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![[Alguber commune]](../images/p/pt-cdvag.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 5 May 2009
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain purple field (village rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2009
![[Alguber commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-cdvag).gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Apr 2015
The arms are Or a Roman sword Gules per pale between two pears Purpure leaved Vert and in base a bridge issuant Sable masoned Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "ALGUBER".
Meaning:
Still about (probably) non canting pears in Portuguese communal arms / flags, here's one more. Note that the official words include the prescription that pears and sword should be "well ordered", "tudo bem ordenado", when indeed it is not: The flanking pears are blazoned first in the original text, and off set to the chief in the image.
The word "alguber" has no evident meaning in Portuguese; it almost surely derived from Arabic, but doesn't seem to mean either "pear" nor "sword", judging from these two pages: here(kmūry) and here(sif).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2009
Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série in 2002.11.22
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2009
Alguber Commune is one of the seven communes of Cadaval Municipality (q.v.); it had 1011 inhabitants in 2001 and covers 19,19 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 May 2009
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