The coat of arms of the Republika Srpska shows, on a red shield, overheaded by the Karadjordjevic crown, a bicephalic silver eagle in take off, armed with gold, with golden tongue and legs, the chest covered by a red shield with the Serbian cross, a silver cross with four symmetric letters S in cyrillic script.
The Coat of Arms of Serbia, adopted on August 17, 2004, is a replica of the coat of arms of the former Obrenovic dynasty (first adopted in 1882) and features the white bicephalic eagle of the Nemanjić dynasty (which in turn took on the eagle from the Paleologos dynasty of the Byzantine Empire).
The coat of arms featured a shield with the traditional Serbian emblem, but since the socialist government officially espoused atheism, the cross, which represents Christianity, was omitted.
The socialist coat of arms remained in official use long after the break-up of socialist Yugoslavia and after the red star was removed from the flag.
On January 9, 1992, the Bosnian Serb Assembly adopted a declaration on the Proclamation of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (RepublikaSrpska Bosne i Hercegovine).
The legal existence and independence of RepublikaSrpska was recognized by the Agreed Basic Principles issued on September 8, 1995, and the Further Agreed Basic Principles issued on September 26, 1995, and was confirmed by the Dayton Peace Agreement.
RepublikaSrpska has maintained its territorial and legal continuity since it was proclaimed as a state on January 9, 1992, and the constitution adopted in 1992 (as amended) remains in force to this day.
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