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by Jens Pattke, 19 Dec 2014
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Nampula is the fourth largest city in Mozambique and is located in the north of the country. It is the administrative capital of Nampula Province.
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by Jens Pattke, 19 Dec 2014
The initial municipal flag had a dark green background with the municipal arms in the
centre of a white square.
Jens Pattke, 19 Dec 2014
image by
António Martins-Tuválkin,
22 March 2016
Nampula subsequently adopted a flag based on the typical
Portuguese municipal flag design with the coat of arms centered on a green
and white background, gyronny of eight (city status for the municipality) by
diagonals and apothemas. The blazon of the Coat of Arms is Vert semy of
cotton (?) flowers Argent leaved Or; a representation of Our Lady of
Something-or-Other (?) Proper clothed Argent and crowned Or. Mural crown with
five visible towers (city status) and white scroll with the words "Cidade de
Nampula" in black capital letters. This flag was used until 1975 when
Mozambique become independent.
More information can be found in the Portuguese Colonial Armorial by F.P. de
Almeida Langhans (1966) [lgh66] and in Adolfo
Durán Rodríguez's article about Portuguese colonial flags [drn95]
in Banderas (No. 54, 1995) [ban]. A photo of this flag can be found online here.
António Martins-Tuválkin,
22 March 2016
