City of Novi Pazar
Raška District, Region of Šumadija and Western Serbia
- Bearer
- City of Novi Pazar
- Adopted
- 27 May 2002
- Decision
- Statute of the Municipality of Novi Pazar, Article 90
- District
- Raška District
- Region
- Region of Šumadija and Western Serbia
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Raška and Prizren
- Official website
- novipazar.rs
The City of Novi Pazar uses an emblem in the shape of a shield and a blue flag with that emblem in the centre. Both are prescribed by Article 90 of the municipal statute adopted on 27 May 2002. The emblem is not a heraldic coat of arms, but a pictorial view of the city: a fortress with a tower, a hydroelectric power plant, a road and rivers, with the year “1461” at the base of the shield.
Blazon
A shield in whose upper part is a blue sky above green hills; in the centre is a white tower with a roof, surrounded by the red ramparts of a fortress, and at its foot a small white building and a blue hydroelectric power plant with waterfalls. Below are a road paved with red stone on an ochre ground and a wavy blue band of rivers, and in the green base the white number “1461”.
A deep blue flag in the proportion 1 : 1.5, with the emblem placed in the centre.
Symbolism and meaning
The emblem shows the fortress with the tower and the hydroelectric power plant with waterfalls, with the road and the stylised rivers Raška and Jošanica. The principal colours are blue, white, red and green, and the ochre denotes the centuries-long endurance of the town.
