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Cobisa (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Flag of Cobisa - Image by Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019

Presentation of Cobisa
Symbols of Cobisa

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Presentation of Cobisa

The municipality of Cobisa (4,269 inhabitants in 2018 vs. 354 in 1991; 1,448 ha) is located 15 km south of Toledo.

Cobisa, first menbtioned in a Mozarab document dated 1125, might have been named for the Arab word qubba, "a vault". Earlier written forms of the town's name were Covixa, Cobija, Covisa and Coviza.
The area was originally settled by farmers living in neighboring Toledo, who eventually built houses, and, subsequently a church; the early settlement was named Cobisa de Abajo (Lower Cobisa). During the 18th century, the villagers moved to the neighboring settlement of Cobisa de Arriba (Upper Cobisa), which had emerged around a chapel erected in the 12th century.
[Tres Culturas, 12 January 2015]

Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019

Symbols of Cobisa

The flag of Cobisa (photo) is prescribed by an Order issued on 24 November 2016 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 13 March 2017 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 50, p. 6,244 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular panel in proportions 2:3, yellow with a red diagonal stripe running from the hoist's upper angle to the fly's lower angle, in width 1/5 of the panel's. In the center is placed the coat of arms of the town.

The coat of arms of Cobisa is prescribed by an Order issued on 3 September 1996 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 20 September 1996 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 42, p. 4,618 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Or a bend gules surrounded by two stars gules and charged with four crosslets argent. The shield surlounted by a Spanish Royal crown. In its graphic representation, the crosses follow the bend's orientation, not the shield's; its arms shall be parallel and perpendicular to the bend's edges.

The Royal Academy of History validated the proposed arms, as "a simple and sure composition that recalls the two population nuclei united by the 'Road of the Crosses'".
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 194:2, 389.1997]

The municipality, however, officially uses a coat of arms with the cross or instead of argent and the cross' arms parallel and perpendicular to the shield's edges, not the bend's (image; photo, photo, photo).

Ivan Sache, 9 September 2019