Alcanena Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-04-29 by
Keywords: alcanena | coat of arms | tree | minde | minderico |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Alcanena
• Commune flags

• Municipalities of Portugal
• Portugal

• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Alcanena at Sérgio Hortaʼs website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Alcanena at the Portuguese Municipalitiesʼs Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

Version without the coat of arms

Yellow and black, quarterly.
Jorge Candeias, 07 Jul 1999

Presentation of Alcanena

Alcanena is a municipality belonging to the district of Santarém (old province of Ribatejo), with an area of 127.3 sq. km. and 14 373 inhabitants (data from local authorities 14 560 as of 2000, census data). It is divided in 10 freguesias (communes). The main economic activities are transforming industries and commerce.
Jorge Candeias, 15 Sep 1997

Commune flags

Thereʼs also the minderico speakerʼs community, in a town called Minde. But thatʼs not a language, but an artificial lingo invented a few centuries ago by locals in order to be able to communicate between themselves without being understood by strangers. Itʼs pure portuguese, only the words get twisted meanings.
Jorge Candeias, 04 Feb 2003

I think the correct term for such a “language” is "jargon" (in portuguese "geringonça").
António Martins, 10 Feb 2003