Municipality of Ruma
Srem District, Region of Vojvodina
- Bearer
- Municipality of Ruma
- Author
- Dragomir Acović
- District
- Srem District
- Region
- Region of Vojvodina
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Srem
- Official website
- ruma.rs
The Municipality of Ruma uses arms in three levels — greater, middle and lesser — and a banner. The modern arms, the work of the heraldist Dragomir Acović, essentially repeat the arms Ruma received in 1749, but in a modernised drawing, with different colours of the field, new supporters and ornaments around the shield. On a shield of Baroque form two raised arms surround a gold double cross above a pillar with a crown, with the initials of a Latin motto, two gold stars and wavy bars; the middle arms are framed by gold foliage, and the greater are supported by two sea-stags. The banner is a simplified coat of arms: a blue square flag with two yellow stars and white and green wavy stripes.
Blazon
On a blue field a gold double cross above a silver pillar — an altar on a stepped base, on top of which is a gold crown; two raised arms in red sleeves reach towards the cross from the sides. Beside the pillar are the silver letters I, S, O and H, E, R, beneath them a gold six-pointed star each, and at the base a silver field with three green wavy bars.
A golden masoned mural crown with three crenellations.
Two sea-stags — dark brown stags with gold antlers and gold fish tails; the dexter holds a lance with the flag of Serbia, the sinister a lance with the municipal banner. The shield is framed by a gold Baroque frame.
A green grassy mound.
A square blue flag, in whose lower half are six white and green wavy stripes, and in the upper two yellow six-pointed stars.
Symbolism and meaning
According to the interpretation of the historical arms, the three wavy bars represent the three streams that flow around Ruma, and the stars the military merits of its citizens in the wars against the Turks. The letters in the shield are the initials of the Latin motto “IN HOC SIGNO EVADET OPPIDUM RUMA” — “Under this sign the town of Ruma has grown”.
