The historical flag of the province of Lleida is green with a nine-part coat of arms, one for each judicial district, but the Council already uses another.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio in dark green, with no divisions, and the coat of arms of the province in the centre.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The image on this page is the flag that the Provincial Council of Lleida used for years: a dark green field with the coat of arms of the province in the centre. Today it is out of date, because the institution already uses a different one, so it is best read as a historical flag.
There is no clear date for the flag, but there is one for the coat of arms it carries. It was approved on 28 December 1897 and ratified on 14 April 1898. The flag, according to the sources consulted, consists simply of that coat of arms on a green ground.
The Council replaced this green flag with another which, according to the FOTW flag portal, has horizontal yellow and red stripes, those of the Catalan flag, with a light blue lozenge. I have not found any rule approving it nor any free image of it, so it is not shown here.
The meaning lies in the coat of arms:
Green
the ground of the historical flag, with no documented official meaning.
Nine quarters
the coat of arms is divided into nine parts, one for each historical judicial district: Solsona, Pallars, Arán, Seo de Urgel, Lleida, Tremp, Borjas, Urgel and Cervera.
The nine parts of the provincial coat of arms represent neither kings nor battles, but the nine judicial districts into which the province was divided at the time it was approved.
The green flag with the coat of arms was replaced by another of yellow and red stripes with a light blue lozenge, which the Council uses today according to FOTW.
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Flag image: HansenBCN, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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