The Official coat of arms consists of the historical coats of arms of three regions of Vojvodina: • The historical coat of arms of
Bačka consists of blue field on a green grass stands
Paul the Apostle wearing blue shirt and brown toga with golden nimbus holding in dexter a downward-pointed silver sword with golden hilt and Bible. It was granted by Emperor
Leopold I in 1699. • The historical coat of arms of
Banat consisted of the golden lion rampant on red holding a sabre. It denotes the land as the
Habsburg Emperor's personal possession (hence the lion, only without the crown, and the colours, or and gules reversed and azure excluded, or in its place), which is situated at the border with the
Ottoman Empire (hence the sabre in lion's paw). • The historical coat of arms of
Syrmia consists of three white stripes on blue, representing the three rivers of Syrmia:
Bosut,
Sava, and
Danube. A deer with a golden collar around his neck rests close to a green poplar (
topola) tree. Originally, the tree was a cypress tree but the modern design preferred to make it an oak tree, which is abundant in Syrmia and has connection to the Serbian royal
house of Karađorđević (which stems from a place named
Topola) as well. It was granted by Empress
Maria Theresa in 1747. The modern Croatian county of
Vukovar-Syrmia uses the same coat of arms. The Traditional coat of arms is red shield with the
Serbian cross crowned with a crown and surmounted by porphyry. It was used by the short-lived
Serbian Vojvodina in 1848-1849. It bears resemblance to the coat of arms of the
Principality of Serbia. ==History==