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![[Baleizão commune]](../images/p/pt-bjabz.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 21 Apr 2010
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Apr 2010
![[Baleizão commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-bjabz).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 21 Apr 2010
The arms are Gules a harvester's hat Or, in chief two bull's heads Argent garnished Sable, in base a sickle Argent". Mural crown argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "BALEIZÃO".
Meaning:
This village is noted for local farmhand Catarina Eufémia, shot by regime police during a peasant's upheaval in 1954, hat and the sickle on the arms may refer to this.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Apr 2010
Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 15 November 1997
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Apr 2010
Baleizão Commune is one of the 12 communes of Beja Municipality (q.v.); it had 1056 inhabitants in 2001 and covers 138,25 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 Apr 2010
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