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Back in 1910, after the republican revolution in Portugal, a number of different
designs where proposed for the flag of the new republic, and this originated a large
and not always peaceful debate. The main question was weather to keep the
liberal (and also traditional) colours of the monarchy
(blue and white) or adopt the red and green of the republican
party. A number of conciliation projects arose in the process.
Jorge Candeias, 15 Jun 1998
After the republican revolution in Portugal in 1910, many projects for the new
flag were presented in newspapers and magazines. In 1994, a detailed (although
not very careful) research was done on this subject, and the exibition organizers
came up with dozens of those projects, published also in the exibition catalogue
[p9t94].
António Martins, 28 May 1997
A few years ago the magazine Público Magazine published an article called
“The war of the flags” (“A Guerra das Bandeiras”)
[p9t9X] on the discussions about the
new portuguese national flag in 1910 with pictures of some proposals. From what I
remember, there where two fields: those that wanted to keep the traditional blue
and white colours, and the ’hard line’ republicans that prevailed. In this last field
I think that the proposals were mainly two: red-green flag with shields, armilla, and
so on, and ’naked’ red-green flag. In the first field, there where monarchics, that
wanted to keep the flag as was before, and a number of people that proposed white-blue
flags with the addition of some republican devices.
Jorge Candeias, 13 Aug 1997
Another source is a book that was published as a series in the newspaper
PÚBLICO, entitled Século XX (20th century). In the section devoted to
the republican revolution in 1910 and the changes in symbolics it brought, it shows
26 flag projects, all seemingly reproductions of contemporary originals.
Jorge Candeias, 21 Mar 2001
Note that most of those are reconstructions or, as it is mentioned in source, "interpretations of given descriptions".
Source:
That is the least of the several vexillological mistakes of the above mentioned source.
Source: João Mário Mascarenhas (coord.): "Bandeiras portuguesas…Bandeiras de Portugal", Museu República e Resistência, Lisboa 2000; a redesigned but otherwise unmodified version of Bandeiras de Portugal 1994
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Feb 2016
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