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Merelim (São Pedro) e Frossos United Commune (Portugal)

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União das Freguesias de Merelim (São Pedro) e Frossos, Concelho de Braga, Distrito de Braga

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Former São Pedro de Merelim commune (until 2013)

[São Pedro de Merelim commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by Sérgio Horta and António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Sep 2017

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plainyellow field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Sep 2017

Coat of arms

[São Pedro de Merelim commune CoA (until 2013)] image by Sérgio Horta, 21 Sep 2017

Shield Azure, two keys in saltire, one Or the other Argent, in base an anvil Sable. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "MERELIM - SÃO PEDRO".
Source: this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Sep 2017

Published in Diário da República: III Série on 9 April 1998
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Sep 2017

Presentation of São Pedro de Merelim

São Pedro de Merelim Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Braga Municipality; it had 1920 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 1.9 km².
Source: Portuguese WIKIPEDIA
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Sep 2017

Former Frossos commune (until 2013)

[Frossos commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by , 3 Mar 2017

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2017

Coat of arms

[Frossos commune CoA (until 2013)] image by , 3 Mar 2017

Shield Gules; scales Or, balanced on a sword flambant Argent hilted Or; issuant from base wavy Azure (!), charged with a barrulet wavy Argent, a two-arch bridge Argent masoned Sable in chief three nails Argent in fess. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "FROSSOS - BRAGA".
Source:
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2017

Published in Diário da República: III Série on
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2017

Presentation of

Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Braga Municipality; it had inhabitants in 2011 and covered  km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2017

Former commune (until 2013)

[ commune (until 2013)] 2:3 image by , 3 Mar 2017

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field of yet unknown colour.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2017

Coat of arms

[ commune CoA (until 2013)] image by , 3 Mar 2017

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Source:
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2017

Published in Diário da República: III Série on
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2017

Presentation of

Commune was one of the pre-2013 communes of Braga Municipality; it had inhabitants in 2011 and covered  km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Mar 2017

Frossos Commune On the as-yet unknown flag background, there is with a coat of arms centered on it. The arms have on a "Frossos - Braga". Flag and arms possibly approved and published officially, but I could find no evidence of that, not even in the usually well-informed website [ http://www.hiperglobal.com/portugal/index.php?zona=1037 ] Hiperglobal, which shows, as usual, an image seemingly based on Sérgio Horta's (even though his website never covered this commune) and unusually no text at all. At the history page of the successor commune's website, a large CoA image [ http://www.jf-merelimsaopedroefrossos.com/historia.php ] [ http://www.jf-merelimsaopedroefrossos.com/admin_sos2016/files/images/Simbolo%20Heraldico%20de%20Frossos.png ] - apparently original CHAAP artwork. Images for our page [pt-brg-.html], attached: [pt-fssb).gif], CoA detail, and [pt-fssb'.gif], placeholder image with the flag background in transparency. There were, as of 2013, another commune in Portugal named Frossos, so the disambiguating addition of the municipality name to the scroll is justified. Frossos was one of the 44 communes of Braga mun. [pt-brg.html] affected by the 2013 changes, when it was joined to the comm. of São Pedro de Merelim to form the new Commune Union of São Pedro de Merelim and Frossos (officially: _União das Freguesias de Merelim (São Pedro) e Frossos_); the erstwhile commune had 1806 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 1,30 km². See also [ http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frossos_(Braga) ] and [ http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merelim_(S%C3%A3o_Pedro)_e_Frossos ]. António Martins-Tuválkin,14 Nov 2017

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