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![[Pereiros (Carrazeda de Ansiães) commune flag]](../images/p/pt-crzpe.gif)
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Oct 2024
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Feb 2024
![[Pereiros commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-crzpe).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 12 Feb 2024
Shield Argent issuant from an abased fess wavy Azure a throughout Medieval bridge Sable masoned Argent, in chief a mitre Gules garnished Or, in base a branch of pear thrice fruited Or garnished Gules. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "PEREIROS - CARRAZEDA DE ANSIÃES".
Meaning:
The word "pereiro" (plural: "pereiros") usually means the fruit tree of the fruit confusingly named "pero" (pre-1973 spelling: "pêro"), which is a type of apple (to cut a long story short). In this case however, these arms seem to be canting for the toponym meaning instead "pear trees", which in Portuguese is usually named "pereira" (plural: "pereiras"; fruit: "pera" or "pêra" — its female form in grammatical gender). The branch of a pear tree (Portuguese: pereira) is thus a canting element.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Feb 2024
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 21 February 2005
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Feb 2024
Pereiros is one of the ten communes of Carrazeda de Ansiães Municipality not affected by the 2013 changes; it had 151 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 14,7 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Feb 2024
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