Serbia Flags – Serbian Flag, Crest Flag & Bunting

The Serbian flag: red, blue, white and the eagle

Serbia’s flag is a horizontal tricolour of red, blue and white, the Pan-Slavic colours in the order Serbia has used since the nineteenth century, with the lesser coat of arms set towards the hoist. The arms are a white double-headed eagle on a red shield under a crown, with a smaller shield on its breast bearing the Serbian cross: a white cross with four firesteels, the ocila, which are commonly read as the four Cyrillic S’s of the motto “Only unity saves the Serbs”. The tricolour was the flag of the Principality and Kingdom of Serbia, carried a red star through the Yugoslav decades, and the present version with the arms was adopted in 2004 and fixed in law in 2010. The plain tricolour without arms remains the civil flag. We stock both: the Serbia crest flag with the eagle, and the Serbia flag as a plain red, blue and white tricolour, each in the 2:3 proportion.

Statehood Day, Vidovdan and Wimbledon

Statehood Day, Sretenje, on 15 February is the national holiday when the flag is flown most, with Vidovdan on 28 June, Orthodox Christmas on 7 January and each family’s slava close behind. The Serbian community in Britain is centred on London, with the Serbian Orthodox churches in Ladbroke Grove and Birmingham, the Serbian Council of Great Britain and a run of restaurants and kafanas, and it marks all of these with flags out. Sport is where the Serbian flag is seen most by everyone else: the Wimbledon fortnight when Novak Djokovic’s box fills with red, blue and white; the Orlovi, the Eagles, at the World Cup and the Euros; and the basketball, water polo and volleyball teams that collect medals at every Olympics and world championship.

Crest or no crest?

The flag with the coat of arms is the state flag and the one most Serbians fly for national days and sport, so it is the one we put first. The plain tricolour is the civil flag and is correct for any use; it is also the cheaper option for bulk and the one to choose when you need the flag to read from either side without a mirrored crest. The Serbia and Montenegro flag, the blue, white and red of the 2003 to 2006 state union, is listed for completeness.

Sizes, grades and fittings

5ft x 3ft is the size for a pole, a church hall or a kafana wall; 3ft x 2ft for a short pole, a stall or a bedroom; 8ft x 5ft for a tall fixed pole or a stage; 20x12in for a car or hand pole. Flagtex is a printed woven polyester for events and short spells outside, DuraFlag the heavier knitted polyester with double-stitched edges for a flag on a pole all year. Both have a sewn header with brass eyelets; the DuraFlag can be ordered with clips or a rope and toggle.

Serbia bunting

Serbia bunting repeats the crest flag on rectangular pennants in 3m and 9m lengths, sewn to a tape in weatherproof polyester, for a slava, a wedding, a church fete or a tennis screening. Plain red, blue and white lengths from the bunting range extend a run along a long hall or a street.

Hand flags and table flags

Serbia hand flags on wooden sticks come in 9x6in and 18x12in with the crest, for Wimbledon queues, football and parades. The Serbia crest table flag and the plain Serbia table flag are 6x4in desk flags on a base for an office, a restaurant or a classroom, and the large wooden table flag at 18x12in suits a reception. Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia and Hungary are under world flags.

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• Serbia Crest Flag (20x12in to 8x5ft, 2 grades)from £6.99
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