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Page created: 13th October 2000 Last updated: 21st January 2014
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.

Republic of Srpska - Cities and Communities, part VI (R-Š)

Republika Srpska - gradovi i opštine

• Ribnik
• Rogatica
• Rudo
• Sokolac
• Srbac
• Srebrenica
  • Skelani
• Šamac
• Šekovići
• Šipovo

• Republic of Srpska
• Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ribnik

Seat of administration: Gornji Ribnik

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Ribnik is described in the 2005 Statutes as a shield ending in the base with a point, with the emblem of the cross with four letters S (Cyrillic "С") along the top line of the shield, trees in the centre and two fishes, blue and one one, in the bottom. The design used by the end of 2009 follows this basic description, adding two white panels, one on each side of the cross emblem, the dexter one inscribed with the name of the municipality and the sinister with the year 1818. Since the begining of 2010 a slightly modified design is used, without letters S surrounding the cross, and the year replaced by the year 1850. There are also other minor graphic differences. A flag is not prescribed nor reported.

The municipality was established in 1992 from parts of the former municipality of Ključ, and was initially named Srpski Ključ.

Rogatica

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Rogatica is a shield bordered golden with a golden cross and golden outlined chief. The background of the quarters is red-blue-white in colour gradation though white, the chief is red with the white inscription of the municipal name in two rows, Cyrillic over Latin, in the first is a gray castle with golden closed gates, in the second two green mountain shpaed lines from which are raising two confierous and a decidous tree also green and a golden oak leaf, in the third a black horse rearing and in the fourth a masoned one-arched bridge between two mountai sides and a stream pouring between. The colours of the arms background are those of Srpska, the castle represents the Pavlović tower (Kula Pavlovića) symbolizing the historical heritage, the second quater represents the natural resources of the municipality. The horse stands for Borika village and its stables, and the bridge is depiction of the brigde over Žepa river "on which our famous Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić was writing and which was proclaimed a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina." A flag is not prescribed nor used.
Recently, the coat of arms is occasionally used without the Latin inscription, apparently as a result of private initiative and not a change in legislation.

Rudo

No flag.

The coat of arms of Rudo is a shield triple bordered in the Serb tricolour per fess by a ribbon gules inscribed the community name argent azure infront of a mountain vert issuant between two fir trees issuand from flanks a church and argent four bendlets wavy couped azure. The church of SS. Peter and Paul the Apostles in Rudo is depicted and the wavy lines respresent the Lim river. A flag is not prescribed.

Sokolac

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The coat of arms of Sokolac depicts the Romanija mountain over two flags of Srpska, a circular saw with a blue disk depcting the church of Romanijska Lazarica, between a blue Serbian spruce (Lat. Picea omorika, Srb. Pančićeva omorika) and wheat ear, above a white stripe inscribed with the municipal name over a red one ensigned with a Latin cross formy. The flag in use is a white vertical flag with the coat of arms offset toward the bottom. Table flags of similar design, with the municipality name inscribed on a golden scroll under the coat of arms are also used.
The coat of arms is nearly identical with Vlasenica.

The Sokolac municipality is part of the City of Istočno Sarajevo.

Srbac

The coat of arms of Srbac include the Serb cross with fire-irons, the wreath of corn, a running boar and watter lilies.

Srebrenica

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The emblem of Srebrenica is a rectangular red field with a gray initial S fimbriated dusky orange, within it in the top a green coniferous treen and within its bottom an orange fountain. In the base is inscribed the gray name of the municipality. The gray symbolizes the lead and zinc ore, the dusky orange the bauxite ore. The tree stands for the natural wealth of woods, and the fountain the healing waters of Crni Guber. The flag is not prescribed, but a white flag with the emblem in its centre is used.
The Statutes prescribed the initial and the inscription to be in the Latin script, and such are used officially, as well. However, variations with the initial and inscription in Cyrillic are promoted, apparently, as a private initiative.

Šamac

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The coat of arms of Šamac is a shield its top shaped as embattlement in shape of the letter Ш (Š), in blue a red Greek cross from which are issuing four golden channel profile beams opened outwards, within each an emblem composed of stylized two letters Ш depicting a wheat ear in the first, cog gears in the second, a vessel mirrored in the water in the third and an opened book in the fourth. A golden anchor is issuing towards base from the cross. In the chief inscribed the name of the municipality. A vertical white flag with the coat of arms in the bottom half is in use.

Until 1992 the municipality name was Bosanski Šamac.

Šekovići

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Šekovići is argent a pall embowed azure ensigned with a gravestone (?) topped with a Latin cross all fimbriated or and a sun of the first with nine rays also or and in the chief gules inscribed the name of the municipality of the first. A flag is not prescribed nor reported in use.

Šipovo

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Šipovo is per fess or and azure sapiné (fir-tree topped) and in the base over five lines of the first invected an inescutecheon or a cross azure between four letters S and in the chief azure inscribed the name of municipality or. The top of the shield is shaped as an embatteled tower issuant between two embattlements, one at each corner. A flag is not prescribed nor recorded in use.

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