Coat of arms of Bulgaria

The current coat of arms of Bulgaria in use since 31 July 1997.

  • 2.1 Coat of Arms of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
  • 2.2 Formulation of the current coat of arms

Description

In the red escutcheon a golden silver langued reinforced gold crowned lion. Supporters are two golden rotgezungte silver reinforced gold -winning lion, is over the crest the golden crown with the orb on the crown center of the living in the 14th century ruler Ivan Schischman. The lion standing on crossed oak branches where a banner is in the national colors with the motto in golden letters in Bulgaria.

Symbolism

The three lions represent the largest areas of Bulgaria: Misija, Thrace and Macedonia. The crown above it symbolizes the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire, during which the country experienced the liberation of Byzantium and its greatest extent.

Historical coat of arms of Bulgaria

Coat of Arms of Bulgaria under Ottoman rule, from a map by Vincenzo Coronelli, 1692

Coat of arms of Bulgaria according Hristaki Pavlovich, 1844

Principality of Bulgaria (1878-1908) and UK ( Tsarist ) Bulgaria ( 1908-1927 )

Kingdom ( Tsarist ) Bulgaria ( 1927-1946 )

Hugo Gerard Ströhl: Heraldic Atlas. Stuttgart 1899: Crown of the semi-sovereign Prince of Bulgaria ( the Ottoman Empire ), from 1908, the Bulgarian tsar crown in the emblem

Coat of Arms of the People's Republic of Bulgaria

During the communist period (1946-1990) the coat of arms was changed three times, but the basic principles remain the same. As always, a coat of arms was used, which closely modeled on the Soviet Union. The first coat of arms, adopted in 1948, shows a golden lion on a red field, surrounded by a wound in a red tape garland of corn, which allied the date " 9.IX.1944 ," the victory of the armed uprising of the day with Hitler contains monarchy. Between the tips of the ears branches you put a red five-pointed star.

In 1947 the coat of arms was modified, where you changed the color of the field in blue, a portion of the red band in the Bulgarian national colors and put a gear under the lion. In 1971 the coat of arms was redesigned again, the red star was surrounded by yellow and the two -year figures attached " 681 " ( Recognition Year of the First Bulgarian Empire by the Byzantine Empire ) and " 1944 " in Arabic numerals.

Coat of Arms of Bulgaria 1948

Coat of Arms of Bulgaria 1948-1968

Coat of Arms of Bulgaria 1968-1971

Coat of Arms of Bulgaria 1971-1990

Formulation of today's coat of arms

In 1990, when the communist regime was eliminated, a preliminary coat of arms was adopted. It is the previous coat of arms, but without the socialist insignia as red star and red ribbon with the years.

The Bulgarian parliament took seven years to agree on this coat of arms.

It is the first official coat of arms since the collapse of the Eastern bloc and strongly resembles the coat of arms already in use from 1908 to 1944 of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

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A European non-member of the United Nations: Vatican City

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Disputed territories: Kosovo | Transnistria

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