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Use: Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: December 22, 1895; 129 years ago () by pro-independence members of the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico exiled in New York City; members identified colors as red, white, and blue but did not specify color shades; some historians have presumed members adopted light blue shade based on the light blue flag of the ...
Coat of arms of CRPR, representing an independent Republic of Puerto Rico, features, atop the motto Patria y Libertad (Homeland and Liberty), the flag of Puerto Rico, the island in front of a rising sun, the three red (blood of warriors) and two white (peace after independence) stripes of the flag, and the lion of the Spanish Kingdom being ...
Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, while the capital city was named Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). [21] Eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading/shipping port and the capital ...
Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha ... Flag of Puerto Rico. Flag ...
(Spanish for "Island of Enchantment") [5] Puerto Rico does not have an official bird. In 2001 the legislature passed a bill designating the pitirre ( Tyrannus dominicensis ), but the governor vetoed the bill because although native to it is not endemic to Puerto Rico.
On Oct. 18 of that year, the U.S. took control of Puerto Rico and raised the American flag on the island — a decision with echoing consequences still felt 125 years later.
Solomon Islands Solomon Aelan: Honiara Honiala: English Neo-Solomonic: Somalia: Mogadishu: Soomaaliya aş-Şūmāl الصومال: Muqdisho Maqadīshū مقديشو: Somali Arabic (Arabic script) South Africa: Pretoria (administrative capital), Cape Town (legislative capital), Bloemfontein, (judicial capital) South Africa Suid-Afrika iNingizimu ...
But that wasn’t enough for the archbishop of San Juan, Roberto O. Gonzalez Nieves, or Angel Cintrón, the chair of Puerto Rico’s Republican Party, who also called for an apology. “I enjoy a ...