Coat o airms o North Macedonie

The coat o airms o the Republic o Macedonie is componed o twa curved garlands o sheaves o wheat, tobacco leafs an opium poppy fruits, tied bi a ribbon decoratit wi embroidery o tradeitional Macedonian folk motifs. In the centre o the ovoid frame is depict a muntain, a loch an a sunrise.A quotation from the 8th Article of the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia The emblem is framed bi a garland o ears o wheat, tobacco an opium poppy fruits, tied bi a ribbon wi the pattern o a traditional costume. In the centre o the circular space there are muntains, rivers, lakes an the sun; whaur the ears join there wis a red five-pointit starn. Aw this represents "the richness o oor kintra, the struggle an the freedom. Thir devices is said tae represent "the richness o oor kintra, oor struissle an oor freedom".

The Macedonian parliament adoptit the proposal tae chynge the kintra’s coat o airms wi 80 votes in favor an 18 against, remuivin the five-pointit starn. The Naitional Emblem wis modified on 16 November 2009. The Macedonian coat o airms that includit the reid starn haed been in uise syne 1946, shortly efter the republic became pairt o the umwhile Socialist Federal Republic o Yugoslavie (SFRY). Wi the recent chynge, the coat o airms is componed o twa curved garlands o wheat sheaves, tobacco leafs an opium poppy fruits, tied bi a ribbon decoratit wi embroidery o traditional Macedonian folk motifs. A lake, a muntain, an a sunrise are depictit in the centre o the ovoid frame.

The whole composition an design is based on the pattern o the coat o airms o the SFR Yugoslavie an daes no hae ony ruits in the historical heraldic coats o airms o Macedonie. Besides the emblem o Belaroushie, the device o the Republic o Macedonie is ane o the few remainin in Europe tae still employ socialist imagery an stylistics.

The features o the naitional coat o airms contain a risin sun that seembolizes freedom, the Šar Muntains wi its peak named Ljuboten or Munt Korab an the river Vardar,World Around Us — the Encyclopaedia for Children and Youth, XI edition, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1987, vol. II (A-M), page 242http://www.heraldika.org.mk/Drzaven.htm  Со замената на сликата се менува и објаснувањето, Пирин преоѓа во Кораб. wi Lake Ohrid. The emblem contains opium poppy fruits an aa; this poppy wis brocht tae Macedonie bi the Ottoman Empire in the first hauf o 19t century.Agricultural Encyclopaedia, Yugoslavian Lexicographical Institute, Zagreb, 1970, vol. II (Krm-Proi), page 131, Author of the article on Poppy is Jordan Đorđevski, dipl. ing. agr., professor of the Agricultural and Forestry Faculty of the University of Skopje, Macedonia

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