Municipality of Bečej
South Bačka District, Region of Vojvodina
- Bearer
- Municipality of Bečej
- Adopted
- 20 January 2009
- Decision
- Decision on the Appearance of the Coat of Arms and Flag of the Municipality of Bečej and Their Use (2009)
- District
- South Bačka District
- Region
- Region of Vojvodina
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Bačka
- Official website
- becej.rs
The Municipality of Bečej uses the arms and flag established by the Decision on the Appearance of the Coat of Arms and Flag of the Municipality of Bečej and Their Use, adopted on 20 January 2009; until then it used an unheraldic emblem with socialist motifs. The decision prescribes arms of round form: the shield stands at the centre of a seal with a Latin inscription and the year 1800, which corresponds to the practice of the Austrian authorities in the eighteenth century, who formally granted the right to a seal rather than to arms. The shield alone, without the seal frame, is also in use. The flag is white, blue and green, with the arms in the form of a seal in the upper corner next to the lance.
Blazon
A Baroque shield with a pointed base, divided by a silver wavy bar: in the upper, red field two amoretti hold a gold crown, and beneath it are the gold letters “FII.”; in the lower, blue field the Holy Great Martyr George on a silver horse pierces the dragon with a lance, and to his right are three, to his left seven gold stars. The base of the shield is green.
Above the shield a gold leafed crown set with precious stones, and around the shield a gold foliate ornament on a dark brown field.
The whole is set in a circle framed by a white ring with gold rims and the black inscription “SIGILLUM PRIVILEGIATI ET REGIO CORONALIS DISTRICTUS CIS·TYBISCANI ANNO 1800”.
Three horizontal stripes, white, blue and green, in the ratio 2:1:1, with the arms in the form of a seal in the upper corner of the white field next to the lance; the proportion is 1:2 (1 × 2 m). The prescribed shades are white (C0 M0 Y0 K0), blue (C100 M55 Y0 K0) and green (C100 M0 Y100 K20), and on a double-sided flag both sides are the same, with the arms nearer the lance.
Symbolism and meaning
The silver waves dividing the shield represent the River Tisa. The letters “FII.” beneath the crown are the initials of the Habsburg emperor Francis II.
