u/Jaran_sa_Balkana

So, a bit of a background for my family so the design is more clear:

I'm from Serbia.

My ancestor came to Serbia during the First Serbian Uprising (a major uprising against the then ruling Ottomans), all the way from Russia, to fight against the Ottomans.

After the battle, he got a relatively large plot of land and stayed in Serbia.

He also gave up some of that land so a local church can be built, he likely even helped build it too (that explains the bell, as it comes from the church).

Now, some centuries later came the Communist period.

The then bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church, a rather influential one at that, Nikolaj Velimirović (you can look him up), as his documents that contained some holy manuscripts were being purged, had some of his men to come to this exact church, and they came with the intention to hide his documents there from the regime.

Where were the documents hidden?

IN THE CHURCH, explaining the red rhombus, it's supposed to look like a stylized piece of paper, aka the documents.

Now, as the area urbanized, our family still remained there.

Eventually, as streets were being paved, the street next to our family was named after us, because we're literally the only family living on it.

That explains the white line on the paper and in the background, it's the street.

Why does the line on the paper have 7 pointed out sections?

Well, my ancestor had seven sons in total that stayed, and helped cement our family right in the spot it still is in today.

Each point represents one of these sons.

The colours are white, blue, and red, to pay homage to our Russian heritage.

I redesigned this flag that i made for a protectorate that's a part of my world-building project.

The protectorate in question is the Kingdom of Rockford.

The Kingdom of Rockford is a nation with Germanic roots, and is one of the two protectorates of a larger nation (i can tell more about it in the comments if anyone's curious, but for now I'll leave it out).

The Kingdom of Rockford's flag features seven burgundy-white alternating stripes, on a black background.

4 burgundy, 3 white.

In the canton, a golden coat of arms with three, black peacock feathers.

The peacock is also the national animal, chosen for its prestige.

The older flag is in the second slide.

Thoughts?

Guess the church.

Here is my flag design for the Balkan peninsula: "The Three Ideals".

So, in the middle, is a golden honey spoon, with a red background.

This is because the name of the Balkans is thought to have come from the Turkish words for "blood (bal)", and "honey (kan)".

The honey spoon has three divisions, for the three ideals that a prosperous Balkan should operate on:

-Mutuality;

-Prosperity;

-Remembrance.

Translates into being mutuals, achieving prosperity, and remembering our heritage.

The diagonal blue sections with the white fimbration look like the rough shape of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, as the Balkans sit between these two seas.

It can also look like stylized mountains, as another theory suggests the name for the Balkans comes from "forested mountains".

It also shares at least one colour with every single country flag in the Balkans.

This is my simple flag redesign for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

So, the diagonal triband is based on the coat of arms of the Kotromanić family, the most influential dynasty in Bosnia, which also has a similar diagonal triband.

The three stripes represent the three ethnic groups, the Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians.

The colour of the stripe is based on the colour of the old Bosnia flag (red on top, yellow on bottom).

So, one day I wondered: what would our Cyrillic alphabet look like if we completely removed all the letters we share with the Latin alphabet?

Well, I did exactly that, and replaced them with letters mainly inspired by Glagolitic.

In the top left are our current letters, and in the center are my replacements.

Here is the logic behind these new letters:

A: An adaptation of the Glagolitic letter A.

V: It's meant to look like wavy water, because it's the beginning of the word "voda" (water).

E: It deliberately resembles the letter A, because vowels should have similar forms.

Z: An adaptation of the Glagolitic letter Z (I know we don't share the letter Z with Latin, but it looks too much like the number 3, and honestly, I think this version looks way better).

J: The letter Й, which used to be part of our alphabet, but here i brought it back.

K: An adaptation of the Glagolitic letter K.

M: I drew inspiration from my design for V.

N: It looks like an Old Church Slavonic depiction of the sky, because "nebo" (sky) starts with N. The dome-like shape is the sky, and the part in the middle is an abstract star.

O: A similar design to the other vowels.

R: Designed to look like a fish's tail, because "riba" (fish) starts with the letter R.

