City Municipality of Kostolac
Braničevo District, Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Bearer
- City Municipality of Kostolac
- Grad
- City of Požarevac
- District
- Braničevo District
- Region
- Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Braničevo
- Official website
- kostolac.rs
The City Municipality of Kostolac, part of the City of Požarevac, uses insignia in the shape of a shield with an ancient scene, the inscription “КОСТОЛАЦ” on a red ribbon and the year 1380. The municipal flag is white, with the shield in the centre and the name beneath it.
Blazon
A shield with a black border and a white field. In the centre stands a female figure in classical dress, holding in her hands two military standards, marked with the numbers VII and IIII and adorned with a wreath; to her left is a black bull, and to her right a lion. Across the lower part of the shield runs a red ribbon with the inscription “КОСТОЛАЦ”, beneath it the year “1380”, and the base of the shield is followed by curved stripes of green, black, white and blue.
A white flag with the shield in the centre and the name of the municipality beneath it.
Symbolism and meaning
The central scene repeats the reverse of the coins struck by the colony of Viminacium, the ancient city and legionary camp in whose area Kostolac lies today. Viminacium gained the right to mint coins in 239, and its camp was the station of the legions VII and IV, to which the numbers on the standards refer.
