File:Portugal flag.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file ‎(988 × 990 pixels, file size: 87 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
  • The five blue shields represents the five moor kings defeated by the first King of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques, at the Battle of Ourique.
  • The dots inside the blue shields represent the five wounds of Christ when crucified.
  • The seven castles represents the fortified cities D. Afonso Henriques conquered from the moors.
  • The globe represents the world discovered by the Portuguese navigators in the fifteen and sixteenth centuries.
  • The green strip is meant to symbolize the hope in the future and the red the blood of the nation’s heroes.
(taken from http://www.un.int/portugal/flagexplanation.htm)
Date
Source originally posted to Flickr as Portugal flag
Author Sébastien Bertrand
Permission
(Reusing this file)
This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 24 July 2008, 06:26 by Sdrtirs. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the license indicated.
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

4 January 2006

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current06:27, 24 July 2008Thumbnail for version as of 06:27, 24 July 2008988 × 990 (87 KB)Flickr upload botUploaded from http://flickr.com/photo/33195821@N00/82187401 using Flickr upload bot
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portugal_flag.jpg"