Greater arms — City of Kikinda
Greater arms
Territorial Heraldry

City of Kikinda

North Banat District, Region of Vojvodina

Bearer
City of Kikinda
Decision
Statute of the City of Kikinda, published on 6 February 2019 in the city's official gazette, no. 4
District
North Banat District
Region
Region of Vojvodina
Eparchy
Eparchy of Banat
Official website
kikinda.org.rs

The City of Kikinda uses lesser and greater arms, as well as a flag prescribed by the Statute of the city published on 6 February 2019. The flag was adopted in memory of the Privileged District of Velika Kikinda, an autonomous unit within the Habsburg Monarchy that existed from 1774 to 1876 with its seat in Velika Kikinda. The flag is also shown in the greater arms themselves.

Blazon

Shield

On a red field a silver armoured arm holding a silver sabre on which is impaled a severed shaven head with black moustaches and a queue; beneath the arm a heart, silver in the greater arms.

Crown

A golden mural crown.

Supporters

Two gold griffins holding flags on lances: the dexter the state flag of Serbia, the sinister the flag of the city.

Compartment

A golden carved pedestal with a mask-shaped ornament.

Ribbon

A ribbon with the motto ATTENDITE, between the years 1774 and 1918.

Flag

A field divided into blue and red, over which is a gold lion holding a silver sabre in its right paw and in its left a black pole with a severed shaven head with black moustaches. It is most often made in the proportion 2:3, and earlier reports also record a square flag.

Earlier insignia

  1. 1774–1876Coat of arms of the District of Velika Kikinda

    The present insignia are derived from the arms of the Privileged District of Velika Kikinda, which had a plain red field. In old depictions the heart is red on the red field, outlined in black or gold, but the analysis cited on the page indicates that it may originally have been silver and that the silver pigment darkened over time; in the description of the arms the heart is silver. The flag took the blue and red division of the field from the arms of Melenci, a former municipality within the District, where an armoured knight bears a long flag, blue over red, with the arms of the District next to the lance.

  2. 1893.Coat of arms of the free city

    When it gained the status of a free town in 1893, Kikinda also received arms: on a red field the armoured right arm of a frontiersman holds a sabre on which is impaled the severed head of a Turk, and at the base of the shield is a red heart.

Settlements 10

  • Banatska Topola
  • Banatsko Veliko Selo
  • Bašaid
  • Iđoš
  • Kikinda
  • Mokrin
  • Nakovo
  • Novi Kozarci
  • Rusko Selo
  • Sajan

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