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Ivan Sache, 8
May 2022
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Ivan Sache, 8
May 2022
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From 2022 the municipality has used a new flag:
https://www.recmedia.rs/bajina-basta-pred-lokalne-izbore/
https://taradrina.com/radno-vreme-tic-bajina-basta-za-praznike/
It shows a white eagle-lion rampant armed yellow on a blue over red field with a yellow firesteel in the upper hoist.
Tomislav Šipek, 8 May 2022
On the photo, the vertical flag is in proportion 12:5 and not 2:1 (the Serbian flag is!), and, therefore, with rectangular and not square fields.
The municipality of Bajina Bašta (26,043 inhabitants in 2011, 9,148 in the
town of Bajina Bašta; 31,300 ha) is located on the border with Bosnia and
Herzegovina, 50 km north-west of Zlatibor and 180 km south-west of Belgrade.
Bajina Bašta was first settled in the early Neolithic by farmers from the
Starčevo culture. Known in science as Kremenilo, the settlement is located in
today's Višesava, 2.5 km away from the center of Bajina Bašta. Excavations
performed during the 1960s showed the continuity of the settlement throughout
the Neolithic until the transition to the Metal Age. The settlement of Jovin
Breg originates from the transition period; pottery reveals the connections of
this settlement with the inhabitants of Pannonia. Some of the archeological
findings from Kremenilo and Jovin Breg are exhibited in the hallway of the
elementary school "Rajak Pavićević" in Bajina Bašta.
The modern town of
Bajina Bašta was established by a Decision issued on 12 July 1858 by Prince
Alexander Karađorđević (1806-1885, r. 1842-1858). The seat of the county seat
was moved from Rogačica, a settlement located about 12 km downstream from Bajina
Bašta, to Bajina Bašta.
There are several legends about the origin of the
name of the town, lit. Baja's Garden. It is most often alleged that in Turkish
times, in the area of today's town, a Turk named Baja had large gardens, so the
name Bajina Bašta remained.
Intensive economic development began in Bajina
Bašta in 1966, when the Perućac hydroelectric power plant, the second largest in
Serbia, was ceremoniously put into operation.
https://bajinabasta.rs
Municipal
website
The most significant and most attractive cultural and historical
landmark on the territory of Bajina Bašta is the Rača monastery. The church of
the Ascension of Christ is located in the village of Rača, 6 km, west of Bajina
Bašta, on the slopes of Tara, the place where river Rača flows out of its
picturesque canyon.
According to tradition, the monastery was built by King
Stefan Dragutin (1244-1316, r. 1276-1282) in the second half of the 13th
century. During its history, the monastery was demolished twice to its
foundations, only to get its present physiognomy in 1835. During the Second
World War, Miroslav's Gospel, the oldest Serbian book written in the 12th
century, was hidden from the Germans here. Some of the holy relics of King
Dragutin have recently been found in the sanctuary.
Before the First Serbian
Uprising, the monastery was renovated by Abbot Hadži Melentije Stevanović
(1766-1824, one of the leaders of the uprising against the Turks, subsequently
Metropolitan of Belgrade (1810-1813). Burned in 1813 by the Turks as a
retaliation, the monastery was rebuilt the same year by Miloš Obrenović
(1783-1860).
The most valuable items in the monastery's collection are the
Russian edition of the Gospel from the 12th century and the flag of Hadži
Melentije Stevanović from the First Serbian Uprising. The interior of the
monastery is decorated with icons and frescoes; the iconostasis featuring two
icons of Jesus and the Mother of God, designed in 1840 by Georgije Bakalović
(1786-1843), is considered one of the most beautiful in Serbia.
The flag
and arms of Bajina Bašta are prescribed by a Decision issued by the Municipal
Assembly in June 2021, with effect on 1 January 2022, ending a process that
lasted more than four years.
The lesser coat of arms (shield) is composed
of a red field with a griffin argent as the main charge. A symbol of guardian of
knowledge and wisdom, the griffin primarily alludes to the Rača monastery, which
during its long existence was the center of spirituality and guardian of
knowledge in this part of the world.
Next to the griffin, the Bajina Bašta
hydroelectric power plant is represented by crossed lightning, being the largest
source of income for the municipality and also of national significance. In
base, the fess wavy argent represents river Drina.
The shield is supported by
two animals emblematic of the fauna of the Tara National Park. The eagle is also
one of the symbols featured on the Serbian coat of arms, while the wolf has
often been used as a symbol of Serbian flames. Both animals are blue, so in
combination with other elements of the coat of arms, the colors of the Serbian
flag are obtained. The wolf holds the Serbian state flag while the eagle holds
the flag of Bajina Bašta, which uses the colors of Hadži Melentije's flag from
1807, on which the symbol of the griffin is repeated. The S-shaped firesteel
featured in canton is a clear reminiscence of the Serbian national coat of arms.
The shield is surmounted by a mural crown argent, which heraldically
represents the population of the municipality of Bajina Bašta. Beneath the
shield are represented the mountain peaks of the Tara National Park, covered
with dense coniferous forests.
The scroll is inscribed with the name of the
municipality written in letters similar to those in which Miroslav's Gospel was
written.
https://zoomue.rs/bajina-basta-dobila-grb-i-zastavu
Drina Info, 22 June
2021
Ivan Sache, 8 May 2022
![[Emblem]](../images/r/rs-bbast).gif)
image located by Valentin Poposki, 10 May 2022
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set, collected from the official municipal
websites or Facebook/Twitter profiles.
Valentin Poposki, 10 May 2022
![[Flag]](../images/r/rs-bbast.png)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 10 September 2015
The previous flag of Bajina Bašta (photo, photo) was white with the municipal coat of arms in the middle.
Tomislav Šipek, 10 September 2015
