Emblem — City of Požarevac
Emblem
Territorial Heraldry

City of Požarevac

Braničevo District, Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia

Pseudo-heraldic emblemPrikaži on the map
Bearer
City of Požarevac
Adopted
28 December 2005
Author
Nebojša Mitrić
Decision
Decision amending the Decision on the Coat of Arms, Flag and Day of the Municipality of Požarevac, adopted on 28 December 2005 and published the same day in the official gazette of the municipality
Author of the arms, 2001–2005
Dragomir Acović
District
Braničevo District
Region
Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
Eparchy
Eparchy of Braničevo
Official website
pozarevac.rs

The City of Požarevac uses a pseudo-heraldic emblem in the shape of a shield, the work of the academic sculptor Nebojša Mitrić, and a square orange flag with that emblem in the centre. The emblem was the official insignia from 1966 to 2001, when it was replaced by heraldic arms in three levels and a banner, produced by the Serbian Heraldry Society. On the initiative of the Fund “Peace of Požarevac 1718” the municipality, by a decision of 28 December 2005, restored the old emblem and at the same time adopted a new flag. On the orange field a sword, the statuette of the Kličevac Idol, an olive sprig and three lines representing rivers are shown in brown.

Blazon

Insignia

An orange shield with a brown border; in the field brown figures — on the left an upright sword, in the centre the Kličevac Idol, on the right an olive sprig, and at the base three horizontal lines.

Flag

According to the decision, the flag is square, orange, with the arms in the centre, rendered in brown or gold. In practice both a horizontal and a vertical variant in the proportion 2 : 3 are used.

Symbolism and meaning

The three lines at the base of the shield represent the three rivers of the Požarevac area — the Morava, the Danube and the Mlava. The sword, the Kličevac Idol and the olive sprig are shown stylised, in the spirit of the author's sculptural hand.

Earlier insignia

  1. 1966–2001The same emblem

    The emblem by the sculptor Nebojša Mitrić was the official insignia of the municipality until 2001, when it was replaced by heraldic arms. By the decision of December 2005 it was restored to use in unaltered form.

  2. 2001–2005Earlier coat of arms and flag

    The Decision on the Coat of Arms, Flag and Day of the Municipality of Požarevac, published in the municipal official gazette on 21 December 2001, introduced arms in three levels — basic, middle and greater — with a heraldic banner. The insignia come from the workshop of the Serbian Heraldry Society, and the author of the arms, according to the society's list, is Dragomir Acović. The basic arms were a red shield with a gold cross, and in the dexter canton a gold lion rampant with a raised silver sabre with a gold hilt. The middle arms were surmounted by a silver mural crown with four visible crenellations; the shield was surrounded by a green oak half-wreath with gold acorns, and the whole stood on a black roundel edged with a red ribbon with gold borders and the gold inscription “ПОЖАРЕВАЦ”. In an unofficial version the ribbon bears, instead of the name, the Latin motto “EX FLAMMIS ORIOR” (“From the flames I rise”). The greater arms, with the same crown, had as supporters a black bull standing upright with gold horns, hooves and tail and a black horse rampant with a gold mane, tail and hooves and a red tongue, both with a blue collar bearing three silver coins; between them and the shield stood wooden lances shod with gold, with banners fringed with gold — on the dexter the flag of Serbia, on the sinister the banner of Požarevac — and beneath the shield a white ribbon with the red inscription “ПОЖАРЕВАЦ”. The square banner, which is repeated in the greater arms, was yellow, with a blue field in the form of the Greek letter π and three white circles in the upper part of that field: the yellow denotes fertile land, and the blue field the confluence of the Morava and the Mlava with the Danube.

  3. 2006.Recorded flag

    In television footage from Požarevac in March 2006 a vertical orange-blue-red tricolour with the municipal insignia in the upper part of the orange field was seen alongside the flag of Serbia; it was probably the municipal flag.

City municipalities

Emblem — City Municipality of Kostolac

Kostolac

City Municipality of Kostolac

Settlements 22

  • Bare
  • Batovac
  • Beranje
  • Bradarac
  • Bratinac
  • Brežane
  • Bubušinac
  • Dragovac
  • Drmno
  • Dubravica
  • Živica
  • Kasidol
  • Kličevac
  • Lučica
  • Maljurevac
  • Nabrđe
  • Požarevac
  • Poljana
  • Prugovo
  • Rečica
  • Trnjane
  • Ćirikovac

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