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Pernambuco (Brazil)

by zeljko heimer

See Brazil

Pernambuco had its flag even before the Independence of Brazil. It represents the Pernambucan Revolution, of 1817 which, before the times of Empire, proclaimed in the country, the republican form of government. The flag was forgotten for a long time, until in 1917,
zeljko heimer 13-MAR-1996

In 1817 a republican revolution attempted to put an end to the monarchy. The revolutionaries used a flag with the blue and white colors (the Portuguese traditional colors) in the one which the blue was symbolizing the sky and the white the land; the cross was for the religion; the rainbow was signalling the beginning of a new period; the upper star was symbolizing the State and the sun was lighting the future. In 1917 Manuel Antonio Pererira Borda, governor of the state, converted it in official flag of the province.
Jaume Olle - 28-JUN-1996