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![[Loivos e Póvoa de Agrações united commune flag]](../images/p/pt-chvlp.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2024
It is an argueably atypical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2024
![[Loivos e Póvoa de Agrações united commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-chvlp).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 18 Apr 2024
Shield Azure a fess Or masoned Sable, between a lyre Argent in chief and an eradicated chestnut tree Or leafed Argent and fruite Gules in base. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE LOIVOS E AGRAÇÕES".
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 6 June 2017, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2024
Loivos e Póvoa de Agrações is one of the six communes of Chaves Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 586 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 19,01 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Apr 2024
![[Loivos commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-chvlp-lv.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Apr 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Apr 2024
![[Loivos commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-chvlp-lv).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Apr 2024
Shield Argent a fess Sable masoned Argent between a lyre Gules in chief and a mound Vert issuant from base wavy Argent charged with a barrulet wavy Azure. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "LOIVOS - CHAVES".
Meaning:
The depiction of the masoned fess/wall makes use of exquisitely stylized stonework, a level of sophistication seldom found in Portuguese local heraldry — although frequently in, say Portuguese military heraldry. This element was transposed, with different tinctures, into the arms of the successor commune of Póvoa de Agrações.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Apr 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 21 August 2003
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Apr 2024
Loivos was one of the 14 communes of Chaves Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 553 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 11,78 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 Apr 2024
According to source the commune had no proper coat of arms, displaying just an empty shield, and has thus also no proper flag.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 May 2024
Póvoa de Agrações was one of the 14 communes of Chaves Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 186 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 7,23 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 May 2024
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