This is a list of Serbian flags used in the past and present. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Serbia .
National flags [ edit ]
Main article:
Flag of Serbia
Flag
Date
Use
Description
2010 – Present
State flag and ensign
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white with emblem left of center
2004 – Present
Civil flag and ensign
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white
Provincial flags [ edit ]
Governmental flags [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
2010 – Present
Standard of the President of Serbia
Square horizontal tricolour edged with greater arms
2010 – Present
Standard of the President of the National Assembly
Square horizontal tricolour with greater arms
Historical official flags [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
2004 – 2010
Republic of Serbia
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white, including the Serbian eagle.
1992 – 2004
Republic of Serbia
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white
1945 – 1992
Socialist Republic of Serbia
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white with red star in the center
1943 – 1945
Serbia under Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white with red star in the center
1941 – 1944
Government of National Salvation
horizontal tricolour with Serbian eagle in center, in a shield
1835 – 1918
Principality & Kingdom of Serbia
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white
Middle Ages [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1345–55
Flag of Emperor Stefan Dušan (divellion )
Emperor Dušan adopted the Imperial divellion , which was purple and had a golden cross in the center.[ 1]
1345–55
Flag of Emperor Stefan Dušan
Another of Dušan's flags was the Imperial cavalry flag, kept at the Hilandar monastery on Mount Athos ; a triangular bicolored flag, of red and yellow.[ 2]
1345–55
Alleged flag of Emperor Stefan Dušan
A flag in Hilandar , seen by Dimitrije Avramović, was alleged by the brotherhood to have been a flag of Emperor Dušan; it was red at the top and bottom and white in the center, a triband .[ 3]
1339
Flag of King Stefan Dušan
Red bicephalic eagle on a yellow field.[ 4] Angelino Dulcert 's 1339 map included the flag of Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia , who in 1345 became Emperor of Serbs and Greeks when he founded the Serbian Empire . The flag had a red double-headed eagle .[ 5] [ 6]
fl. 1233 – 1243
Flag of Stefan Vladislav (r. 1234–1243)
Horizontal bicolour of red and blue. Included in King Stefan Vladislav's Ragusan treasury was "a flag of red and blue colour"[ 3] ("vexillum unum de zendato rubeo et blavo " - a flag of fabric red and blue, zendato or čenda being a type of light, silky fabric[ 7] ). This is the first and oldest information on the colours of Serb flags.[ 3]
Municipalities and cities [ edit ]
Other flags [ edit ]
Voivode flag from the First Serbian Uprising.
Flag of the regular army from the First Serbian Uprising.
1804 flag from the First Serbian Uprising
Flag
Date
Use
Description
n/a
Serbian Orthodox Church
Horizontal tricolour with centered Serbian cross .
1992 –
Republika Srpska
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white.
1991 – 1995
Republic of Serbian Krajina
Horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and white.
2005 –
Flag of Serbs of Croatia
A tricolour of three equally sized horizontal red, blue and white.
1917
Royal Standard of Serbia
As described in 1917 by Byron McCandless , Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor : Flags of the World .
1869 – 1872
Civil flag of Serbia
Serbian tricolour with contemporary coat of arms and three six-pointed stars at the top.
1839
Flag of Serbia
Serbian tricolour with contemporary coat of arms and four six-pointed stars in the upper left.
1835
Flag of Serbia
Red, white and blue similar tricolour to the flags of Netherlands and Croatia , with Serbian coat of arms, Sretenje Constitution .
1815
Second Serbian Uprising
A red cross on white background. Used at Takovo in 1815.
1807 –
First Serbian Uprising
Red and white with cross, moon, sun and sword.
1804 – 1813
First Serbian Uprising
War flag during the First Serbian Uprising. Red background with two coat of arms (the Serbian cross and Triballian boar ) at the centre, Serbian Crown Jewels on the top and two Voivode flags on the bottom. Adopted as the flag of Topola .
References [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
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