Nordeste Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-12-03 by antónio martins
Keywords: nordeste | coat of arms: fess | goshawk (brown) | fires: 3 | bonfire | fish: 5 | waves: 2 | quina | vila de nordeste |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Nordeste NRD

• Municipalities of Portugal
• Portugal

• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Nordeste at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Nordeste at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Nordeste, at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 18 Oct 2007

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain green background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1937.09.15.
António Martins, 18 Oct 2007

Coat of arms

The arms are Argent on a fess Sable three fires proper and on the chief a goshawk Proper holding an escutcheon Azure charged with five plates Argent set in saltire and on the campaign two wavy barrulets Vert semy of fish endowed Argent. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila de Nordeste".
António Martins, 18 Oct 2007

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Nordeste

Nordeste municipality had 5291 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 9 communes covering 101,51 km², taking up the NE half of St. Michael Island (São Miguel). It is part of Azores Region (also a NUTS II and traditional province), former Angra do Heroísmo District. "Nordeste" is Portuguese for "northeast", refering to the location of this municipality, which is not hinted at in the arms.
António Martins, 18 Oct 2007

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