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The municipality of Alcañices (298 inhabitants in 2010;
10,511 ha) is
located in the west of Zamora Province, on the border with
Portugal, 70 km from Zamora. The municipality is made
of the villages of Alcañices (capital), Alcorcillo, Santa Ana and Vivinera.
The Treaty of Alcañices, signed on 12 September 1297 by Kings
Dinis of Portugal (1261-1325, king in 1279) and Ferdinand IV of
Castile (1285-1312, king in 1295), fixed the borders
between the two countries, as they are still today between Portugal and
Spain.
Ivan Sache, 8 March 2011
The flag and arms of Alcañices are prescribed by a Decree adopted on
22 July 2000 by the Municipal Council, signed on 24 July
2000 by the Mayor, and published on 4 August 2000 in the official gazette of Castile
and León, No. 151, p. 9,583 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, with proportions 2:3, made of a red panel with a white cross throughout of 1/7 the flag's hoist, a yellow castle masoned sable in the upper hoist and lower fly quarters, a white scimitar in the upper fly quarter and a white lion in the lower fly quarter.
Coat of arms: Quarterly, 1. and 4. Gules a castle or masoned sable port and windows azure, 2. Argent a scimitar gules per bend surrounded by two bezants of the same, 3. Argent a lion rampant gules. The shield surmounted with a Royal crown closed.
Ivan Sache, 8 March 2011