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![[Atouguia da Baleia commune]](../images/p/pt-pniab.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 24 Nov 2010
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a yellow and purple quartered field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Nov 2010
![[Atouguia da Baleia commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-pniab).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 24 Nov 2010
The arms are Purpure a bull passant Or hooved Sable and horned Argent holding on each of his horns a castle Argent masoned Sable with port and windows Sable. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (village rank) and red scroll reading in black upper case letters "ATOUGUIA DA BALEIA".
Meaning:
"Atouguia" derives from Latinate "Tauria" (ox land), and "da Baleia" means "of the whale", for a big whale that beached nearby in the early 1500ies (before silting put the coast farther north) - the arms being thus partly canting.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Nov 2010
Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 5 June 2000
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Nov 2010
Atouguia da Baleia Commune is one of the four communes of the Peniche Municipality (q.v.); it had 7988 inhabitants in 2001 and covers 46,04 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Nov 2010
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