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Historic coat of arms of (central) Croatia. Symbol of Croats.

First CoA's of Croatia were with the white square first. In heraldry the first means the rightmost in reality (where your right arm points). Description (blason) is checquy argent and gules (NOT gules and argent). For the majority of time the order were as stated here. Interesting text [1]. When applying the rule of the right hand we can always repeat the same pattern. In cases where the number of the squares (of every row) is even starting (rightmost) square would be white and ending (leftmost) square would be red. When odd number of squares is in question we have either white rightmost and white leftmost or red rightmost and red leftmost square. There is even a testimony of Nikša Stančić that he has ommited that rule to the first president of Croatia (after the fall of the Berlin wall) in order not to make difficult the choice to then president Franjo Tuđman (which decided that the modern CoA would have first and fifth square red).

For the version with the first red square, see this file.

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current08:04, 7 May 2011Thumbnail for version as of 08:04, 7 May 2011654 × 700 (8 KB)Starčevićanac (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 09:11, 4 April 2011
15:23, 6 April 2011Thumbnail for version as of 15:23, 6 April 2011654 × 700 (7 KB)High Contrast (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 03:50, 4 April 2011
09:11, 4 April 2011Thumbnail for version as of 09:11, 4 April 2011654 × 700 (8 KB)Starčevićanac (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 00:21, 14 January 2008
03:50, 4 April 2011Thumbnail for version as of 03:50, 4 April 2011654 × 700 (7 KB)Rjecina2 (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 10:54, 30 March 2006
00:21, 14 January 2008Thumbnail for version as of 00:21, 14 January 2008654 × 700 (8 KB)Rainman (talk | contribs)First CoA's of Croatia were with the white square first. In heraldry the first means the rightmost in reality (where ''your'' right arm points). Description (blason) is checquy argent and gules (NOT gules and argent). For the majority of time the order we
10:54, 30 March 2006Thumbnail for version as of 10:54, 30 March 2006654 × 700 (7 KB)Neoneo13 (talk | contribs)Historic coat of arms of (central) Croatia. Symbol of Croats.

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