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image by Ben Cahoon, Jul 2011
At last! 16 years after Principe became an autonomous
region adopted its flag. From local news sites I understand it was first flown
in late April this year (Apr 29, 1995, being the date of autonomy). It’s
a vertical triband of green-white-blue with the national
coat of arms in the canton and in the middle in the white stripe I believe
its the parrot from the national coat of arms.
Paraskevas Renesis, 11 Jun 2011
The flag is real. Here is one of the
news
articles.
Valentin Poposki, 12 Jun 2011
This
newsstory dated 2011.05.03 says that «Príncipe
entoou pela primeira vez no último fim-de-semana, o seu hino e hasteou
a sua nova bandeira. Símbolos de uma região autónoma,
que se confirmou no ano passado com a aprovação do estatuto
político e administrativo.» (= «Príncipe sung for
the first time this weekend its anthem and hoisted its new flag. Symbols of an
autonomous region which got confirmed last year by the approval of its
political and administrative status.»)
António Martins, 19 Jun 2011
Here’s
a photo of the Legislative Assembly building and 2 flags flying in front.It
seems to me that they are the national and the new regional flag.
Paraskevas Renesis, 12 Jun 2011
First reports online at http://www.egov.st/
were met with distrust: The domain name is egov.st, not
something.gov.st. Anyone can register almost any domain
under the tld .st (from a German company…) — the
goverment of the country reserves for itself only a few domains, and
principe.st is where I’d expect to see the flag.
António Martins, 30 Jun 2011
I know no reports on a flag of Principe Island.
António Martins, 08 Au 1999
I have met today the brother of the Sao Tome defense
minister. I obtain from him first hand information on flag
use in his country. The man was, 17 years ago, the leader
of the Youth organization of Sao Tome, but in this era
this organization didn’t have flag of their own. He was
president of the delegation of Youth people that traveled
to Principe Island but no flags different from the
national one were hoisted then.
Jaume Ollé, 03 Jul 2000
Michel Sicard, former Secretary general of the
Societé Française de
Vexillologie, said to me that in April of 1995, the
Island of Principe acquired an autonomous government. No
reports on flag.
Jordi Pérez, 01 October 1997.
In the 1981 revolt of the island against the Sao Tome power,
a rebel flag was hoisted, but is unknown to me.
Jaume Ollé, 09 Nov 1996
Durán [drn95] reports
the following for the pre-1975 flag of the
municipality headed by the city of São Tomé (not
for the whole island!): Flag gyronny (city
rank) of blue and white (in the usual variants of 2:3 and 1:1),
the arms over all. This is gules, five open cacao nuts set in saltire
(Durán says «in palo», «per pale»,
but the illustration shows per saltire, which is much more
logical…), shells or, seeds argent lined
sable; bordure argent with seven eschuteons azure, each with
five bezants argent per saltire. Mural crown or (overseas
province capital rank) of five towers (city rank), white
scroll reading in black capitals CIDADE DE SÃO
TOMÉ.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 08 Aug 1999
As for subnational flags in São Tomé and Príncipe,
before independence at least some of the local municipalities
had coats of arms and flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 08 Aug 1999
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