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![[Aldeia da Ribeira, Vilar Maior e Badamalos united commune flag ]](../images/p/pt-sbgam.gif) 2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 June 2024
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 June 2024 
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and purple.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 June 2024  
Shield Purpure with base wavy of Azure and Argent, issuant from base a throughout bridge Argent masoned Sable with three arches, on chief an embattled tower Or masoned Sable with port and windows Purpure. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers  (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case serifed letters "UNIÃO DAS FREGUESIAS DE ALDEIA DA RIBEIRA, VILAR MAIOR E BADAMALOS". 
Meaning:
Wavy base and bridge had been part of any of the commune´s predecessors, a tower appears on the shield of two of them.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 June 2024
Published in Diário da República: II Série on 27 June 2017 
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 June 2024 
Aldeia da Ribeira, Vilar Maior e Badamalos is one of the seven communes of Sabugal Municipality created by a merger during the 2013 changes. It had 266 inhabitants in 2021 and covers 68,79 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 June 2024
![[Aldeia da Ribeira commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-sbgam-ar.gif) 2:3,image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Mar 2016
2:3,image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Mar 2016
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016  
Shield Vert, the lower half barry wavy of Azure and Argent, crowned by a bridge Argent masoned Sable having four arches, the both arches at dexter being smaller. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials  "ALDEIA DA RIBEIRA - SABUGAL" 
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016  
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 1 April 1998 
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016  
Aldeia da Ribeira was one of the pre-2013 communes of Sabugal Municipality; it had 131 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 28,7 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016 
![[Vilar Maior commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-sbgam-vm.gif) 2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016
2:3, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of purple and white.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016  
![[Vilar Maior commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-sbgam-vm).gif) image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Mar 2016
image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Mar 2016
Shield Argent with base wavy of Azure and Argent, in centre a throughout wall Purpure masoned Or with three archs Argent and two embattled towers with window Argent, in chief a fleur-de-lis Azure. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials "VILAR MAIOR".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016  
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 10 December 1997, 
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016 
Vilar Maior was one of the pre-2013 communes of Sabugal Municipality; it had 120 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 24,8 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016 
    
![[Badamalos commune (until 2013)]](../images/p/pt-sbgam-bm.gif) 2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Mar 2016
2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Mar 2016
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain white field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016  
Shield Azure with base wavy of Argent and Azure, issuant from base a bridge Argent thrice arched Azure with an embattled tower of the Same at dexter, in chief ordered per fess a bezant between two plates. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials "BADAMALOS".
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016  
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 19 November 2002, 
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016  
Badamalos was one of the pre-2013 communes of Sabugal Municipality; it had 96 inhabitants in 2011 and covered 13,4 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2016 
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