City of Abella de la Conca (Lleida Province, Catalonia, Spain)

Last modified: 2003-01-11 by santiago dotor
Keywords: abella de la conca | catalonia | lleida | stripes: 5 (black) | stripes: 11 (yellow-black) |
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by Blas Delgado and Eduardo Panizo

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See also:

• Lleida Province (Catalonia, Spain)
• Catalonia (Spain)
• Spain

The arms are derived from the arms of the Abella family, who used three bees in a red field. The bee itself is canting (abella in Catalan). Abella de la Conca was founded by Ramón Abella, a knight of King James I, around the year 1000 or 1100 during the Reconquista.

Blas Delgado, 9 October 2001

A yellow flag with five thin black horizontal stripes in the central horizontal third of the flag. Colours from the arms, which show a gold bee (Catalan abella) on a black field, as it appears in the city webpage.

Santiago Dotor, 28 November 2002