Mora Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Mora, Distrito de Évora

Last modified: 2014-10-25 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Mora

• Mora Communes
• Portugal

• Page about Mora at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quarterly of yellow and green.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Dec 2003

he coat of arms is Argent three immature indian corn cobs proper tied gules on a bordure Sable eight bees Or. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE MORA".
Meaning:
"Mora" (do not confuse with co-regional Moura, 300 km SSE) comes apparently from Latin "morus" (a kind of berry — "amora" in current Portuguese), of which there is none showing in the arms.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Dec 2003

Flag and arms adopted and published in Diário do Governo : I Série on 18 November 1935
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Dec 2003

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Mora

Mora municipality had 5797 inhabitants in 2000 (6410 in 1990), and it is divided in 4 communescommunes, covering 443 km². It belongs to the District of Évora, to the old province Alto Alentejo and to the would-be region Alentejo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Dec 2003

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