Coat of arms of Triballia

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

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 Triballi were an ancient tribe whose ethnonym was used as an exonym for Serbs by the Byzantines in the Middle Ages.^[1] The Triballian coat of arms depicts the head of a boar pierced by an arrow.^[2] It was adopted by Karađorđe^[3] into the seal of the Revolutionary Serbian government (the Praviteljstvujušči sovjet serbski), alongside the Serbian cross.^[4]

Historical coats of arms

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  Serbian Emperor's coa, Prussian ed. Chronicle of the Council of Constance (before 1437)

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  Serbian coat of arms, later ed. Chronicle of the Council of Constance (1483)

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  Serbian (Triballia) coat of arms, Wernigeroder Schaffhausensches Wappenbuch (between 1486 and 1492)

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  Serbian coat of arms, by Johann von Francolin (ca. 1565)

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  Serbian Emperor's coa, by Christoph Silberysen (1576)

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  Serbia, by Martin Schrott (ca. 1580)

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  Unnamed coat of arms (of Triballia), by Jerome de Bar (1604)

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  Triballian coat of arms, Stemmatographia (1741)

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. Fanula Papazoglu (1978). The Central Balkan Tribe in Pre-Roman Times: Triballi, Autariatae, Dardanians, Scordisci and Moesians. Hakkert. p. 9–. ISBN 978-90-256-0793-7.
2. Danko Popović; Dinko Davidov (2004). Studije o srpskoÇ° umetnosti XVIII veka. Српска књижевна задруга. p. 18.
3. Vanja Kraut; Miodrag ĐorÄ‘ević; Rade Rančić (1985). Istorija srpske grafike od XV do XX veka. Narodni muzej. p. 73.
4. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti (1957). Posebna izdanja. p. 130.

Sources

• Aleksandar Palavestra (2010). Илирски грбовници и други хералдички радови. Завод за уџбенике. ISBN 978-86-17-17266-2.
• Dragomir M. Acović (2008). Heraldika i Srbi. Zavod za udžbenike. ISBN 978-86-17-15093-6.