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The Serbian Cross is a national symbol of Serbia, part of the coat of arms and flag of Serbia, and of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is based on the tetragrammic cross emblem/flag of the Byzantine Palaiologos dynasty, with the difference that in Serbian use the cross is usually white on a red background, rather than gold on a red background.
It is composed of a cross symbol with four "fire striker" shapes, originally four Greek letters beta.
Serbian tradition attributes the letters to Saint Sava, the 13th-century Metropolitan of Žiča and Archbishop of the Serbs. Popular tradition also interprets the four "fire striker" shapes as four Cyrillic letters "S" , for the motto Samo sloga Srbina spasava. The double-headed eagle and the cross are the main heraldic symbols which have represented the national identity of the Serb people across the centuries.