Flag of Vojvodina
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The flag of Vojvodina is based on the Serbian flag. In the Flag of Serbia, all three coloured stripes are of equal width, but in the Flag of Vojvodina, the blue field (in the middle) is much wider. Its use of the colours of Serbian flag marks that Vojvodina is a part of Serbia.
It has three yellow stars which are representing: Bačka, Banat and Srem, parts of Vojvodina, but they also resemble the flag of EU, which signifies that Vojvodina is a European region, and that Vojvodina hopes to become a member of the EU sometime, as part of Serbia.
Historical flag
The historical flag of the Serbian Vojvodina was introduced in 1848. Originally, it was a flag of Sombor volunteers' regiment from 1848 and 1849, but it was also used as an unofficial flag of Serbian Vojvodina.
The coat-of-arms used on this flag was essentially the Austrian Habsburg imperial arms, with the coat-of-arms of the Serbs (Serbian cross, with four Cyrillic letters "S", reflecting the Serbian national motto "Only Unity Saves the Serbs" - Samo sloga Srbina spasava) on the chests of the black eagle. The bearer of the Serbian arms was the Austrian black eagle, instead of the Serbian white one, in order to show the fidelity of the newly established Voivodship to the Imperial Court in Vienna.
The coat-of-arms was simply added to the Serbian national tricolour. Thus the flag differed from the flag of the Principality of Serbia, which had a different arms in the middle of its state flag.¹
¹"Leksiklopedija" (column), TV Novosti magazine, Belgrade, 1991.
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