City of Sremska Mitrovica
Srem District, Region of Vojvodina
- Bearer
- City of Sremska Mitrovica
- Adopted
- 7 July 1967 (again in 1999)
- Author
- Enes Mundić
- Decision
- Statute of the Municipality of Sremska Mitrovica (“Službeni list opština Srema”, no. 13/99), by which the emblem was adopted again in unaltered form
- District
- Srem District
- Region
- Region of Vojvodina
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Srem
- Official website
- sremskamitrovica.rs
The City of Sremska Mitrovica uses an emblem in the shape of a shield and a white flag with the emblem in the centre, most often in a vertical, elongated form. The emblem was designed by the painter Enes Mundić, inspired by the old arms of the town, and was adopted on 7 July 1967 in place of the traditional arms and confirmed again in the same form by the municipal statute of 1999. The central figure, a warrior with a spear and shield in the gate of a fortress, is described in the statute as a Roman soldier, while the Latin inscription “CIVITAS SANCTI DEMETRII” points to Saint Demetrius.
Blazon
A shield with a black border and a black chief bearing the white inscription “СРЕМСКА МИТРОВИЦА”; on the white field three green mounds, the tallest of which bears a gold flame at its top, and beneath them the brown crenellated wall of a Roman fortress with an arched gate, in which a warrior in armour, with a spear and shield, stands on a green hemisphere. At the base green ground cut by the silver wavy line of a river, and across it in an arc the black inscription “CIVITAS SANCTI DEMETRII”. The colours of the mounds, wall, ground and river were laid down as early as 1967.
A white flag with the emblem in the centre, most often vertical and of elongated proportions; no information on a prescribed proportion is known. Both a horizontal and a vertical variant with the arms and the name of the city are used.
Symbolism and meaning
According to the statute, the three mounds, one of which bears a flame, are a symbol of struggle and of the fallen victims; the Roman fortress and the soldier with shield and spear recall that the city lies on the remains of Roman Sirmium; and the green ground with the wavy line represents the fields of Srem and the River Sava.
The Latin inscription “CIVITAS SANCTI DEMETRII” means “City of Saint Demetrius”. Saint Demetrius of Sirmium, a soldier and martyr of the fourth century, suffered in Sirmium in the time of Emperor Maximian. His cult spread quickly: at the beginning of the fifth century the prefect of Illyricum built churches to him in Sirmium and Thessalonica, and today hundreds of churches in the Balkans are dedicated to him and he is regarded as the patron of Belgrade.
