City of Bor
Bor District, Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Bearer
- City of Bor
- District
- Bor District
- Region
- Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Timok
- Official website
- bor.rs
The City of Bor uses arms in three levels — lesser, middle and greater — and a flag. The central motif of the arms is a pine (“bor”), a canting charge that repeats the name of the city; with it on the shield are a green bend sinister and a red cross. On the flag a blue and a green field are separated by a white wavy line, and in the centre is a device with pine needles and a cone. The arms are composed on the model of recent Serbian heraldry, with one peculiarity: the flags held by the supporters — the city's and the tricolour of Serbia — are in the proportion 2:3, and not in the square form 1:1 that is otherwise usual.
Blazon
A shield divided diagonally from the sinister with a green bend sinister on the line of division: in the upper, gold field a green pine with a brown trunk, and in the lower, silver field a red cross.
A gold mural crown with three towers; in the middle arms there are also lilac branches behind the shield.
Two eagles of natural colour with red ribbons and gold badges around their necks; the dexter holds the tricolour of Serbia, the sinister the flag of the city, both in the proportion 2:3.
Grassy ground with stones and purple flowers.
A golden ribbon with the inscription “БОР”.
Divided horizontally by a white wavy line into a blue upper and a green lower field; in the centre is a white circle with a green border, containing stylised green pine needles and a red cone.
Symbolism and meaning
The pine in the shield and the pine needles with the cone on the flag allude to the name of the city, since the word bor denotes a coniferous tree, the pine. The blue field of the flag probably represents the sky, and the green the mountainous relief of the area.
