Montemor-o-Velho Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)
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Concelho de Montemor-o-Velho, Distrito de Coimbra
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[![[Montemor-o-Velho municipality]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt-mmv.gif)
](../images/p/pt-mmv.gif)2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 29 Oct 1999
- About the Flag
- Version without Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Montemor-o-Velho See also:
- Montemor-o-Velho Communes
- Portugal External links:
- Page about Montemor-o-Velho at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
About the Flag
It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered yellow over black (town rank).
Sérgio Horta, 8 Dec 1999
Coat of arms
[![[Montemor-o-Velho municipality CoA]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt-mmv)
On a purple field, a golden castle charged with a quina (11 circles) over silver-blue-silver waves and on both sides a golden fleur de lis, silver mural crown with four visible towerstown rank and a white scroll with black upper case letters "VILA DE MONTEMOR-O-VELHO".
Sérgio Horta, 8 Dec 1999
Flag and arms were approved on 2 March 1936.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 Dec 1999
Version without Coat of Arms
[![[Montemor-o-Velho municipality plain]](../images/p/pt-mmv0.gif)2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010
![[Montemor-o-Velho municipality plain]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt-mmv0.gif){kind=link}
Presentation of Montemor-o-Velho
This town belongs to Coimbra district has a 236 km² area, eleven communes (freguesias) and about 25 600 inhabitants.
António Martins-Tuválkin,
Sérgio Horta, 29 Oct 1999
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