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Bosnia and Herzegovina - Republic of Serbska

Republika Srpska

by Zeljko Heimer 27-NOV-1995

Status of the flag
Reported flags
SDS flag

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Status of the flag

The flag with St. Sava cross (BTW, the cross have nothing to do with St. Sava, it was so named after the saint patron of Serbia by heraldrists and vexillologists, for convinance in similarity with British crosses) is unofficial, but in early 1990's very often used. The official flag is simple tricolour.

Zeljko Heimer 27-NOV-1995

Reported flags

Last night I was watching the news on TV when they carried an article on a rally of Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo, and as you would expect it was a veritable vex-fest with much flag-waving going on.

However, I noticed that a number of the usual Serb tricolours were adorned with an emblem I have not seen discussed here. It was a small equi-dimensional cross in the centre extending slightly more than the width of the central stripe, and in each angle was a circle.

C. Veale 30-NOV-1995

The other day on the news I saw some suburban Sarajevo Serbs (say that 3 times fast) protesting that a unified Sarajevo will be granted to the Muslim-Croat federation under the Dayton peace accords.

They were waving what I assumed to be a Serb flag: white stripe on top, blue in the middle, red on the bottom. There was no arms on the flag, as we have previously seen. How is this flag different from the Russian Federation?

Josh Fruhlinger 26-NOV-1995

IMHO, what you saw was the red blue white flag turned upside down. From my expiriance, some people in ex-Yu don't give much attention to how the flags are flown.

The cross and circles device must be the cross and 4 C's (firestalkers). More on this see on Republic of Serb Krajina and Serbia pages.

Zeljko Heimer 01-DEC-1995

SDS flag

The SDS flag is standard Serbian tricolour red over blue over white, with yellow device in the middle made of cyrillic letters SDS (S in cyrillic is as latin C, and D is similar to greek delta with some 'pins' streching down, therfore it is also similar to latin A). SDS stands for Srpska Demokratska Stranka - Serb Democratic Party - a party lead by Radovan Karadzic in Bosina, and the ideological 'avantguard' of Serbian doings in the war in Bosnia (and in Croatia, the rebels were lead by SDS, too). The flag is in use since 1990 or begining 1991 when the party was formed.

Zeljko Heimer 05-JUL-1996