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![[Oliveira do Hospital municipality]](../images/p/pt-ohp.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 5 Aug 2007
It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a purple and white gyronny (city rank) background.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Aug 2007
![[Oliveira do Hospital municipality CoA]](../images/p/pt-ohp).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 7 Aug 2007
The arms are Or two olive branches crossed per saltire at their stems Vert fruited Argent and tied Gules and in chief an inescutcheon Gules charged with a cross patty Argent and between two bunches of grapes Purpure leaved Vert and in campaign a fess wavy Argent fimbriated Azure. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "OLIVEIRA DO HOSPITAL".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Aug 2007
![[Oliveira do Hospital(town) municipality]](../images/p/pt-ohp4.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 6 Aug 2007
The current arms and flag were adopted upon the upgrade of the municipality seat to city status in 1993.07.02 and are a trivial change of the former arms, which included four visible crown towers (town rank), and of the former flag, which was white and purple quarterly.
Meaning:
"_Oliveira do hospital_" means "hospital's olive tree", a reference which is present on the arms. Note that the hospital in question is not in the modern sense of the word, but rather the Order of the Knights Hospitaller, which were granted local territory after its conquest from the Moorish.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Aug 2007
The current flag and coat of arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : III Série in 2003.10.31. The former version was adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1938.09.20 and had on the scroll the lettering "VILA DO OLIVEIRA DO HOSPITAL".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Aug 2007
![[Oliveira do Hospital municipality plain]](../images/p/pt-ohp0.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010
Oliveira do Hospital municipality had 22 112 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 16 communes covering 235,55 km². It is part of Coimbra District, traditional province Beira Alta, 1999 ref. adm. region Beira Litoral, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Centro, and NUTS III Pinhal Interior Norte.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Aug 2007
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