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Page created: 2nd July 2001 Last updated: 25th December 2007	This page is under construction! Links and images might be missing! Data presented on this page may be entirely incorrect!
The FAME is a site devoted to the systematic and scientific study of flags and coats of arms. Such symbols often bear strong political and other messages. Inclusion of those symbols here does not mean that the author supports or approves of the ideas they may stand for.	This site is harvested for the NSK digital archives.

Serbia - Communities

• Arilje
• Beograd
  • Barajevo
  • Čukarica
  • Grocka
  • Lazarevac
  • Lazarevac, ca. 1990
  • Mladenovac
  • Novi Beograd
  • Obrenovac
  • Palilula
  • Palilula, - 2006
  • Rakovica
  • Savski venac
  • Sopot
  • Stari Grad
  • Voždovac
  • Vračar
  • Zemun
  • Zvezdara
• Čajetina
• Despotovac
• Istok
• Jagodina
• Knjaževac
• Kraljevo
• Pećinci
• Požarevac
• Požega
• Ražanj
• Ruma
• Smederevska Palanka
• Stara Pazova
• Subotica
  • Szabadka, 1941-1944
• Surdulica
• Svilajnac
• Štrpce
• Topola
• Vrnjačka Banja
• Velika Plana

• Serbia

Arilje

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The banner of arms of Arilje in western Serbia is composed of shield with Cross of St. Achilles - patron of old church in Arilje. The Blue Pall represents rivers Rzav and Moravica.

Beograd

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The banner of arms of the city of Belgrade shows on Azure a fort Argent on a hill Gules, in base over a two wavy bars Argent a sailing vessel Or with sails Argent and oars Sable. Belgrade is divided into 16 communities.

Čukarica

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The banner of arms of Čukarica was proposed in 1994 by Serb Heraldic Society. The elements of the design show the river Sava, hilly terrain, industry (by the border shape) and agriculture (wheat).

Lazarevac

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The flag of Lazarevac is white with a white cross on a red vertical stripe between two red fleurs-de-lis in the middle an inescutcheon parted per fess vert and sable overall a church argent. It is the church of St. Demetirus, the largest church in the municipality. The green and black stripes refer to the mining industry that is important here. The base of the shield (without the inescutcheon) is the coat of arms attributed in the medieval armorials to Lazar Hrebeljanović - Prince Lazar, after whom the city was named. As with many other modern Serbian civic coats of arms, the coat of arms of Lazarevac exists in three stages: the greater - as shown, the middle with shields topped with a crown and with the name below and the lesser consisting of the shield only.

Lazarevac, ca. 1990

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Lazarevac represents the mining industry, the mining hammers and the coal-digging wheel.

Mladenovac

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The coat of arms is azure and includes an anvil, an oak trefoil and two golden vases pouring water that becomes a bar argent. Mural crown or is topped with a white dove displayed haloed or crossed gules. The supporters are rampant on green grassy compartment on dexter a white horse fully harnessed and dressed with white ensigned double eagle gules holding the flag of Belgrade and on sinister deer gules attired and pierced with an arrow or holding the flag of Mladenovac. In base of the compartment are crossed the quiver ensigned with white double eagle and sheaves of arrows or.
The flag is square, blue with golden oak trefoil and white horizontal stripe near the bottom. As it is the modern practice in Serbian heraldry, the flag is simplification of the charges from the coat of arms.

Novi Beograd

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The greater coat of arms shows an inverted pall as reference to the confluence of the Sava into the Danube. The old Belgrade is shown with its coat of arms in base and the newly built areas of New Belgrade with white billets in red fields. The supporters are swallows as symbols of new settlement, holding the flag of Belgrade and New Belgrade. The mural crown of four embattlements is for large cities. The middle coat of arms is the shield with the crown, and the lesser coat of arms is the shield only. The flag is red with the banner of arms of Beograd in canton fringed white and with three white billets in the lower fly.

Obrenovac

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The flag of Obrenovac is red with a white cross throughout and overall a white panel with a blue sail ship.

