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Colmenar (Municipality, Andalusia, Spain)

Flag of Colmenar - Image from the Símbolos de Málaga website, 17 September 2016

Presentation of Colmenar
Symbols of Colmenar

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Presentation of Colmenar

The municipality of Colmenar (3,444 inhabitants in 2015; 6,800 ha; municipal website) is located 30 km north-east of Málaga.

Colmenar might have been during the Muslim rule the site of Bobastro, the stronghold of the Muladi rebel Umar B. Hafsun, although most historians believe that the archeological remains of Bobastro are located in Álora.
The modern Colmenar emerged as a group of farms sold on 25 May 1488 by Hamet el Zuque, the former Moorish Mayor of Colmenar, to Francisco de Coalla, appointed Mayor of Colmenar after the Christian reconquest.

Ivan Sache, 17 September 2016

Symbols of Colmenar

The flag of Colmenar, adopted on 2 June 1989 by the Municipal Council and validated on 5 February 1993 by the Royal Academy of History, is prescribed by Decree No. 55, adopted on 27 April 1993 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 29 June 1993 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 69, pp. 5,628-5,629 (text). This was confirmed by a Resolution adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2/3, horizontally divided into three equal stripes, the upper, green, the middle, white, and the lower, blue. Charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms.

The coat of arms of Colmenar is prescribed by Royal Decree No. 3,290, signed on 19 October 181 and published on 12 January 1982 in the official Spanish gazette, No. 10, p. 682 (text). This was confirmed by a Resolution adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Azure a bee-hive or on a terrace vert surrounded by seven bees or volant. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.

The arms are canting, colmenar meaning "a bee-hive" in Spanish.

Ivan Sache, 17 September 2016