Territorial Heraldry

City of Vršac

South Banat District, Region of Vojvodina

Heraldically correct coat of arms Prikaži on the map

Bearer: City of Vršac
District: South Banat District
Region: Region of Vojvodina
Eparchy: Eparchy of Banat
Official website: vrsac.com

The City of Vršac uses its traditional arms: lesser arms in the shape of a shield and middle arms in the form of a round seal with the Latin inscription “SIGILLUM PRIVILEGIAT COMMUNITATIS VERSCHEZ” and the year 1804, when Vršac became a town. The arms show a landscape: a hill with a tower and vineyards, and above the tower an arm with a sabre and a severed head. The flag is white, with the insignia in the centre.

Blazon

Shield

On a blue field a green hill with vineyards, on top of which is the silver crenellated tower of a fortress, and above it an arm in a red sleeve holding a sabre on which a severed head is impaled; on the slope of the hill a church and a house, at the foot a town with churches and houses with red roofs, and at the base of the shield gold fields before a zigzag fence.

Flag

A white flag with the insignia of the city in the centre.

Earlier insignia

1939Historical depiction
A card from the album “Grbovi Jugoslavije”, published in Zagreb in 1939 by “Kava Hag”, inscribed “VRŠAC”, shows the same landscape motif: the hill with the tower and vineyards, the arm with the sabre above the tower and the town at the foot.
1941–1944 (?)Earlier flag (unconfirmed)
Széll's book records for Vršac (Versec) a flag cut into blue and white fields in the form of rays (gyronny). It is not clear whether the flags in that book were merely proposals or were formally prescribed; if it was used, this was at the longest from 1941 to 1944.