Palilula

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Palilula adopted its new symboils based on the previous one. The coat of arms is per fess chief per pale, 1st gules a pipe or, 2nd azure a church or and 3rd argent a pavilion with a key or and a date 1830.. The shield is topped with a golden massoned crown with three merlons ensigned with a lion rampant holding a smithar above its head. Supporters are St. Marc, the Apostole and the Evangelist and St. Stephan, the First-Martir and the Archdiacon, holding the flags of Belgrade and Palilula. They are standing on a green mount with a ribbon inscribed with the names of the community and the saints. The flag of Palilula is a square banner of arms. Beside the greater coat of arms, there is also a middle and lesser one.

Palilula, - 2006

No flag.

The previous coat of arms of Palilula is per fess chief per pale, 1st gules a pipe or, 2nd azure a church or and 3rd argent a pavilion with a key or inslcribed in Cyrillic Palilula-Beograd. No flag was adopted.

Rakovica

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The banner of arms of Rakovica is Azure with the Church of St. Paraskeva Argent, in chief Gules with a cross Or, in base a brook fimbrated Argent. The brook represented on the banner has the same name as the community.

Stari Grad

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The banner of arms of Stari Grad (Old Town) could be blazoned: Per fess, Gules a tower Argent windowed and lined Sable, on each side on a stone Argent a double cross barred Or; barry of six Argent and Gules.

Voždovac

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The banner of arms of Voždovac is divided per fess and upper part per pale, I. Serbia, II. Tribalia, III. Argent a rose Azure and Gules with petals and middle Or. The assumed coat of arms of Tribalia (name of tribe inhabiting the area in pre-Roman times) is arrow pierced boar's head. The Byzantine rulers named the Serb lords Kings of Tribalia, and the coat of arms was often used on flags of Serb military leaders of 19th century.

Vračar

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In the community of Vračar there is a biggest temple of the Serbian Orthodox Church - the Temple of St. Sava. The cross on the banner of arms is actually the cross from the main dome of the Temple.

Zemun

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The coat of arms of Zemun is a historical one granted by the Austrian emperors azure a tree proper on a mount vert between a deer sejant and a lion rampant holding a sabre. It symbolically pictures the city between Srijem (deer) and Banat (lion) regions. The modernized version of the coat of arms adopted in July 2004 include the greater coat of arms with the mural crown or on a green mount with wavy white line and blue base supported with two lions rampant or. The motto could be either in Serbian Cyrillic "Oduvek Zemun Zauvek" or in Latin language "Ab Aeterno Zemun Ad Infinitum". The lesser coat of arms include only the shield with the crown.
The flag adopted in 2003 is blue over green bicolour based on the colours from the coat of arms.

Zvezdara

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The banner of arms of the community of Zvezdara is chanting: Zvezdara means an astronomical observatory - the observatory after which the whole community got named, and there is little wander that the constellation of Ursa Major is pictured on the flag. In canton there is the coat of arms of Serbia.

Čajetina

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The flag of Čajetina is blue with yellow cross reminding of a snowflake.

Despotovac

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The flag of Despotovac is quartered red and blue and overall in the middle a white fimbriated red disk containing a white double-headed eagle.

Istok

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Jagodina

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The banner of arms of Jagodina, town in central Serbia in Pomoravlje, is so called canting flag - such that represent with its elements the name of the city. The root of the name Jagodina is "jagoda" - strawberry.

Knjaževac

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The flag is green with yellow inverted pall and in the middle an inescutcheon ermine a princely crown proper. The ermine shield with the crown refer to the city name that refers to the prince (of Serbia), local title being "knjaz".

Kraljevo

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The banner of arms of Kraljevo is Gules, seven open royal crowns Or (2+2+2+1). The city's name as well as the seven crowns are due to the fact that seven Serbian kings were crowned in the nearby monastery Žiča. The shield of the ceremonial coat of arms is topped with a falcon as a symbol of cultural center and a ribbon below ending in the national tricolour bears a motto "Nama dobro a nikome zlo" (Tu us well to none ill). The non-ceremonial coat of arms consists only of the shield.

Pećinci

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The banner of Pećinci is blue with a red cross and four corn ears issuing from its center.

