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![[Carrazeda de Ansiães municipal flag]](../images/p/pt-crz.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 6 Mar 2007 |
![[Carrazeda de Ansiães municipal flag variant]](../images/p/pt-crz1.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 6 Mar 2007 |
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Mar 2007
Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms thus in this case there is none.
Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999
![[Carrazeda de Ansiães municipal flag old spelling]](../images/p/pt-crz0.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Feb 2024
Thereat it is also said that the spelling of "Ansiães" at time of creation of this coat of arms was "Anciãis"; that is not strictly correct, as these arms were created in 1935 and the spelling had changed to "Anciães" already in 1911 — but it is true that it did take a long to stick, particularly in proper nouns, and indeed the obsolete spelling was used by the the Ministry of Interior here
Somewhere down the line in the intervening period the spelling was eventually updated/corrected on the arms and flag, older depctions keeping the previous spelling to this day. I didn´t conduct an iconographic research on the topic, but an educated guess would be that the first flags showing the correct spelling appeared in the 1950s.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Feb 2024
![[Carrazeda de Ansiães municipality CoA]](../images/p/pt-crz).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 18 Feb 2024
Shield Argent a bunch of grapes Purpure leafed Vert, above two branches of olive with their stems crossed and four ears of wheat likewise all Vert, in base three fesses wavy Azure. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE CARRAZEDA DE ANSIÃES" (see left flag image above) or simply "CARRAZEDA DE ANSIÃES" (see right flag image above)
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Mar 2007
Published in Diário do Governo: I Série on 27 April 1935, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Feb 2024
Carrazeda de Ansiães Municipality consists of 14 communes It had 5494 inhabitants in 2021 covering 279,24 km². It is part of Bragança District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Douro.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Feb 2024
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