Canarian Nationalist Flags (Spain)

Last modified: 2001-09-08 by santiago dotor
Keywords: spain | canary islands | cross: saltire (white) | stars: 7 (red) | stars: 7 (green) | berber | independentist | movimiento pro-independencia de canarias | atlantic | canarias libre | mpaiac | congreso nacional de canarias |
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• Movement for the Independence of the Canary Islands
• Independent Republic of the Atlantic
• Free Canary Islands
• Movimiento por la Autodeterminación y la Independencia del Archipielago Canario (MPAIAC) / Congreso Nacional Canario (CNC)

See also:

• Spain
• Canary Islands (Spain)
• Spanish political parties and movements

by Jaume Ollé

In the 1950s was born the first independence movement, named Movimiento Pro-Independencia de Canarias, that used a flag based on the provincial maritime ensigns. (After 1927 there were two maritime provinces, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with a blue flag, and white saltire; and the province of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, a blue and yellow flag divided diagonally from the lower hoist to the upper fl