Mora Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)

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Concelho de Mora, Distrito de Évora

[ [Mora municipality] ](../images/p/pt-mor.gif)2:3 image by André Serranho, 14 Dec 2003

About the Flag
Version without Coat of Arms
Presentation of Mora See also:
Mora Communes
Portugal External links:
Page about Mora 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 quarterly of yellow and green.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Dec 2003

Coat of arms

[ [Mora municipality CoA] .gif)](../images/p/pt-mor%29.gif)image by Sérgio Horta, 14 Dec 2003

he coat of arms is Argent three immature indian corn cobs proper tied gules on a bordure Sable eight bees Or. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE MORA".
Meaning:
"Mora" (do not confuse with co-regional Moura, 300 km SSE) comes apparently from Latin "morus" (a kind of berry — "amora" in current Portuguese), of which there is none showing in the arms.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Dec 2003

Flag and arms adopted and published in Diário do Governo : I Série on 18 November 1935
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Dec 2003

Version without Coat of Arms

[ [Mora municipality plain] ](../images/p/pt-mor0.gif)2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010

Presentation of Mora

Mora municipality had 5797 inhabitants in 2000 (6410 in 1990), and it is divided in 4 communescommunes, covering 443 km². It belongs to the District of Évora, to the old province Alto Alentejo and to the would-be region Alentejo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Dec 2003

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