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Flag of Dubrava - Image by Željko Heimer, 13 December 2008
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The municipality of Dubrava is located southeast of Vrbovec, some 50 km east of Zagreb (not to be confused with the former Community of Dubrava of the same name, that was part of the Town of Zagreb). Dubrava counts bout 5,500 inhabitants, some 1,300 living in the place of the same name.
Dubrava, mentioned already in 1094 in a charter issued by King Ladislaus, had in the Middle Ages a fortification with nine towers, under the jurisdiction of the Zagreb bishops.
The Parliament of Croatia was held there in 1527, electing John Zapolya (Ivan Zapolja) as the Croatian king (opposed to the Cetingrad Assembly of 1526/27 electing Ferdinand Habsburg as the king, resulting in a long civil war until Zapolya's death in 1540, when Habsburgs prevailed).
Željko Heimer, 13 December 2008
The symbols of Dubrava are described in the current Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Dubrava, adopted on 20 July 2009 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 10 August 2009 in the Zagreb County official gazette Glasnik Zagrebačke županije, No. 20.
The flag is green with the coat of arms, bordered yellow, in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 13 December 2008
The coat of arms of Dubrava is "Azure a deer salient proper over a base vert".
It is based on a seal from 1636. The colored version is shown by Lašovski [lsv39]. The modern version is similar, but not entirely the same as in Lašovski's book.
Željko Heimer, 13 December 2008