City of Sombor
West Bačka District, Region of Vojvodina
- Bearer
- City of Sombor
- Adopted
- 17 February 2002 (coat of arms, flag and City Day)
- Decision
- Decision of the Municipal Assembly of Sombor of 17 February 2002; the arms and flag are also prescribed by the Statute of the City of Sombor of 30 August 2008 (Article 10)
- District
- West Bačka District
- Region
- Region of Vojvodina
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Bačka
- Official website
- sombor.rs
The City of Sombor uses historical arms in several forms, as lesser arms (shield), middle arms with a helm, crown and a lion in the crest, and a seal variant with a circular inscription, as well as a flag in horizontal and vertical form. The arms, flag and Day of the City were adopted by the Municipal Assembly on 17 February 2002, and the Statute of the City of 2008 establishes as the official symbol the historical arms as described in the Charter of Privilege of the Free and Royal City of Sombor. The year 1749 in the inscription of the seal recalls the time when Sombor gained the status of a free and royal city. The flag is white, with the arms in the form of a seal in the centre.
Blazon
On a red field, on green ground, a silver fortress with an open gate closed by an iron portcullis and a taller central crenellated tower, with a lower tower on each side; the walls have loopholes, and near the top a crenellated cornice. From the upper window on the dexter side extends an arm in a red sleeve with a sabre pointed towards a gold eight-pointed star in the upper corner, and from the window on the sinister side flies a blue swallow-tailed flag bearing the gold numeral “3” between two joined laurel sprigs. Before the gate stand two guards: the dexter in a blue cloth suit, with a black pandour's fur cap, in black boots and with an old-fashioned heavy musket, and the sinister in a blue tunic, red breeches and gold boots, with a red Hungarian cap and a drawn sabre raised aslant.
In the middle arms above the shield is a tournament helm with a visor and a gold crown, behind which rises a lion of natural colour, with tongue out and tail raised, holding in its paws a drawn sabre and a blue swallow-tailed flag. The mantling of oak leaves is red and gold in the drawing, whereas the statute describes it as silver and red.
In the seal variant the middle arms stand in a circular frame with the inscription “SIGILLUM REGIAE LIBERAEQUE CIVITATIS ZOMBORIENSIS 1749”.
A white flag in the proportion 2:3, with the arms in the form of a seal in the centre, framed by the circular inscription “SIGILLUM REGIAE LIBERAEQUE CIVITATIS ZOMBORIENSIS 1749” written in gold letters; the diameter of the frame is 45% of the length of the flag. The arms are laid in the direction of the longer side of the flag, and on a vertical flag may stand upright.
