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It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the
coat of arms centered on a black and white
quartered background (town rank). Flag and
arms adopted by law published in the official journal
Diário do Governo :
II Série in 1948.08.04.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2006
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The coat of arms is argent on a mound vert issuant from a base wavy argent
and vert a cormorant sable holding a fish gules under a
goshawk sable lined or displayed in chief
holding an escutcheon azure charged with five plates. Mural crown argent
with four visible towers (town rank) and white
scroll reading in black upper case letters "CORVO".
António Martins, 16 Dec 2006
Corvo, by the way, means "crow", which makes the
coat of arms semi-canting.
Jorge Candeias, 05 Mar 2003
Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are
not allowed to have armless
variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999
Some sources of the early 1990ies shown the coat of arms on a gyronny
background, possibly black and white, but presented in line-draw. This might
have been a mistake, as there are no movement supporting the upgrade of Vila
do Corvo to city status.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2006
Area: 17 km2. Population: 387 inhabitants.
Francisco Santos, 05 Mar 2003
The territory of this municipality coincides with the
namesake azorean island; 487 inhabitants in 2000
(of which 399 are permanent residents; Corvo by far the least populated
Portuguese municipality); one single commune. The municipal and communal
seat (and single collective settlement) is the town of Vila do Corvo.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2006
Apart from the goshawk, another bird that has
some meaning in azorean toponymy and vexillology is the Crested Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax aristotelis), in portuguese Corvo-do-mar-preto
(meaning "black sea crow") — which gave the name to the
smallest and NW-most island and shows in its
flag.
António Martins, 14 Sep 1999
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