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Cepin is a community in the Osijek and Baranja County, 10 km
south-west of Osjiek, actually being
a suburbia of the city. With almost 13,000 inhabitants, 9,500 in
the settlement of the same name. Since 128th cnetury it was seat
of the lands of the Adamovic Cepinski family (Adamovich de
Csepin). The community is among the biggest producers of
sunflower, maize and corn, and has a large (food) oil factory.
The coat of arms of the community is shown on an independent
on-line site <www.cepinonline.com>
and Ivan Grbac, from Argentina got info from the webmaster on the
flag.
The coat of arms is: azure a sunflower or seeded vert and in base
a crescent increscent argent.
The flag is light blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in
the centre.
The sunflower symbolizes, naturally, the sunflower production and
the sunflower oil, main product of the community. The crescent
and the blue background of the coat of arms are derived from the
family arms of Adamovic family that was: azure a lion or rampant
sinister standing on a crescent argent and propping of a collum
of the same issuant from the crescent and in the chief sinister a
mullet or.
Željko Heimer, 25 August 2008
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image by Željko Heimer, 25 August 2008