Mozambican colonial flags

Last modified: 2005-04-29 by jarig bakker
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Colonial Flag

The Portuguese colonies were regarded as integral parts of Portugal and did not have flags of their own. However, there were flags for the Portuguese governors and governors general of the overseas provinces. There was a project to give the Portugese colonies/overseas provinces distinctive flags, but these were never adopted. The pattern for theseflags was: Portugese flag with in the lower fly the shield of the coat of arms of the territory, as shown above. These coats of arms were already in existence, and the shields of all consisted of two sub-shields, dexter representing the motherland, sinister the territory, and the base the oceans between them. The sub-shield of Mozambique was silver with seven green arrows pointing downwards, tied together with a red ribbon.
Mark Sensen, 30 July 1996

It's interesting that the colonial flags of Mozambique relate only to the Overseas Province of Mozambique, not to the previous dispensation under the Kingdom of Portugal and the first three decades of the Portuguese Republic where what we today call Mozambique was a grouping of separate colonies, labelled for conv