Coat o airms o Serbie

The Coat o airms o Serbie is the same as the coat o airms o the umwhile Obrenović dynasty (first adoptit in 1882; re-adoptit in 2004) an features the white bicephalic eagle o the Hoose o Nemanjić. An ermine cape o the style ance worn bi keengs is featured in the backgrund. The double-heidit eagle haes been uised since Byzantine times, the Serbian cross haes been uised since the 12t century. In November 2010 the coat o airms wis redesigned accordin tae heraldic experts. ^[1]

[edit] Design

The principal field stands for the Serbian State. It consists o a double-heidit eagle on a red shield; its body an wings in silver, an tongues, beaks, legs an claws in gold, atween twa golden fleurs-de-lys. The inescutcheon stands for the Serbian Naition; in a red shield, a cross atween fower silver firesteels arranged in the quarters aroond it, aw o them facin horizontally ootwards.

A blazon in heraldic terms is: Gules, a bicephalic eagle Argent armed Or, twa fleurs-de-lys Or. Oweraw an escutcheon Gules, a cross Argent atween fower firesteels Argent. Aw crouned wi a ryal croun. The design on the inescutcheon haes been uised bi Serbian states an the Serbian kirk since the Middle Ages. The fower shapes aroond the central cross are firesteels, but they are commonly referred tae as Cyrillic letters С. They actually oreeginate frae the Greek letter B (beta) frae the phrase: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣΙΝ (The Keeng o Keengs rules ower Keengs), as oreeginally uised on the banner o the Palaiologos dynasty o Byzantine Empire.

Although Serbie is nou a republic, the new coat o arms an aa features the croun o the umwhile Serbian monarchy. While unuisual for republics, it is no unprecedentit.