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Pedro Abad (Municipality, Andalusia, Spain)

Presentation of Pedro Abad
Symbols of Pedro Abad

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Presentation of Pedro Abad

The municipality of Pedro Abad (2,944 inhabitants in 2008; 2,346 ha) is located 35 km north-east of Córdoba.
The Basharat Mosque, inaugurated in Pedro Abad in 1982, is the first mosque built in Spain since the expelling of the Moors in 1492; it is ran by the Ahmaddiya Muslim Community, a Muslim sect founded in India in the late 19th century, established in Spain in 1946 and declared heretic by the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 1973.

Ivan Sache, 8 July 2009

Symbols of Pedro Abad

The flag of Pedro Abad, adopted on 24 October 2007 by the Municipal Council and submitted on 6 November 2007 to the Directorate General of the Local Administration, is prescribed by a Decree adopted on 14 November 2007 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 26 November 2007 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 232, pp. 65-66 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Flag made of two horizontal stripes of equal size; the upper, purple (Pantone 2597cvc), recalling the colour of the flag of Castile; the lower, straw-coloured (Pantons 127cvc), recalling the livery of the soldiers of the lord of Pedro Abad during the reception of Philip IV in 1624. In the middle the official coat of arms of Pedro Abad.

The coat of arms of Pedro Abad is prescribed by Decree No. 1,652, adopted on 15 June 1972 by the Spanish Government and published on 28 June 1972 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 154, p. 11,665 (text). This was confirmed by a Decree adopted on 30 November 2004 by the Government of Andalusia and published on 20 December 2004 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 246, pp. 28,986-29,002 (text).
The coat of arms, validated by the Royal Academy of History, is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Argent two wolves sable a bordure gules charged with seven saltires or (arms of Haro), 2. Checky or and gules two fesses sable (arms of Sotomayor). Grafted argent an abbot's hat sable. The shield surmounted by a Marquis' coronet.

The arms recall that the lords of Pedro Abad at the time of the Reconquest belonged to the houses of Haro and Sotomayor. The abbot's hat represents Abbot [abad] Pedro de Meneses, the founder of Pedro Abad.
[Símbolos de las Entidades Locales de Andalucía. Córdoba (PDF file)]

Ivan Sache, 16 July 2009