Emblem — Republika Srpska
Emblem
Territorial Heraldry

Republika Srpska

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Bearer
Republika Srpska
Emblem
16 June 2007 (Government decree)
Author of the emblem
Nenad Košanin
Flag
12 May 1992
Regions
6 regions, 64 cities and municipalities
Official website
vladars.rs

The Emblem of Republika Srpska has been the official device of Republika Srpska since 16 June 2007, when the Government introduced it by decree in place of the previous coat of arms, which the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina had declared unconstitutional. The author of the emblem is Nenad Košanin. The emblem remains in use until new arms are adopted: the design adopted by the National Assembly on 15 July 2008 was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Republika Srpska on 22 December 2008.

The flag of Republika Srpska — a tricolour of red, blue and white in the proportion 1 : 2 — has been in use since 12 May 1992. In 2006 the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed its constitutionality.

Blazon

Insignia

A round field in the colours of the flag of Republika Srpska — red, blue and white — over which is the gold interlaced monogram “РС”; the field is surrounded by a gold fruited oak wreath, bound at the base with a ribbon in the colours of the flag. Above the field a gold closed heraldic crown, and beneath it a gold crown of fleurs-de-lis. Around the whole the inscription РЕПУБЛИКА СРПСКА — REPUBLIKA SRPSKA.

Flag

Three horizontal fields of equal height: red, blue and white; proportion 1 : 2.

Insignia in use

Earlier insignia

  1. 1992–2007Arms of Republika Srpska

    The first coat of arms: on a red shield a silver double-headed eagle with gold beaks and legs, crowned with a gold crown, with a small red shield on its breast bearing a silver cross with four silver firesteels. The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared it unconstitutional, and in 2007 it was replaced by the emblem.

  2. 1995–2007Tricolour with the coat of arms

    A tricolour with the arms in the centre was also in unofficial use; today the tricolour with the emblem is used in the same way, likewise unofficially.

  3. 2008Contested coat of arms

    The arms adopted by the National Assembly on 15 July 2008 were declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Republika Srpska on 22 December of the same year.