City of Zaječar
Zaječar District, Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Bearer
- City of Zaječar
- Competition
- Public competition for the design of the coat of arms and flag, 2009.
- Author
- Nedim Hadžiahmetović, sculptor from Negotin
- District
- Zaječar District
- Region
- Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Timok
- Official website
- zajecar.info
In 2009 the City of Zaječar announced a public competition for a design of arms and a flag, which was won by the work of the sculptor from Negotin Nedim Hadžiahmetović. Although the terms of the competition required designs in keeping with heraldic and vexillological practice, the chosen insignia are an unheraldic emblem; they replaced the earlier emblem with the inscription “ЗАЈЕЧАР”, a tower and a sun. In the arms are hills with a river, a gold ancient helmet and a fountain. The flag is blue, in the proportion 2:3, with an orange Scandinavian cross and the city's insignia in an orange ring at the crossing of the arms.
Blazon
A shield with a blue border, in whose upper, green part are two hills, and between them winds a blue river descending from a gold sun with a green tower, placed at the top of the shield. The river continues as a blue pale dividing the lower, red part into two fields: in the dexter is a gold ancient helmet with a plume, and in the sinister a gold fountain with blue jets.
A blue flag in the proportion 2:3 with an orange Scandinavian cross, shifted towards the lance; at the crossing of the arms is a white circle with an orange border and the city's arms. The colours are prescribed as blue C 100 / M 100 / Y 0 / K 0 and orange C 0 / M 50 / Y 100 / K 0.
