tan.

Željko Heimer, 25 June 2011