![]() ![]() In the ensuing decades, these colours were popularly propagandised as representing the hope of the nation (green) and the blood of those who died defending it (red), as a means to endow them with a more patriotic and dignified, therefore less political, sentiment. Since a failed republican insurrection on 31 January 1891, red and green had been established as the colours of the Portuguese Republican Party and its associated movements, whose political prominence kept growing until it reached a culmination period following the Republican revolution of 5 October 1910. The conjugation of the new field color, especially the use of green, was not traditional in the Portuguese national flag's composition and represented a radical republican-inspired change that broke the bond with the former monarchical flag. This new national flag for the First Portuguese Republic, was selected by a special commission whose members included Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, João Chagas and Abel Botelho. However, it was only on 30 June 1911, that the official decree approving this flag as the official flag was published. Its presentation was done on 1 December 1910, after the downfall of the constitutional monarchy on 5 October 1910. The lesser version of the national coat of arms of Portugal ( armillary sphere and Portuguese shield) is centered over the colour boundary at equal distance from the upper and lower edges. It is a rectangular bicolour with a field divided into green on the hoist, and red on the fly. The Flag of Portugal ( Portuguese: Bandeira de Portugal) is the national flag of the Portuguese Republic. Bandeira dae Quinas (Flag of the quinas ( "Quina" being a Portuguese word meaning "a group of five")), Bandeira Verde-Rubra (Green-Red Flag)Ī 2:3 vertically striped bicolour of green and red, with the lesser coat of arms of Portugal centered over the colour boundaryĪs above, but evenly striped (1:1) and with the greater coat of arms, displaying a white scroll with the motto "Esta é a ditosa pátria minha amada" ("This is my beloved blissful homeland"), taken from Os Lusíadas, III, 21, v. ![]()
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