Coat of arms of Triballia

The Coat of arms of Triballia (Serbian: Грб Трибалије/Grb Tribalije or Грб Тривалије/Grb Trivalije) is a historical coat of arms attributed to medieval Serbia by various armorials, and is today depicted in several Serbian municipality coat of arms in Šumadija. The motif is of a severed (cabossed or erased) wild boar's head with an arrow in its mouth or through its head.

Government seal during the First Serbian Uprising (1805–1813)

The Triballi were an ancient tribe whose name was used as an exonym for the Serbs by archaizing Byzantine authors in the Middle Ages.[1] The Triballian coat of arms depicts the head of a boar pierced by an arrow.[2] In the Chronicle of the Council of Constance from 1415, the motif is used as the coat of arms of the Serbian Despotate and is recalled in one of Stefan Lazarević's personal seals. It was used for historical Serbia in numerous armorials dating between the 15th and 18th centuries. The Habsburg Monarchy adopted it into their flag of Serbia (as claimants), one of the flags given to an honorary flag-bearer during the coronation of the Hungarian king, since 1563. It was adopted by Karađorđe[3] into the seal of the Revolutionary Serbian government, alongside the Serbian cross.[4]

Examples

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  Serbian emperor, Prussian ed. Chronicle of the Council of Constance (before 1437)
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  Serbia, later ed. Chronicle of the Council of Constance (1483)
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  Serbia (Triballia), Wernigeroder Schaffhausensches Wappenbuch (between 1486 and 1492)
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  Serbia, by Johann von Francolin (ca. 1565)
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  Serbian emperor, by Christoph Silberysen (1576)
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  Serbia, by Martin Schrott (ca. 1580)
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  Unnamed, by Jerome de Bar (1604)
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  Sketch of flag of Serbia used at the coronation of Ferdinand II (1618).
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  Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Serbia (1718–39)
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  Triballian coat of arms, Stemmatographia (1741)
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  Sketch of flag of Serbia used at the coronation of Leopold II (1790).

Serbian municipalities

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  Coat of arms of Velika Plana.
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  Coat of arms of Barajevo.
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  Coat of arms of Kragujevac.
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  Coat of arms of Voždovac.

See also

• List of coats of arms of Serbia
• Serbian eagle
• Serbian cross

References

1. Papazoglu 1978, p. 9.
2. Danko Popović; Dinko Davidov (2004). Studije o srpskoj umetnosti XVIII veka. Српска књижевна задруга. p. 18.
3. Vanja Kraut; Miodrag Đorđević; Rade Rančić (1985). Istorija srpske grafike od XV do XX veka. Narodni muzej. p. 73.
4. SANU (1957). Posebna izdanja. SANU. p. 130.

Sources

• Dragomir M. Acović (2008). Heraldika i Srbi. Zavod za udžbenike. ISBN 978-86-17-15093-6.
• Aleksandar Palavestra (2010). Илирски грбовници и други хералдички радови. Завод за уџбенике. ISBN 978-86-17-17266-2.
• Papazoglu, Fanula (1978). The Central Balkan Tribes in pre-Roman Times: Triballi, Autariatae, Dardanians, Scordisci and Moesians. Amsterdam: Hakkert.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)