Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
- Bearer
- Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
- Official coat of arms
- Adopted by the Assembly of AP Vojvodina in 2002
- Official flag
- Adopted on 27 February 2004.
- Traditional coat of arms and flag
- Introduced by the 2014 Statute of AP Vojvodina and adopted on 15 September 2016.
- Regulation
- Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (2014)
- Region
- Region of Vojvodina
- Official website
- vojvodina.gov.rs
Under its Statute of 2014 the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina has two coats of arms and two flags — the official ones, adopted in 2002 and 2004, and the traditional ones, based on the insignia of the Serbian Vojvodina of 1848, whose introduction the Assembly voted on 15 September 2016.
The official arms combine the arms of three historical lands — Bačka, the Banat and Srem — arranged so as to follow their geographical relationship. The traditional arms are a red shield with a cross and four firesteels, beneath a ducal crown and on a ducal mantle.
Blazon
A shield divided into three fields, one for each historical land. Bačka: on a blue field, on green ground, the holy apostle Paul in a blue robe and red cloak, with a gold halo, holding in his right hand a silver sword with a gold hilt pointing downwards, and in his left a book. The Banat: on a red field a gold lion passant with a gold sabre. Srem: on a blue field three silver wavy bars, and between the second and third a green field with a tree and a brown stag lying down, with a gold collar.
A red shield with a silver cross between four gold firesteels, their edges turned towards the upright of the cross. The shield is encircled by an open wreath of an oak branch with acorns and an olive branch, in natural colours, tied with a blue ribbon; it rests on a ducal mantle with three folds, beneath a closed ducal crown.
The official flag is a red–blue–white tricolour with a considerably widened central blue field, on which three yellow five-pointed stars are arranged in a triangle; proportion 1:2. The traditional flag is a tricolour of three horizontal fields of equal height — red, blue and white — with or without the traditional arms, in the proportion 2:3.
Symbolism and meaning
All three arms of the lands date from the Habsburg period: Bačka was granted the arms with Saint Paul by Emperor Leopold I in 1699, Srem the arms with the stag and rivers by Empress Maria Theresa in 1747, and the arms of the Banat are derived from the arms of Timișoara, the chief town of Temes County. The official arms of the province are based on the arms of the Serbian Vojvodina of 1848 from the flag of the Zemun National Guard, but without the Serbian shield with firesteels, the arms of Baranja and the Hungarian crown.
The three stars on the official flag stand for Bačka, the Banat and Srem, and the tricolour for the province's belonging to Serbia. The traditional arms and flag restore the insignia used by the Serbian Vojvodina from the May Assembly in Sremski Karlovci in 1848.