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Avessadas e Rosém Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Avessadas e Roéem, Concelho de Marco de Canavezes, Distrito do Porto

Last modified: 2025-03-08 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: avessadas | rosem | bull(head;caboshed) | flax | mount | base(wavy) | distaffs(2) |
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[Avessadas e Rosém commune flag (until 2013)] 2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2025
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Avessadas e Rosém Commune

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2025

Coat of Arms

Shield Or a mount Vert charged with a barrulet wavy Azure fimbriated Argent, on its top a boulder Sable, on chief two distaffs Sable garnished Argent with yarns Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and short white scroll, in Bénard-Guedes style, reading in black upper case serifed letters "AVESSADAS E ROSÉM".
Meaning:
The distaffs are representing the former Rosém Commune, all other charges the former Avessadas Commune.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2025

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 27 May 2015
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2025

Presentation of Avessadas e Rosém

Avessadas e Rosém is one of the ten communes of Marco de Canavezes Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 1374 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 11,14 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2025

Former Avessadas Commune (until 2013)

Flag

[Avessadas commune (until 2013)] 2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

Coat of Arms

Shield Argent, in chief a bull's head caboshed Gules, garnished Or and armed Sable, between to flax flowers Proper (= stemmed and leaved Vert, blossomed Azure, seeded Or), issuant from base a mount Vert, crowned by a rock Sable and charged with a bar wavy Argent, charged with a barrulet Azure. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "AVESSADAS".
Sources: Ralf Hartemink's webpage and here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 18 May 2000,
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

Presentation of Avessadas

Avessadas was one of the 25 communes of Marco de Canavezes Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 1247 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 6,1 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

Former Rosém Commune (until 2013)

Flag

[Rosém commune (until 2013)] 2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 4 July 2016

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

Coat of Arms

Shield Or with base wavy of Azure and Argent, two distaffs Sable in saltire with filaments Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "ROSEM".
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 24 July 2002
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

Presentation of Rosém

Rosém was one of the 25 communes of Marco de Canavezes Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 220 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 5,0 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2016

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