Municipality of Gornji Milanovac
Moravica District, Region of Šumadija and Western Serbia
- Bearer
- Municipality of Gornji Milanovac
- Adopted
- 2001.
- Author
- Dragomir Acović
- District
- Moravica District
- Region
- Region of Šumadija and Western Serbia
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Žiča
- Official website
- gornjimilanovac.rs
The Municipality of Gornji Milanovac uses arms in three levels and a banner. The arms and flag, the work of Dragomir Acović, were adopted together in the autumn of 2001, and both are dedicated to the Second Serbian Uprising, raised in Takovo in 1815: on the shield is the Takovo Bush with a red cross, and on the blue banner a white circle with a red cross in a wreath of flowers. After the local elections of 2004 the insignia were abolished and replaced by the earlier emblem, only to be adopted again on 9 March 2006; by a decision of 30 October 2009 they were once more withdrawn from use, and the device and flag introduced then were used until 2016. The motto “ВРЕМЕ И МОЈЕ ПРАВО” (“Time and my right”) is taken from the Obrenović dynasty.
Blazon
On a blue field a gold uprooted oak with leaves and acorns, with a red cross at the top of its trunk.
A golden mural crown.
On the dexter a red and on the sinister a gold lion rampant, both crowned and with sabres; the red lion holds the flag of Serbia, and the gold one the banner of the municipality.
A green grassy hillock.
A silver ribbon with a red reverse and the motto “ВРЕМЕ И МОЈЕ ПРАВО”, and beneath it the gold inscription “ГОРЊИ МИЛАНОВАЦ”.
Blue, with a white circle in the centre containing a red cross, the circle surrounded by a wreath of white flowers with gold centres and green leaves.
Symbolism and meaning
The oak in the shield is the Takovo Bush, beneath which the Second Serbian Uprising was raised in 1815, and the cross on it corresponds to the cross from the flag. The white circle with a red cross on the banner recalls the uprising, raised in Takovo, a village in the area of the municipality, which ended successfully with the creation of the modern Serbian state. The wreath around the circle denotes Palm Sunday, since the uprising was raised on that feast, which is also the day of the municipality. The blue field of the banner is the same as the field of the shield. The motto “Time and my right” comes from the Obrenović dynasty, whose founder Miloš Obrenović led the uprising and became the first prince of restored Serbia.
