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Flag of Mohedas de la Jara - Image by "Erlenmeyer", Wikimedia Commons, 10 September 2019
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The municipality of Mohedas de la Jara (453 inhbitants in 2015; 6,042 ha) is located on the border with Extremadura (Province of Cáceres), 140 km west of Toledo and 60 km of Talavera de la Reina.
Mohedas de la Jara is named for an Arab world meaning "a scrubby place" and the Spanish world jara, "a rockrose". There is no record of the foundation of the town, which was, most probably, established by shepherds and bee-keepers from Talavera. The main colonists of the place, however, were Mozarabs from Toledo, who named the place Toledillo. The town subsequently incorporated the hamlets of Aldeanueva de San Bartolomé (Aldeanovita), Campillo de la Jara, and Puerto de San Vicente.
In August 2006, a blaze destroyed more than 2,000 ha in Mohedas. The cultural association La Prazuela was able to collect funds to replant more than 3,000 holy oaks, cork oaks and chestnuts on the burned land.
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Ivan Sache, 10 September 2019
The flag of Mohedas de la Jara is prescribed by an Order adopted on 12 February 2007 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 23 February 2007 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 41, pp. 4,834-4,835 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular in proportions 3:5, red; horizontally divided in the middle, the upper part, green, the lower part, red, with a yellow triangle whose vertices are the two corners of the hoist and the center of the panel. In the center of the triangle, the crowned coat of arms of the municipality.
The coat of arms of Mohedas de la Jara is prescribed by an Order adopted on 5 September 1995 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 15 September 1995 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 46, pp. 5,000-5,001 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Spanish shield. Per fess, 1. Argent a holly oak eradicated vert surrounded by two bee-hives azure, 2a. Or two rockroses leaved and slipped proper in saltire, 2b. Gules a lamb argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
Ivan Sache, 10 September 2019
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