Municipality of Surdulica
Pčinja District, Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Bearer
- Municipality of Surdulica
- Adopted
- 2002.
- Author
- Dragomir Acović
- District
- Pčinja District
- Region
- Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Vranje
- Official website
- surdulica.org
The Municipality of Surdulica uses arms in three levels and a heraldic banner, fully in keeping with the rules of the New Serbian Heraldry. The insignia were officially adopted in 2002, and the author is Dragomir Acović, then president of the Serbian Heraldry Society.
Blazon
On a silver field a red cross; over the cross a blue double-headed eagle, and on its breast a silver twelve-petalled flower.
A gold mural crown, which in the practice of Serbian civic heraldry denotes an area of 25,000 to 50,000 inhabitants.
Two falcons.
A mountain landscape with waves.
The Cyrillic inscription “Сурдулица”.
A paraphrase of the apocryphal arms of the Mrnjavčević family.
Symbolism and meaning
The arms evoke chivalry and martyrdom through the cross of the Holy Great Martyr George, patron of the church in Surdulica — in heraldry this cross is shown as a red cross on a white field. The blue double-headed eagle recalls the statehood of the Serbian people and the third colour of the apocryphal arms of the Mrnjavčević family, and together with white and red also evokes the national tricolour.
The silver twelve-petalled flower is taken from the cross above the entrance to the ossuary of those who perished in the First World War. The falcons, birds endemic to this area, recall the tradition of falconry, and the mountain landscape and waves recall the peaks around Surdulica, its rivers and both lakes.
