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Mesegar (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Flag of Mesegar - Image by "Digigalos", Wikimedia Commons, 10 September 2019

Presentation of Mesegar
Symbols of Mesegar

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Presentation of Mesegar

The municipality of Mesegar (locally known as Mesegar de Tajo; 222 inhabitants in 2018 vs. 837 in 1950; 1,800 ha) is located 50 km west of A HREF="es-to-to.html">Toledo and 30 km south-west of A HREF="es-to-tr.html">Torrijos.

Ivan Sache, 10 September 2019

Symbols of Mesegar

The flag of Mesegar (photo, photo, photo, photo) is prescribed by an Order issued on 7 June 1993 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 11 June 1993 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 43, p. 3,143 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Two equal horizontal stripes, the upper, red, the lower, green. A white triangle running from the hoist to the flag's geometric enter, in the center of the triangle the red cross of the Knight Templars.

The coat of arms of Mesegar is prescribed by an Order issued on 7 June 1993 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 11 June 1993 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 43, p. 3,143 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Spanish shield. Per pale, 1. Azure a Roman lamp argent flamed or, 2. Gules three wheat spikes or placed 2 and 1. Grafted in base, Argent a fig tree eradicated proper. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The Royal Academy of History suggested modifications to the proposed coat of arms, which feature a Roman lamp, recalling the archeological sites located on the municipal territory, wheat spikes and a fig tree, the most important crops in the place.
The tree, placed in a small division of the shield, cannot be identified. There is also an unfortunate effect caused by the represention of the tree in a smaller size than the lamp and the spikes. Thes flaws can easily be solved by using a leaf that would represent the whoel tree, the saem way the spikes represent wheat.
The Academy rejected the "unnecessary" introduction of the cross, allegedly of the Templ's militai, on the flag. When a flag is a simple combination of colors, it can be admitted that it has no relation with the coat of arms. However, when it contains emblems, these should be exactly the same as on the coat of arms, to avoid the coexistence of two heraldic repesnetations for the same place. The proposed flag could be accepted, provided the cross is removed, in spite of reproducing the division of the shield but in different colors, which is odd.
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 190:2, 337. 1993]

Ivan Sache, 10 September 2019