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![[Granja do Tedo commune flag]](../images/p/pt-tbcgt.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta´, 21 Mar 2025
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, 21 Mar 2025
![[Granja do Tedo commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-tbc).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 21 Mar 2025
Shield Or a vineyard harvest basket Gules garnished Argent, flanked by two European black elderberry branches Vert fructed Sable in pale, base wavy Azure and Argent barruly wavy of four. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "GRANJA DO TEDO".
Meaning:
The phrase "Granja do Tedo" means roughly "Thedon´s Grange", refering to an illegitimate grandson of King Ramiro III of Leon, who founded the
village around 1030; the word "granja" entered Portuguese usage only a century later, refering back then to intramural conventual intensive polyculture for local subsistence. The mentioned anthroponym was coopted as the name of the local Tedo River, a first level Douro tributary, for which the wavy base stands, the arms being therefore partly canting.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Mar 2025
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 30 August 2003
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Mar 2025
Granja do Tedo is one of the nine communes of Tabuaço Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had 156 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 4,67 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Mar 2025
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