City of Smederevo
Podunavlje District, Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Bearer
- City of Smederevo
- District
- Podunavlje District
- Region
- Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Braničevo
- Official website
- smederevo.org.rs
The City of Smederevo uses an emblem in the shape of a shield and a white flag on which the emblem is placed in the centre. The emblem bears a crenellated wall with a tower of the Smederevo Fortress, a bunch of grapes and stripes representing the Danube, and across the shield is laid a red ribbon with the year 1430. The emblem is not composed according to the rules of heraldry: it uses two shades of blue, and a ribbon laid across the shield is an unusual solution in heraldry. A variant of the flag with an inscription bearing the name of the city beneath the emblem is also in use.
Blazon
A shield with a silver border: on a light blue field a silver crenellated wall with a taller central tower, on which the great cross-shaped inscription from the fortress tower is shown in simplified form in light blue, and above the tower a cluster of six silver circles, arranged three, two and one. The lower part of the shield is silver, with three dark blue bars narrowing towards the base. Across the middle of the shield lies a red ribbon with the silver inscription “1430”.
A white flag with the city's emblem in the centre; on the variant in our register the red inscription “ГРАД СМЕДЕРЕВО” stands beneath the emblem.
Symbolism and meaning
The six circles represent grapes, the wall and tower the Smederevo Fortress, with a simplified outline of the great inscription on its tower, and the dark blue and silver stripes at the base the River Danube.