Požarevac

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The banner of Požarevac is yellow with two blue vertical stripes and a blue chief containing three white disks.

Požega

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The flag of Požega is quartered blue and red with a white cross overall and over its centre a white fimbriated blue disc with a yellow cross throughout.

Ražanj

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The flag is blue with a white declining diagonal stripe and the coat of arms in the middle. The coat of arms is or quartered by a cross argent fimbriated azure and gules, first a mais ear sable, second a stork rising also sable, third an oak tiwg with two leaves and an acorn of the last and foruth three spikes (?) in bend siniter pointing to the chief, and in a chief azure inscribed in two lines in traditional Cyrillic letters 'Opština Ražanj'.

Ruma

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The flag of Ruma is blue with six white and green wavy stripes in the lower half and two yellow sixpointed star in the upper half. As part of the Slavonian Kingdom of the Habsburg Empire, Ruma was granted the coat of arms in 1749, that is basically the same as today - however, the newly adopted model is a modernized artwork and with different supporters and other minor, but heraldically important differences.

Smederevska Palanka

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The flag of Smederevska Palanka is simplified banner of arms: per fess lowered in palisade cut vert a church argent and sable. The coat of arms is in three stages, the ceremonial is: per fess lowered in palisade cut vert a church argent and sable a fess wavy or cotised, crowned with a massoned crown or, supported by two lions rampant gules langued or and armed argent holding a sword argent hilted or and a banned dexter that of Serbia and sinister that of Smederevska Palanka, standing on a compartment of an oak branch or with a ribbon purpure inscibed with the name of the city argent. The middle coat of arms retains the crown, but having an oak wreath with the ribbon instead. The lesser coat of arms consists of the shield only.

Stara Pazova

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The flag of Stara Pazova is divided with a complex division blue over white and overall a golden sceptre in pale, a shepard's staff and a sword in saltire.

Subotica

Subotica, Szabadka

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The flag of Subotica is white over light-blue bicolour with the coat of arms in the middle. Subotica uses it historical coat of arms as was grandted when the city was given rights of a free and royal city on 1 September 1779 then renamed to Maria Teresienstadt. The coat of arms is a seal form that was usual for the period is a shield with a baroque ornament per fess azure Madonna clead gules sejant holding the Baby Jasus in her lap in glory or in chief dester and St. Theresia in Carmelite dress holding hands towards them and gules a lion or rampant holding a curved sword argent hilted or above its head. The shield is crowned with a leafly crown or and set within a circulear seal inscribed "Sigillum Liberæ et Regiæ Civitatis Maria Theresiopolis." The upper half of the shield refers to the new city name while the lower part is the coat of arms of the Temesvar Bannate that was a separate Habsburg crownland until that time.

Szabadka, 1941-1944

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The flag used by Subotica during the Hungarian occupation in the World War II was very simple based on the coat of arms blue over red horizontal bicolou with a vertical stripe over the center. Such simple flags were devised for all of the Hungarian cities in the period, though the extent of its usage is unknown.

Surdulica

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The flag of Surdulica is white with a red cross ensigned with a silver twelve-petailed rose and four fire-steels blue.

Svilajnac

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The flag is blue with a silver silkworm over a golden cocoon. The charges surely cant the village name silk being "svila" in Serbian.

Štrpce

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The banner of arms of Štrpce is blazoned: per chevron Gules and Argent, two palls couped in base counter-charged. Štrpce is small town on south-eastern border of Kosovo, on the road from Uroševac to Prizren, prior to 1990's part of Uroševac community.

Topola

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The banner of arms of Topola is based on the flag of dukes from the First Serb Uprising (1804-1813). The leader of the Uprising, Karagjorgje, was living in Topola and led the uprising from there. The coat of arms in baroque style compartments are of Serbia and Tribalia (arrow pierced boar's head).

Vrnjačka Banja

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The banner of Vrnjačka Banja is red with a white cross pattee and single bottone.

Velika Plana

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The banner of Velika Plana is per fess azure a boar's hrad sable pierced or and gules a doubleheaded eagle argent within an annulet of the same.

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