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Page created: 13th October 2000 Last updated: 12th July 2011
The FAME is a site devoted to the systematic and scientific study of flags and coats of arms. Such symbols often bear strong political and other messages. Inclusion of those symbols here does not mean that the author supports or approves of the ideas they may stand for.	This site is harvested for the NSK digital archives.

Sarajevo Canton - Communities

Sarajevski kanton - opcine

• Grad Sarajevo
  • Sarajevo, 199x – 1998
  • Sarajevo, 197x – 199x
• Centar
  • Centar, ceremonial flag proposal, 1999
• Hadžici
• Ilidža
• Ilijaš
• Novi Grad
• Novo Sarajevo
• Stari Grad
• Trnovo
• Vogošca

• Sarajevo Canton
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnia and Herzegovina

Grad Sarajevo

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The coat of arms pictures the city roofs that in the same time represent the hills surrounding Sarajevo, the civic walls with doors and the bridged river of Miljacka. The coat of arms is, presumably, adopted in 1970 (then shown on Yugoslav post stamps issued on 25 years of liberation of the city). The flag was adopted probably at the same time. The coat of arms of that time included also a red five-pointed star between the roofs-hills. After the independence, the star is replaced with a golden fleur-de-lis. In general trend of removing of the national(istic) symbols, induced by international supervision for Bosnia and Herzegovina in second half of 1990's, the fleur-de-lis was dropped too. (The colouring of the coat of arms is unconfirmed.)

The City of Sarajevo is a supra-communal body - the capital of the Sarajevo Canton, of the Federation of B&H and of Bosnia and Herzegovina, composed of four communities: Centar, Novi Grad, Novo Sarajevo and Stari Grad.

Sarajevo, 199x – 1998

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Sarajevo, 197x – 199x

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Centar

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The coat of arms is vert base gules divided with a wavy bar azure fimbriated argent and overall a golden stylized three with two birds. The wavy bar represents the Miljacka river and the tree is a copy of a tree found on a medieval stone monuments known as stecci, preserved in the Land Museum in Sarajevo. The flag is blue, white and golden/yellow tricolour divided diagonally with the coat of arms in the middle.

Centar, ceremonial flag proposal, 1999

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The ceremonial flag proposed in 1999 was similar to the finally adopted one, bearing the lighter shades of blue and yellow (probably as the originally proposed normal flag) and having a ceremonial varison of the coat of arms in the middle. Nither the ceremonial coat of arms nor the ceremonial flag were adopted in the end.

Hadžici

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The coat of arms of Hadžici is a shield depicting masoned wall with gates infront of snow toped green mountains under the blue sky with a golden crescent and star, bordered orange. The flag is a green-white-green triband with the coat of arms in its centre.

Ilidža

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The coat of arms of Ilidža is argent Amour tenne riding a sea lion sable and in the base a bridge also sable. The design of Amour and sea lion is from a Roman mosaic of 3rd century found in Ilidža, the bridge represents the so called Roman bridge over Bosna river. The flag is white with the coat of arms in its center, both horizontal and vertical variant is prescribed. While the descision do not prescribe inscriptions, the flags in use include the name of the municipality in several variations.

Ilijaš

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Ilijaš pictures a white dove of peace reborn from flames and a fleur-de-lis.

Novi Grad

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The coat of arms of Novi Grad Sarajevo is per chevron twice angeled azure and argent and overall issuant from the base a dome with a pointed tower or between four (two and two) piles inverted also or. The colours are those from the national flag of Bosnia and Hezegovina. It depicts stylized urban setllement, a mosque, a church and a dome. It also refers to the sun as the source of life. The flag, status of which is unclear, is used as light blue, vertical and horizontal, with the coat of arms in its centre.

Novo Sarajevo

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The coat of arms of Novo Sarajevo pictures the modern sights of the city - the telecommunications tower at the Hum hill, the building of the power company Elektroprivreda BiH and the bridge over the Miljacka river. The flag is light blue horizontal or vertical flag with the white bordered coat of arms in the centre of it.

Stari Grad

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The coat of arms of Stari Grad Sarajevo is vert a dome issuant argent and in the chief sinister a felur de lis of the same. A dome is charachteristic for the traditional architecture of the old city of Sarajevo. The flag is white with the coat of arms in its centre. It is used in several slight variations - regarding the colouring of the dome (white, gray or graduated), with or without inscription over the shield and in horizontal and vertical variation.

Trnovo

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The coat of arms pictures mountains and canyons of Rakitnica and Bijela rivers with a grave-stone stecak. The flag is green-white-blue vertically divided tricolour with the coat of arms in the centre of it.

Vogošca

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The coat of arms of Vogošca depicts in a green shield white modern residential, sports and industry buildings insfront of two golden needle-like arches ringed where they intersect, above a series of hoizontal golden lines, the date 24.06. on a white ribbon infront of a silver cog wheel and golden fluer de lis and flanked with golden wheat ear and decidious branch in base. In the chief there is the municipality name inscribed white between three stars on each side. The flag is white with the coat of arms in its centre, in vertical and horizontal versions.

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