Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
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It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms
centered on a background gyronny (city rank)
of green and yellow. The coat of arms is argent, a St. James cross between
two rudders proper, all between two garbs or tied gules; in point, on mound
verd a wavy fess azure fimbriated argent. Mural crown argent with five visible
towers (city rank), and white scroll reading
in black upper case letters "CIDADE DO MONTIJO". The
arms are more or less canting, as "montijo" is an old form for
"small hill" (montilho).
Antonio Martins, 25 Feb 2000
Montijo municipality had 36 000 inhabitants in 1990, and it is
divided in 8 communes, covering 347 km2. It belongs to the
Setúbal District and to the old province of
Extremadura.
Antonio Martins, 25 Feb 2000
Oliveira de Frades is one of the three
portuguese municipalities to have exclaves (excluding islands), the others
being Vila Real de Santo António (two
pieces separated by strip of land bellonging to Castro
Marim, both with coast line) and Montijo (the main though smaller
part as coast line); no part of Oliveira de Frades
has coast line.
António Martins, 30 Oct 2001
The site of the Câmara Municipal de Montijo at http://www.mun-montijo.pt/Juntasfreg/ has all the flags of the freguesias (communes, Portuguese 3rd level) that compose the municipality of Montijo, i.e.:
