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the coat of arms. One was the already mentioned
heraldic seal, and the other one was
“the ancient coat of arms of the town”. “The
ancient coat of arms of the town”, as interpreted
by Đorđe Stratimirović, was actually
is based on a coin depicting a Roman soldier
holding hands on the hips of a bull and
a horse. Above everything is the inscription
Taurunum, i.e. Zemun. The second proposal
was not approved, and the one with three
mosques was accepted, with the removal of
the slogan “Sub umbra alarum tuarum” and
replacement of the circular inscription on
the stamp with the text: “Alba Graeca Recuperata
Anno MDCCHVII”.
In accordance with the Belgrade Peace
Treaty from 1739, the Turks return to the
city, and the issue of the coat of arms is sidelined
again.
The beginning of the 19 th century brings
new winds to the Balkans. Serbia, first the
one of Karađorđe, then the one of Miloš, adopted
all European attributes of statehood,
including, of course, and the state insignia.
With the adoption of the constitution of Sretenje
in 1835, Serbia finally received its coat
of arms and flag. A coat of arms of Belgrade
was not even contemplated then because the
municipal authorities had considered themselves
part of the state administration and
used state symbols in their work. (A good
example is the stamp of the Belgrade magistrate
from 1807). That is why, in the coming
decades, Belgrade, along with Athens, was
one of the few European capitals that did not
have its own coat of arms.
On the occasion of the 300 th anniversary
of the Turkish burning of the relics of Saint
Sava in Belgrade, in 1895 Đorđe Stratimirović
publicly proposed to include the first archbishop
of the Serbian Orthodox Church on
the coat of arms of the Serbian capital:
“The coat of arms, as we imagine it in
heraldry, would consist of a simple shield
with vertical image of St. Sava, according to
the standards of painting from our ancient
monasteries. The field of the shield is blue,
the saint in gold attire, standing at the gold
ambo; in the top corners of the shield there
is inscription in old-fashioned gold lettering:
Saint Sava; the top of the shield is the golden
crown of the city.”
Although this idea did not meet with approval,
it is significant in the heraldic history
of Belgrade as the first proposal of a
Serb for the image of the coat of arms of
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