Belgrade (City, Serbia and Montenegro [Serbia])

City of Belgrade - Grad Beograd

Last modified: 2004-11-06 by ivan sache
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by Jorge Hurtado

• History of the coat of arms and flag of Belgrade
  • Early symbols
  • Symbols adopted in 1931
  • Symbols adopted in 1991
  • Legal provisions
• Greater and middle coat of arms of Belgrade

See also:

• Serbia and Montenegro
• Serbia
• Municipalities in the city of Belgrade
  • Čukarica
  • Lazarevac
  • Mladenovac
  • New Belgrade (Novi Beograd)
  • Obrenovac
  • Rakovica
  • Stari Grad
  • Vračar
• FK Partizan Belgrade

History of the coat of arms and flag of Belgrade

Early symbols

In Belgrade, one of the oldest European cities, on the crossroads of East and West, the first mention of the Belgrade coat of arms originates from the time of the son of emperor Lazarus (Lazar), despot Stephen (Stefan) Lazarević, when Belgrade became the capital of the Serbian state for the first time (1403), but until today i