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Saldanha Commune (Portugal)

Freguesia de Saldanha, Concelho de Mogadouro, Distrito de Bragança

2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 28 Feb 2016

About the flag
Presentation of Saldanha

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About the Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2016

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 28 Feb 2016

Shield Argent on a mound Vert a quiver with its arrows Or emphasized Sable per pale and on the chief a Roman sword (lit.: "gládio", not "espada") per fess Gules hilted Sable. Mural crown argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "SALDANHA"
Meaning:
The village name probably derived, as many others throughout the world, from the Leonese town Saldaña (nowadays in Palencia Province, Spain; its toponym is claimed to be Latin "saltus Dianae", "Diana's woods", and, as such, it could be also a case of multiple emergence as a toponym. The arms doesn't reflect either of these etymologies (which could have been done, for instance, by including a variation of the Mendoça family arms, or any of Diana's attributes). The arms instead show tokens of weaponry and orography; I have no knowledge about the reasons for this choice. Diana of the Hunt is represented adequately by the quiver of arrows.
António Martins-Tuválkin and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 Feb 2016 / 5 Mar 2016

Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 24 Maych 2005
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2016

Presentation of Saldanha

Saldanha Commune is one of the 21 communes of Mogadouro Municipality; it had 165 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 25.8 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Feb 2016

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