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Mascarenhas Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Mascarenhas, Concelho de Mirandela, Distrito de Bragança

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[Mascarenhas commune] 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin,
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Mascarenhas Commune

Flag

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, 29 Nov 2023

Coat of Arms

[Mascarenhas commune CoA] image by Sérgio Horta, 31 Dec 2017

Shield Argent, two olive eradicated trees Vert fruited Sable, in chief a lion rampant Gules langued and animated Or, on base wavy Azure a barrulet wavy Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "MASCARENHAS"
Meaning:
Mascarenhas, like oddly several other names of communes in Mirandela (Bouça, Franco, Múúrias, Passos, and Pereira), is a surname, and a fairly common one. The Portuguese lineage of this surname was indeed based on the namesake village, in the late 12th century (see here; its arms are Gules three barrulets Or, not reflected in the communal arms, but its crest, a lion rampant Gules langued and animated Or, is.
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 Dec 2017

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 21 May 2001
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 Dec 2017

Presentation of Mascarenhas

was one of the ten communes of Alijó Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes ; it had inhabitants in 2021 and covers  km².
António Martins-Tuválkin,

Mascarenhas Commune is one of the 30 communes of Mirandela Municipality; it had 550 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 28.1 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 Dec 2017

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