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Montana | Монтана province (Bulgaria)

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City of Montana
Berkovitza
Boychinovtsi
Brusartsi
Chiprovtsi
Georgi Damyanovo
Lom
Medkovets
Valchedram
Varshets
Yakimovo

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Subnational Flags (Bulgaria)
Bulgaria

City of Montana

image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

The city of Montana is the capital of the province of Montana. Up to 1891 it was the village of Golyama Kutlovica; after its proclamation as a town in 1891 it was renamed after the Bulgarian monarch Ferdinand; in the 1945-1993 period it was Mihaylovgrad after the name of a local communist hero; since 1993 it has been Montana after the castrum from the Roman age.

In October 1935 the municipal council adopted the coat of arms and the flag of Montana (then Ferdinand) after the design of Nikola Litonov, a local artist. The flag is white over sky-blue with the national tricolour in the canton. The meaning of the flag is explained as follows: the white is for peace and diligence; the sky-blue for "civil devotion to king, nation and fatherland"; the tricolour is "a mark of affiliation and fidelity to our Fatherland – Bulgaria". The source of that information is "Traditions in the Local Self-government", an article by Rayna Antonova from the Montana Historical Museum, published at http://www.montana.bg/town/obshtinata/rantonova-museum.php.
During the communist period this flag was not used, but maybe a couple of years ago, it was readopted. I saw it together with other municipal flags in an exhibition of local authorities, which took place in Plovdiv last May. Besides that, this may have been the first municipal flag in Bulgaria; it is also the only one without a logo or coat of arms.
Stoyan Antonov, 10 August 2005

Photo of flag:
https://www.montana.bg
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

Detail of arms

image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024
Source: https://www.montana.bg

Berkovitza

images by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

A green flag with the arms centered above the name.
Photo: https://www.berkovitsa.bg
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

Boychinovtsi

image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

A white flag with the arms centered above the name.
Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

Brusartsi

images by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

A pale pink flag with the arms centered.
Photos:
https://www.vratzadnes.com/it/19486174.html
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

Chiprovtsi

image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024

A white flag with the arms centered.
Photo: https://www.espressonews.bg
Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024

Georgi Damyanovo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024

A vertical white flag with the arms centered above the name.
Photo: https://www.facebook.com/EkoTour1
Tomislav Šipek, 14 June 2024

Lom

images by Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

A blue flag with the arms centered above the name.
Photos:
https://bnr.bg/vidin
https://www.bta.bg
https://www.mont-press.com
Tomislav Šipek, 13 June 2024

Earlier flag

image by Stoyan Antonov, 21 October 2007