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![[Sertã municipality]](../images/p/pt-srt.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Oct 1998
It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered white over black.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Oct 1998
![[Sertã municipality CoA]](../images/p/pt-srt).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 27 Oct 1998
The coat of arms is Gules, a castle tower Argent above a chevronel wavy inverted Azure fimbriated Argent, chief Or a frying pan Sable, between two templar crosses: dexter the “round” one, usual in Portugal, and sinister, the older one, similar to Malta’s. The scroll is unusal for it reads in two lines instead of one: "SARTAGO STERNIT SARTAGINE HOSTES / VILA DA SERTÃ".
Meaning:
The first line on scroll is latin and means «Sertã defeats its enemies by a frying pan». This thing about frying pans is that "sertã" is a bit archaic word in portuguese for precisely frying pan. These are “canting arms”!…
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Oct 1998
Flag and arms adopted and published in Diário do Governo : I Série on 23 January 1936
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Oct 1998
![[Sertã municipality plain]](../images/p/pt-srt0.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010
Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999
A rural municipality, with 17 560 inhabitants in ten communes covering 444 km². It is located on the current Castelo Branco District, future region of Beira Interior, old province of Beira Baixa.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Oct 1998
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