page_title: Serbian heraldry
section_title: Socialist Yugoslavia
hierarchical_section_title: Serbian heraldry / History / Socialist Yugoslavia
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Државни грб Народне Републике Србије English: State Coat of Arms of the People's Republic of Serbia
context_page_description: The use of heraldry in Serbia or by Serbs is used by government bodies, subdivisions of the national government, organizations, corporations and by families. Serbian heraldry belongs culturally to the Byzantine tradition.
  As in some other European heraldic traditions, the most prominent among the animals is the eagle.
  The most prominent symbols is the Serbian eagle and the Serbian cross.
context_section_description: Derived from the traditional shield of arms of Serbia with 4 fire steels (but without the cross). The Serbian cross was removed for ideological reasons of socialist atheism. It was placed above a rising sun with a cog wheel symbolizing the workers and surrounded with a golden wreath of maize and oak leaves, oak being a sacred Serbian tree. A red ribbon with dates 1804 and 1941 which refer to the dates of the first Serbian uprising against the Ottomans and the national uprising against the axis powers in the Second World War.
caption: State Coat of Arms of the People's Republic of Serbia, 1947
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