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Caçarelhos e Angueira United Commune (Portugal)

Last modified: 2017-03-27 by klaus-michael schneider
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União das Freguesias de Caçarelhos e Angueira, Concelho de Vimioso, Distrito de Bragança


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Former Caçarelhos commune (until 2013)

[Caçarelhos commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017

It is a slightly unusual Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: this image, and information confirmed by president of the communal government
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017

Coat of arms

[Caçarelhos commune CoA (until 2013)] image by Sérgio Horta, 25 Mar 2017

Shield Vert, two hares courant Or spotted Sable with eyes Gules set in fess, in chief two keys set per saltire, one Or bendwise over the other Argent bendwise sinister, issuant from base a craggy mount Argent emphasised Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll (Bénard Guedes style)reading in black upper case letters "CAÇARELHOS".
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 6 October 2004
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017


Presentation of Caçarelhos

Caçarelhos Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Vimioso Municipality; it had 219 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 31.0 km². This commune was one of three detached from neighbouring municipality of Miranda do Douro in the 19th century, and local bilingualism gives the village its two names: Caçarelhos in Portuguese and Caçareilhos in Mirandese (the local syncretic Asturian-Leonese dialect complex, co-official language of Portugal and given a standard orthography); each is the translation of the other and both mean "dry hamlet". In spite of this bilingualism (enshrined in the Constitution of 1999), the scroll of the arms is not bilingual, according to the law (signed in 2004).
Sources: Portuguese WIKIPEDIA and Mirandese WIKIPEDIA
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017


Former Angueira commune (until 2013)

Angueira never had its own symbols. This webpage displays just an empty shield.
information confirmed by president of the communal government
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2017 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2017


Presentation of Angueira

Angueira Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Vimioso Municipality; it had 116 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 22.2 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2017


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