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The '''flag of Ceuta''' ({{lang-es|Bandera de Ceuta}}) is the [[flag]] of the [[Spain|Spanish]] city of [[Ceuta]], consisting of a black and white [[gyronny]] with a central [[Escutcheon (heraldry)|escutcheon]] displaying the [[Coat of arms of Ceuta|municipal coat of arms]]. The civil flag omits the escutcheon.

The gyronny field is identical to that of the [[flag of Lisbon]], to commemorate the fact of that flag having been the first raised in Ceuta by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] when they [[Conquest of Ceuta|conquered the city]] in 1415.<ref name="News1973">{{cite book|author=CBS News|title=The New York Times Encyclopedic Almanac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEMKAQAAMAAJ|access-date=8 July 2013|year=1973|publisher=New York Times, Book & Educational Division.|page=750}}</ref>

== History ==
The city was a part of the [[Portuguese Empire]] until the end of the [[Iberian Union]] in 1640, after which it decided to remain with Spain.<ref name="Drinkwater1786">{{cite book|author=John Drinkwater|title=A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar: With a Description and Account of that Garrison, from the Earliest Periods|url=https://archive.org/details/historyoflatesie00drin|access-date=8 July 2013|year=1786|publisher=T. Spilsbury|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyoflatesie00drin/page/95 95]–}}</ref> Thus the coat of arms of the city is nearly identical to that of the [[Coat of arms of Portugal|Kingdom of Portugal]], showing the seven castles over the red bordure and the five [[Escutcheon (heraldry)|escutcheons]] with [[Argent|silver]] [[Roundel (heraldry)|roundels]].<ref name="McMurdo1889">{{cite book|author=Edward McMurdo|title=The History of Portugal: The history of Portugal from the reign of D. João II to the reign of D. João V|publisher=S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington|url=https://archive.org/details/historyportugal05mcmugoog|access-date=8 July 2013|year=1889|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyportugal05mcmugoog/page/n45 25]}}</ref>

==References==
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==Other websites==
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