Bakar
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- See also: Abu Bakar
Bakar (Italian: Buccari) is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county in western Croatia, population 1,566 (2001), total municipality population 7,773 with 90% declaring themselves Croats (2001). Old part of the city is situated on a hill overlooking the Bay of Bakar.
[edit] Coat of arms
Bakar was granted coat of arms together with civic rights in 1799 by Empress Maria Theresa. The coat of arms was granted in artistic style typical for the period with a cartouche with large landscapes and ornamentations around the shield within a circular inscription.
Its coat of arms features a checkered top with three local castles and an anchor colored in black on the bottom. The checkered red and white are at the top, the dark blue sky, the green grass and the grey-bricked castles are in the middle and the orange part is at the bottom.
Bakar is also a Croatian word for copper.
| edit | Municipalities of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County |  |
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| Bakar | Baška | Brod Moravice | Cres | Crikvenica | Čabar | Čavle | Delnice | Dobrinj | Fužine | Jelenje | Kastav | Klana | Kostrena | Kraljevica | Krk | Lokve | Lovran | Mali Lošinj | Malinska-Dubašnica | Matulji | Mošćenička Draga | Mrkopalj | Novi Vinodolski | Omišalj | Opatija | Punat | Rab | Ravna Gora | Rijeka | Skrad | Vinodolska | Viškovo | Vrbnik | Vrbovsko | ||
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