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Tearce (Municipality, Macedonia)

Теарце, Tearcë

Flag of Tearce - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 18 June 2006

Presentation of Tearce
Municipal flag of Tearce
Village of Pršovce / Përshefcë

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Presentation of Tearce

The bilingual municipality of Tearce (Macedonian name) / Tearcë (Albanian name) (22,454 inhabitants; 136.54 sq. km) is made of the town of the same name and of the 12 settlements of Brezno, Varvara, Glogji, Dobrošte, Jelošnik, Lešok, Neproštelo, Nerašte, Odri, Prvce, Pršovce and Slatino.

Ivan Sache, 8 August 2006

Flag of Tearce

The flag of Tearce is shown on the municipal website.
The odd colour of the field of the flag, a lavender/white gradient, might be a graphical effect (a scanning artifact increased by later conversions and resamplings) not present on the real flag.

Emblem of Tearce - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 June 2006

Valentin Poposki, Eugene Ipavec, Željko Heimer & António Martins, 19 June 2006

Village of Pršovce / Përshefcë

Flag of Pršovce - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 December 2008

Population of the village was 2,516 in 2002, nearly all the inhabitants being ethnic Albanians. This is reflected by the local name of the village, Përshefcë, and the use of the national Albanian flag in several instances, as can be seen on photos available on a local website.
That website has a page dedicated to local symbols, showing flags and a few more emblems, not labelled as flags.

The village flag, horizontally divided green-white-yellow, and shown with proportions 5:9, is described as follows:
Malin e gjelbërt, në veshjen kombëtare sidhe plisin të bardhë, ne fushat tona qe janë plotë me grurë te artë.
With the help of Albi Qeli's online dictionary, the explanation of the colours seems to be the following:
- Green represents the mountains
- White is the main colour of the national dress
- Yellow represents the countryside, especially the golden, ripe grain fields.

Flag of KFJP football club - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 December 2008

The flag of the football club "KF Jehona Përshefcë", blue with the club's badge in the middle, shown with proportions 1:2, is described as follows:
Klubi parimisht ka luajtur me fanella në ngyrën kaltër, pastaj e kemi të vendosurë një stemë të klubit me ngyrat e fshatit sidhe nje fytyrë qe symbolizonë Jehonën, viti 1996 është themelimi i klubit.
With the same caveat emptor, it seems to say that blue is the jersey colour of the club (or was, now they seem to play with green jerseys with white vertical stripes and yellow collar, thus using the village colours), 1996 its foundation date, and the emblem in the middle shows "Jehona's face". Jehona is an Albanian feminine name meaning "echo"; the woman represented on the badge might be the nymph Echo.

Flag of Pršovce folkloric society - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 December 2008

The flag of the folkloric society "Shka 'Jehona' Përshefcë" is diagonally divided red-black by a thin yellow ascending diagonal, with the name of the society in white letters in a semi-circular pattern, placed above three music instruments, a string and wind instruments crossed per saltire above a drum. It is described as follows:
Ngyrat e kombësisë, sidhe në instrumente të cillat përdoren në kët lami.
The string instrument is a çiftelia, traditionally used in northern Albania and Kosovo. Usually made of cherry tree bark, the instrument has two strings (çiftë, "couple"; tel, "string").
The wind instrument is most probably a zurna, a double-reed instrument of Turkish orign.
The drum may be a lodra, a double-headed drum of Turkish origin, mostly known as davul.

Valentin Poposki & Ivan Sache, 7 December 2008