Mora Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Mora

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

About the flag

It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a background quarterly (meaning town rank) of yellow and green. The coat of arms is argent three immature indian corn ears proper tied gules on a bordure sable eight bees or. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE MORA".
António Martins, 14 Dec 2003

"Mora" (do not confuse with co-regional Moura, 300 km SSE) comes apparently from Latin "morus" (a kind of berry — "amora" in current Portuguese), of which there is none showing in the arms.
António Martins, 14 Dec 2003

Presentation of Mora

Mora municipality had 5797 inhabitants in 2000 (6410 in 1990), and it is divided in 4 communes, covering 443 km². It belongs to the District of Évora, to the old province Alto Alentejo and to the would-be region Alentejo.
António Martins, 14 Dec 2003