Roofs that are hills, a wall and a bridge over the river: the blue flag of Sarajevo sums up in its coat of arms what the city is like.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 1:2 ratio, light blue, with the coat of arms of the city in the centre.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
After the war in Bosnia (1992-1995), Sarajevo renewed its symbols
The city Assembly first approved a provisional decision on 28 March 1998
The 2000 rule explains the coat of arms part by part
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is light blue with the coat of arms of the city in the centre. The coat of arms has no lions or crowns: it is almost a drawing of the city, with its hills, its wall and the river that crosses it.
After the war in Bosnia (1992-1995), Sarajevo renewed its symbols. The city Assembly first approved a provisional decision on 28 March 1998, and the definitive one on 21 November 2000. That rule says the flag is light blue, with the coat of arms in the centre and a 1:2 ratio.
The coat of arms of the city has changed with every regime, and the flag with it.
1965-1990
Red flag with the socialist-era coat of arms: red wall, green river and a red five-pointed star among the rooftops.
1990s
During the war the socialist star is removed and a golden fleur-de-lis is put in its place. The lower part of the coat of arms becomes blue.
2000
Light blue flag with the current coat of arms, with no star or fleur-de-lis.
The 2000 rule explains the coat of arms part by part.
Green triangles
the typical rooftops of the city, which are also the hills that surround it.
Wall with gates
the walls of the city, its symbol.
River with bridge
the valley the river runs through, with the bridge on which Sarajevo was built.
The drawing of the rooftops, the wall and the bridge comes from the coat of arms of 1965. In 2000 the political additions were removed and the colours changed.
In the war of the 1990s the red star of the socialist coat of arms was replaced by a golden fleur-de-lis, the symbol of the old kings of Bosnia.
The rule does not say how the flag should be hung, and in the city it is seen both horizontally and vertically.
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Text based on the article “Sarajevo (Town, Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina) — Flags of the World” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
Flag image: derivative work: Time3000 (talk) Coat_of_arms_of_Sarajevo.svg: User:MesserWoland, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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