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![[Pópulo e Ribalonga united commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-aljpr.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin,
![[Pópulo e Ribalonga united commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-aljpr).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 25 Mar 2024
Shield Argent an eradicated chestnut tree Vert with nuts Or opened Gules flanked by two flax plants Vert with its flowers Azure barbed Argent and seeded Or and issuant from base a mound Vert topped by a wall embattled Sable masoned Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE PÓPULO E RIBALONGA".
Meaning:
As often happens, these symbols are partly taken from each of the two ancestor communes´ coats of arms. The arms are basically those of former Pópulo Commune with flax blossoms added from the arms of former Ribalonga.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 22 November 2016, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2024
Pópulo e Ribalonga is one of the four communes of Alijó Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 409 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 21.3 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Mar 2024
![[Pópulo commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-aljpr-pp.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 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, 27 Mar 2024
![[Pópulo commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-aljpr-pp).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 27 Mar 2024
Shield Argent an eradicated chestnut tree Vert with nuts Or opened Gules and issuant from base a mound Vert topped by a wall embattled Sable masoned Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "PÓPULO - ALIJÓ".
Meaning:
The Portuguese word "pópulo" is an recent erudite borrowing from Latin "populus" meaning "poplar", a tree (the regular Portuguese word for it is "choupo", from the same Latin etym but with several centuries worth of wear and tear). Since the tree shown on the arms is rather a chestnut tree, these are not canting.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 8 May 2009, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 2024
Pópulo was one of the nine communes of Alijó Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 277 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 12,18 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 2024
![[Ribalonga commune flag (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-aljpr-rl.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain blue field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 2024
![[Ribalonga commune CoA (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-aljpr-rl).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 27 Mar 2024
Shield Argent a flax comb Gules in pale flanked by two flax plants Vert with its blossoms Azure seeded Argent and their stems crossed per saltire. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "RIBALONGA - ALIJÓ".
Meaning:
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 2024
Flag and arms established by the CHAAP on 27 June 2000, but not approved by the communal parliament before its dissolution in 2012.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 2024
Ribalonga was one of the nine communes of Alijó Municipality affected by the 2013 changes. It had 231 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 9,13 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Mar 2024
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