I made this from the original I got from our second cousin Mile Vranesic in Stojdraga. The form itself of the coat of arms is in fact quite archaic, and truly reminiscent of the 16th or even 15th century. In other words the heraldic details are still quite mediaeval. This is apparent also in the colour design, which is reduced, due to the possibilities of the time. The black crow (or raven) is logical, since "vrana" means "crow", with a possible overtone from "gavran" which means "raven" - the root is the same in both words (i.e. "-vran-"). In Russian, "vrana" through what is called "full pronunciation" (polnoglasije) becomes "vorona", and there is an extremely large number of Russian names that have the same root in them (e.g. Voronin, Voronskij, etc.). And strangely enough most of these are noble names, with more or less black crows in their arms. There is also the case of Mathias (= Mathew, in Croatian "Matija") Corvin, a Hungarian and Croatian king in the 15th century who had a black crow on his arms, since in Latin the word for crow is "corvus".