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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

Republic of Serbia, Srbija, Republika Srbija

• National Flag
• State Flag
• President of the Republic
• Chairman of the Parliament
• National Flag, 2004 – 2010
• State Flag, 2004 – 2010
• Naval Ensign, ca. 2007 –
• Naval Jack, ca. 2010 –
• President of the Republic, 2004 – 2010
• Chairman of the Parliament, 2004 – 2010
• Republic of Serbia, 1992 – 2004
• Vojvodina, Autonomous Region of
• Kosovo

• Serbia - Communities
• Serbia, First Serb Uprising, 1804 - 1813
• Serbia, Prinicipate 1835 - 1882
• Serbia, Kingdom 1882 - 1918
• Serbia - Ethnical Minorities
• Serbia - Political Flags

• Yugoslavia, 1945 - 1991 - Republics and Autonomous Regions

National Flag

Narodna zastava

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In 2010 the Government of the Republic of Serbia adopted new graphical standards for the flags and arms determined in the 2009 Law. While the heraldic contents remained the same, the artistic redention of the details was modernized and the colour shades were slightly changed.

State Flag

Državna zastava

2:3

President of the Republic

Standarta Predsednika Republike Srbije

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Chairman of the Parliament

Standarta Predsednika Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije

1:1

National Flag, 2004 – 2010

Narodna zastava

2:3

The Serbian tricolour was first used in 1815 with stripes ordered red-white-blue, and since 1835 the red-blue-white stripes are adopted. Since then the emblems in the middle were changed with regimes. The golden bordered red star was dropped around 1992, with the parliamentary recommendation. The latest recommendation of 2004 introduced also the state flag and set of the rank flags, as well as it reintroduced the coat of arms of 1882. The recommendations were issued instead of the laws due to the easier legislative procedure, though legally as such they are not bidding to anyone.
The coat of arms in this form was introduced by King Milan when the kingdom was proclaimed. The lesser coat of arms is Gules, two fleur-de-lis or below a double-headed eagle argent, beaked, membered and tongued or, bearing an escutcheon: gules, a cross argent between four firesteels or addorsed. Crowned with a royal crown proper. The greater coat of arms also adds the heraldic mantle topped with a crown.
The status of the flag and the coat of arms was finally legilstaed with the 2009 law.

State Flag, 2004 – 2010

Državna zastava

2:3

The state flag adds on the national tricolour the lesser coat of arms in the middle offset toward the hoist for 1/7 of the flag length.
The vertical variant is not prescribed, but is used in this form nevertheless - with the coat of arms off-set towards the canton.

Naval Ensign, ca. 2007 –

2:3

The naval ensign hoisted by the ships of the river flotilla is based in design on the naval ensigns used by the Socialist Yugoslavia and afterward the FR Yugoslavia and Serbia&Montenegro, now with the Serbian state flag in the canton of the red flag.

Naval Jack, ca. 2010 –

2:3?

The naval jack is a red flag with whitre-red-white border with the lesser coat of arms set over a white riverine anchor.

President of the Republic, 2004 – 2010

Standarta Predsednika Republike Srbije

1:1

The President of the Republic is given a flag according to the Yugoslav tradition introduced in 1920's, a square standard equal to the national tricolour with a border of tricolour triangles and the coat of arms in the middle, the greater coat of arms in this case. The corner-pieces are here red.

Chairman of the Parliament, 2004 – 2010

Standarta Predsednika Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije

1:1

The chairman of the Parliament is given the same standard but without the tricolour border, also according to the Yugoslav tradition, even though that was established only after the World War II.

Republic of Serbia, 1992 – 2004

1:2

The golden bordered red star in the Serbian tricolour was dropped around 1992. At the time the coat of arms was not changed, and the same one adopted in 1947 was still used.

Vojvodina, Autonomous Region of

Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina

1:2

The three coat of arms that form the new coat of arms of Vojvodina are those of (Hungarian and Croatian) counties, mainly granted in 18th century. The coat of arms of Bačka (Bács) was granted by king Leopold I (1657-1705) in 1699. It was retained for the united county of Bács-Bodrog latter on (1861?). In blue field on a green grass standing St. Paul holding in dexter a sword and in sinister a Bible. The Hungarian county of Bács-Kiskun that consists of parts of Bács that remained in Hungary also uses the coat of arms with St. Paul in its dexter half.
The coat of arms gules a lion rampant or holding a sabre above his head is the coat of arms of Temesvar Bannate, that was a separate crown-land in Habsburg Empire since its liberation from Turks in 1718 until 1779 when it was absorbed into Hungary and divided in three counties.
The third coat of arms is that of Srem (Hungarian Szerém, Croatian Srijem) granted in 1747 by Queen Maria Theresia. The modern Croatian county of Vukovar and Srijem uses the same coat of arms, also.
The flag of Vojvodina is a horizontal tricolour of red over blue over white in ratio 1:8:1, with three yellow five-pointed stars arranged circularly in the middle. The stars are inscribed within imaginary circle with diameter 30% of the hoist, with their centres arranged regularly along an imaginary circle 37% of the hoist in diameter centred in the middle of the flag. The tricolour is based on the Serbian tricolour, the three stars refer to three parts: Srem, Banat and Bačka, but also remind to the European orientation of the region.
Before the flag was adopted some Vojvodina political parties, among others League of Social-democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) and Coalition Vojvodina (KV) promoted the tricolour of blue-yellow-green as the flag of Vojvodina since mid-1990's, in vertical and in horizontal format. This was said to be based on flags used in revolutionary movements of 1848, though even if it was it must have been of secondary importance after the Hungarian and Serbian flags used. It is said that some such flag is preserved in a Vojvodina museum in Novi Sad, though with a brown stripe instead of a green one.

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