City Municipality of Voždovac
City of Beograd, Beogradski region
- Bearer
- City Municipality of Voždovac
- Adopted
- the 1990s
- Author
- Dragomir Acović
- Grad
- City of Belgrade
- Region
- Belgrade Region
- Eparchy
- Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovci
- Official website
- vozdovac.rs
The City Municipality of Voždovac uses arms in three levels — greater, middle and lesser — and a square banner, produced in the 1990s by the Serbian Heraldry Society; the author of the arms is Dragomir Acović. An interim administration of the municipality for a time annulled the arms, but today they are official again, and the manner of use of the insignia is prescribed by the municipality's graphic standards manual. The shield combines the Serbian cross with firesteels, the Triballian arms with the boar's head and a rose, and the greater arms have a black boar and a white horse as supporters.
Blazon
The shield is divided horizontally, and the upper half vertically as well: in the first, red field a silver cross between four silver firesteels; in the second, blue, a black boar's head turned towards the sinister flank, with gold tusks and a red tongue, pierced by a gold arrow through the forehead; in the lower, silver field a blue heraldic rose, in the drawing a double one — blue on the outside and red within, with gold sepals and centre.
A golden mural crown with four visible merlons.
On the (heraldic) dexter a black boar standing upright, armed gold and pierced by a gold arrow through the forehead, with the flag of Belgrade; on the sinister a white horse, armed gold, with a gold mane and tail, holding the banner of Voždovac.
A grassy hillock.
A white ribbon with the black Cyrillic inscription “ВОЖДОВАЦ”.
For the lesser and middle arms the municipality uses a stylisation with a thin red border around the shield and red joints between the stones of the mural crown, which the adopted proposal of the Serbian Heraldry Society does not mention. Following the example of the City of Belgrade, the arms are also used with the inscription “Градска општина Вождовац”, or “City Municipality Voždovac” in English.
The square banner repeats the field of the shield: above, the Serbian cross with firesteels and the Triballian boar's head; below, on silver, the blue rose. According to the graphic standards manual the banner must always be square, it is attached to the lance by the left side of the obverse, and if the cloth is transparent the reverse is a mirror image of the obverse; the arms must not be used as a flag.
Symbolism and meaning
The boar's head pierced by an arrow is attributed to Triballia — a land named after the tribe that lived there before the arrival of the Romans. Byzantine rulers called the Serbian rulers kings of Triballia, and so in the nineteenth century this device often appeared on the flags of Serbian military commanders.
