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Alcoba (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Flag of Alcoba - Image by "JGarrido", Wikimedia Commons, 7 May 2019

Presentation of Alcoba
Symbols of Alcoba

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Presentation of Alcoba

The municipality of Alcoba (602 inhabitants in 2018; 30,710 ha) is located 70 km east north-east of Ciudad Real. The municipality is composed of the villages of Alcoba and Santa Quiteria.
Alcoba, mentioned for the first time in 1105, was named for the Arab word alquiba, "a vault" or "a public weight". Bartolomé Herrera and Juan García Valeruelo, however, claim that the village was named for brook Alcobilla.

Ivan Sache, 7 May 2019

Symbols of Alcoba

The flag (photo) of Alcoba is prescribed by an Order issued on 14 October 1992 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 21 October 1992 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 80, p. 4,515 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, horizontally divided in two equal parts, the upper, white, and the lower, red, with a green triangle running from the hoist to 1/4 of the flag's length, charged in the center with a six-pointed white star.

The coat of arms of Alcoba is prescribed by an Order issued on 14 October 1992 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 21 October 1992 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 80, pp. 4,514-4,515 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Argent an arrow gules in pale, 2. Or a garb of three wheat spikes vert. Grafted in base, Vert a star argent. The shield surmounted by a Spanish Royal crown.

Ivan Sache, 7 May 2019