Coat of arms of Melilla

The coat of arms shows Melilla in blue two pale -looking golden Asked Henkel baskets with gold-red wattle geschachtem in each of which two schwarzgezungte green seven-headed hydras up meander. The eighteen times in red with golden fort and blue door and windows and silver with rotgezungten gold-crowned red lion gestückte board surrounds everything; Castles and lions are reminiscent of Castile and León and thus the conquest of the city by Spain in 1497th

In addition to the silver plate uncrowned Pillars of Hercules stand by the silver ribbon with the black font in capital letters: "NON PLUS ULTRA. " Above the shield is a golden castle on the golden crown and a silver- clad man with a red scarf and a dagger holding grows from the crenellated castle tower. A silver ribbon displays the motto " PRAEFERE Patriam liberis PARENTEM DECET " written in black and large capital letters.

The green dragon is rotgezungte resist seeing under the coat of arms.

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