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The El Salvadorian Stars and Stripes with 9 stars had a square
canton. It was adopted on 28th April 1865. The law described the
canton as having as many stars as there are provinces, but we
have no records about flags with eleven or thirteen stars (which
would have been possible), but a postage stamp of 1867 shows the
arms with eleven stars and one of 1879 with thirteen stars(!).
With number of stars rising the canton became longer.
The ensign had the coat of arms in the canton, but only on the
obverse! On the reverse the stars were shown! So it happens that
in the arms there are two flags. Sometimes the great coat of arms
was shown, sometimes a lesser version, sometimes within a white
circle sometimes directy on the red field.
The official name of the state was "El Salvador" since
12 June 1824 but as the Magna Carta of 1824 wrote: "El
Estado se denominar? Estado del Salvador.", the name
"Salvador" was used. From 1896 the name "El
Salvador" was used on postage stamps, on coins it came in
use in 1911, and a decree of 1915 prescribed the name "El
Salvador" always to be written "...de El Slvador"
and not "...del Salvador".
Sources are El Salvadorian literature, official E