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Municipality of Alicún (Almería Province, Andalusia, Spain)

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image by Wikimedia User:Miguillen, 14 Jul 2009

Introduction
Description

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Introduction

The municipality of Alicún (261 inhabitants in 2008; 600 ha) is located in the Alpujarra mountains, 30 km north-west of Almería.

Alicún was listed as a hamlet of Huécija on the chart granting the "taha" of Marchena (a former Moorish administrative division) to Gutierre de Cárdenas. In the 16th century, Alicún was listed, as a village, among the ten places forming the Duchy of Maqueda. Totally uninhabited after the expelling of the Moriscos in 1570, Alicún was resettled in 1574 but did not significantly reemerge until the 18th century. The abolition of the Duchy of Maqueda, decided in 1835, made of Alicún an independent municipality, eventually separated from Huécija. In the middle of the 19th century, the cultivation of the local grape variety known as "uva de Johanes" (Johanes grape, after the town of Ohanes) boosted the development of the village.

The source of Alicún was used by the Romans to build thermae, subsequently transformed in a hammam decribed by the geographer Al- Idrisi (12th century) as "al-Hammam Vexitan," that is the Huécija Baths.

Source: Municipal website

There is no hint that the flag of Alicún was inspired by the Basque flag and the similarity in design must be a mere coincidence.

Ivan Sache, 14 Jul 2009

Description

The flag of Alicún was approved by the Municipal Council on 18 October 2006 and submitted on 8 November 2006 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed it by Decree on 16 November 2006, published in the Andalusian official gazette (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía, BOJA) No. 238 on 12 December 2006.

The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:

Panel in proportions 3/2 (length to hoist), green; with a saltire divided per fess white and red, overall a blue cross, both 1/12 of the hoist.

The symbols should be registered on the Andalusian Register of Local Entities, with their official written description and graphics (as originally submitted, but unfortunately not appended to the Decree).

Source: BOJA No. 238, p. 46, 12 Dec 2006

According to Almeriapedia, the colours of the flag, taken from the municipal arms, have the following meaning: - green represents the fields; - white represents the houses; - blue represents water and the sky; - red represents the villagers.

Source: Almeriapedia

Ivan Sache, 14 Jul 2009