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Flag of Salamanca Province - Image by "HansenBCN" (Wikimedia Commons), 21 June 2011
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Salamanca Province (353,619 inhabitants in 2010; 12,350 sq. km) is located in the southwest of Castilla y León.
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2011
The flag of Salamanca Province (photo) is purple with the provincial coat of arms in the center.
The flag has proportions 2:3, with the height of the coat of arms about one third of the flag's hoist.
Santiago Dotor & Ivan Sache, 21 June 2011
The arms of Salamanca Province (image) are quartered with the arms of its
five Legal Districts (partidos judiciales) arranged as follows:
1. Azure three columns of a ruined Roman temple or (Ciudad Rodrigo);
2. Azure five bees or per satire (Béjar);
3. Argent five towers or masoned sable per saltire (Peñaranda de
Bracamonte);
4. Argent a feather gules a sword argent hilted or per saltire
ensigned with a St. Anthony's Cross azure (Vitigudino);
Inescutcheon: Per pale, 1. A stone bridge proper masoned sable passant
on it a bull sable a fig tree eradicated vert, 2. Or four pales gules
a bordure azure eight crosses patty argent, grafted in chief argent
two lions without tail, tongue and claws proper issuant from the
flanks affronty (Salamanca).
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2011
Other representation of the flag of Salamanca Province - Image by Jens Pattke, 16 January 2002
This particular representation of the flag is given by Banderas y Escudos de las provincias de España [e9s92], published in 1992 by the Spanish Ministry of Public Administration.
Falko Schmidt, 16 January 2002