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Flag of the Portuguese Brazil: The armillary sphere representing the Portuguese navigation on a white field; was the banner of the Princes of Brazil. 1630–1654 Flag of the Dutch Brazil / New Holland 1789 Flag of Inconfidência Mineira: 1798 Flag used in Revolt of the Tailors: 1816–1822 Flag of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the ...
The national flag of Brazil is a blue disc depicting a starry sky (which includes the Southern Cross) spanned by a curved band inscribed with the national motto Ordem e Progresso ('Order and Progress'), within a yellow rhombus, on a green field.
Flag of the Second Empire of Brazil, with 20 stars, representing the new provincies of Rio Negro (1850, later Amazonas) and Paraná (1853), furthermore the loss of the province of Cisplatina (1828). Reformed standard according to this book, an official publication of the government of Brazil, on page 74 .
This work is in the public domain in Brazil for one of the following reasons: It is a work published or commissioned by a Brazilian government (federal, state, or municipal) prior to 1983. ( Law 3071/1916, art. 662 ; Law 5988/1973, art. 46 ; Law 9610/1998, art. 115 )
Flag replacement ceremonies (held in military institutions, in schools, etc., and periodically also at the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília, the capital of Brazil, to replace the flag that hovers over the seat of the Brazilian government), usually consist of the Flag Anthem being played while the old flag is lowered, and the National Anthem being played while the new flag is raised.
The Landing of Cabral in Porto Seguro; oil on canvas by Oscar Pereira da Silva, 1904.Collection of the National Historical Museum of Brazil. The first arrival of European explorers to the territory of present-day Brazil is often understood as the sighting of the land later named Island of Vera Cruz, near Monte Pascoal, by the fleet commanded by Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral, on 22 ...
On 1 April 1817, the Provisional Government of the state of Paraíba do Norte [a] declared a new flag to represent itself alongside the state of Pernambuco. [1] While both states were by law provinces of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, being the province of Paraíba [] and Pernambuco, they alongside with the province of Rio Grande were embroiled in the Pernambucan ...
Brazilian mythology is the combination of many regional cultural traditions, primarily the traditions of the indigenous groups that have inhabited the region for thousands of years.