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Evora Municipality (Portugal)
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by Ant�nio Martins, 06 Nov 1998
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About the flag
City rank, honoured with the
Order of Tower and Sword. The flag is red
and yellow gyronny and the coat of arms is or, a christian
knight riding a horse sable dressed and haired argent, holding a blood
stained sword; in point, a cut off head of a moor proper and dressed
argent and a cut off head of a christian woman also proper and dressed
argent � both blood stained. No comments about the story this tells...
The scroll reads "MUI NOBRE E SEMPRE LEAL CIDADE DE
�VORA", meaning �Most noble and ever loyal city of Evora�.
Ant�nio Martins, 06 Nov 1998
Presentation of �vora
�vora is a large �province� city (by portuguese standards), capital
of a municipality with 1308 km2 and 53 880 inhabitants
in 16 communes. Belongs to the �vora district
and to the traditional province Alto Alentejo
and will be in the future region Alentejo.
Ant�nio Martins, 06 Nov 1998
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