S: It looks like three crosses connected vertically, representing the word "sveto" (holy), which starts with the letter S.

T: Literally a larger version of the cursive lowercase letter T.

U: It looks like a mouth with a nose, because "usta" (mouth) starts with the letter U.

H: It looks like a temple dome with a cross on top, because "hram" (temple) starts with the letter H.

And that's it—no more letters shared with the Latin alphabet! :)

At the end, there is also a Glagolitic chart so you can easily see which letters inspired me. And as a bonus, at the very end is my name written in this new Serbian alphabet!

Can you read what it says? :)

Redizajnirao sam moju zastavu i moj grb za Mirijevo, naselje u opštini Zvezdara, grad Beograd.

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Ovo je simbolika redizajna:

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-Zlatno polje: predstavlja samo poreklo imena Mirijeva, što potiče od Turske reči "miri", što znači plodna zemlja u prevodu, a na toj plodnoj zemlji se naravno gajilo zlatno klasje.

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-Zelena linija dole: ova linija predstavlja samo Mirijevo, kao naselje.

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-Crveni klas u kantonu (ovaj predeo gore levo): e, ovaj klas, sa svojom crvenom bojom, predstavlja vino, jer je Mirijevo, pre no što je postalo deo Beograda, zapravo bilo puno vinograda na svim brdima, koji su na žalost nestali kao posledica urbanizacije.

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Ova crvena služi kao na podsednik od čega je Mirijevo počelo.

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Grb ima stilizovana brda Mirijeva sa crvenim talasima vina.

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Ja sam ovu zastavu i ovaj grb napravio zato što su moji preci na Mirijevu još od Prvog Srpskog Ustanka živeli, decenijama pre no što je Srbija i dobila nezavisnost od Osmanskog Carstva, pa sam, pošto se čisto bavim ovime kao hobi, odlučio da i moje Mirijevo zaslužilo da mu dam glas.

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To je bila i motivacija moje prve verzije zastave i grba (treći i četvrti slajd), mada nije baš lepo ispalo, pa sam odlučio opet da probam.

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I rekao bi da sam uspešno ulepšao moj rad.

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Ovo zovem "Zlatni Vinogradi", po zlatnom klasju, i izgubljenim Miriejvskim vinogradima.

It is i, the lad who designed the famed "anti-AI" flag.

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I've decided to once again try to design a flag dedicated to humanity, except this time, it focuses solely on humanity, instead of being anti-AI.

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The symbol in the middle looks like the head of a braincell, the one thing every human shares in common.

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The points can also look like individual circles, ties together by a link.

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It shows that unity is what makes us powerful.

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The colours:

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-Yellow for human creativity;

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-Blue for unity;

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-Red for the uniqueness within every human.

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Did i redeem myself?

Here is my flag redesign for Slovenia: "Shining Peaks".

The flag has the golden six pointed stars from the Celje coat of arms present, which can be found on the actual flag of Slovenia.

However, these three stars have been reimagined as the peaks of the Triglav mountain, also present on Slovenia's current flag.

Instead of the normal tricolour, i made the background blue, left side white, right side red.

The stars of Celje have these visible divisions that can be found on the historical coat of arms.

The second slide is the alternate version, and the third has the coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

The bottom part (one with three stars and moon) is the Slovenian coat of arms, from which i got the inspiration.

Here's my flag design for the Balkans: "Seas and Mountains".

The bottom part has a blue sea with three waves.

Each wave represents a sea:

-The Adriatic Sea, to the west;

-The Mediterranean to the south;

-The Black Sea to the east.

Above the sea are two mountains:

One red, one yellow.

They're here because the peninsula is named after the Balkan mountains.

One is red while the other is yellow for the name of the Balkans, which is thought to have been derived from the Turkish word for "blood and honey".

Though one can derive the yellow as rakija or a similar brandy.

The background is white to represent the unity of the peninsula.

This flag also contains either one or more colours that can be found on other Balkan flags.

Just thought I'd share, as a fellow Balkaner.