Portuguese Guinea (Guinea Bissau before 1974)

Last modified: 2017-03-13 by rob raeside
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• The Portuguese Guinea Company
• 1967 proposal
  • detail
• Military flag

See also:

• Colonial municipal flags
  • Bissau
  • Bissorã
  • Catió
  • Farim
  • Nova Lamego (Gabu)
  • Teixeira Pinto (Canchungo)
• Historical flags of Guinea Bissau
• Portuguese Colonial flags

The Portuguese Guinea Company

Guinea Bissau (Portuguese Guinea) was founded as a colony by the Portuguese Guinea Company.
Anónio Martins, 26 June 2000

1967 proposal

image by António Martins, 29 Jun 2016

One of the Langhans’ proposals for the Portuguese Overseas Provinces, consisting of the 1935 lesser arms in the lower fly of the portuguese flag.
António Martins, 14 Sep 1997

detail

image by António Martins, 29 Jun 2016

Shield of the the 1935 arms.
António Martins, 14 Sep 1997

Military flag

image by António Martins, 16 Jun 2009

You can see on line the regimental color of the Portuguese Guinea Provincial Military Command, wich existed until the independence of Guinea-Bissau in 1975 and was brought into action in 1961, to fight the local colonial war. (See also these two English Wikipedia articles.) It is a regular Portuguese military color, with the usual addition of a white scroll under the emblem with the name of the unit. In this case, it reads "COMANDO MILITAR DA PROVÍNCIA DA GUINÉ", in embroidered capitals, the middle word "da" in half size.
António Martins, 16 Jun 2009

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