Talk:Ílhavo

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Actually, the municipal insignia does not depict a Viking vessel, but rather a "Greek" or more likely Phoenician trading ship. This is what most people in Ilhavo will tell you. It's possible the Vikings raided this area but it is almost certain Ilhavo was a stopping point for ancient traders of tin and other goods on their way to and from the coast of England long before the Christian era. It was they who founded the port possibly visited by norsemen a thousand years later.

I don't know where you are from but i am from ilhavo where I lived for 27 years, and I garantee you that the boat on the flag is assumed by a majoroty to be Viking and not greek. but again threre are no evidences that manage to solve the question: Vikings or greeks how was the first one?

Cheers Quiafodu

[edit] White Fleet fisheries.

Please explain what this means. It is obviously not the same thing as White fleet, which is a British Navy term. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 17:43, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

White fleet is the cod fish fleet of the 60s http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/green/various.html ... that is the name it is known in Portugal UK and Canada Cheers Quiafodu

[edit] Popular history.

Hello, all. If you have a story or other folklore about this town, please find where it is so written and quote that source. Wikipedia has a policy against using material that cannot be checked and verified by others. You don't have to say that the stories are true, but we have to have another source — as reputable as possible — for the fact that it really is a local story and not something that you just made up today. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 19:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

It is something from the popular folklore... probably written in some bed time story book of the region... i will try to get the reference.