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![[Municipal flag]](../images/b/ba-rs-bl.gif)
Flag of Banja Luka - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 2 September 2008
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Quoting the municipal website:
The flag of the town of Banja Luka is blue-colored, rectangular in shape, proportions: two to one, with the town coat of arms in the middle of the flag, and the text below the arms: "Town [of] Banja Luka".
The use of the name and symbols of the town is regulated by the Decree on the use of symbols and name the Town of Banja Luka.
The flag appears to have come in at least four versions:
1. as described above, with color arms (official);
2. as described above, with color arms but minus the text (photo, photo);
3. monochrome, with white arms minus the text (photo);
4. monochrome vertical, with white arms and bilingual text, Serbian over English (photo);
5. white vertical, with color arms (photo).
Aleksandar Nemet & Eugene Ipavec, 17 June 2009
![[Municipal arms]](../images/b/ba)rs-bl.gif)
Coat of arms of Banja Luka - Image by Željko Heimer, 2 September 2008
Quoting the municipal website:
The coat of arms of the town consists of a blue field, in the shape of a shield, bordered by a gold band, with a view of the Ban's Palace in the upper part, as well as a chestnut leaf (symbol of Banja Luka aleja[?]), the castle (castrum), an ancient Roman fortress, and at the bottom of the shield, the stylized line of river Vrbas. The central part of the coat of arms symbolizes the foundations [floorplan] of the Sabor [meeting] church, white-colored, and in the middle of the foundations a cross, with the ocila, red-colored.
Aleksandar Nemet & Eugene Ipavec, 17 June 2009
Coat of arms of Banja Luka
The pre-war coat of arms exists in green (image, image) and red (image) versions.
This design is the origin of the new coat of arms, made more Serbian.
Aleksandar Nemet & Željko Heimer, 17 June 2009
