Alenquer Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)
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Concelho de Alenquer, Distrito de Lisboa
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[](../images/p/pt-alq.gif)2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 15 May 2007
- About the flag
- Version without the coat of arms
- Presentation of Alenquer See also:
- Alenquer Communes
- Portugal External links:
- Page about Alenquer at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Nov 2001
About the flag
It is a fairly typical portuguese municipal flag, with thecoat of arms centered on a plain blue background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal_Diário da República : I Série_ in 1936.01.10.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 May 2007
Coat of arms
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image by Sérgio Horta, 16 May 2007
The arms are Or a castle Azure open and litten Or above a hound couchant Sable with its front legs crossed dexter over sinister and orle of fourteen natural (i.e., not heraldic) roses Gules leved Vert. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila de Alenquer".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 May 2007
Version without the coat of arms
Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999
Presentation of Alenquer
Alenquer municipality had 39 180 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 16 communes covering 302,18 km². It is part ofLisboa District, traditional provinceEstremadura, 1999 ref. adm. region Lisboa e Setúbal, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Lisboa, pre-2002 C.C.R. / NUTS II Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, and NUTS III Oeste.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 May 2007
The arms show an Alani wardog, for Alenquer was founded (or at least inhabited) by the host of Adax, being the capital of its brief kingdom in Hispania (in 408-429). (I have no idea about the roses; the castle may be a trivial reference.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 May 2007
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