Flag of Rio de Janeiro (state)

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Rio de Janeiro
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Adopted5 October 1965;58 years ago (1965-10-05)

The flag of Rio de Janeiro is the official flag of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. [1]

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History

The flag was officially instituted by State Law No. 5588 of 5 October 1965. The author of the coat of arms and flag project was Dr. Alberto Rosa Fioravanti, [2] at the request of the then Governor of the State, General Paulo Torres. [3] The flag was re-confirmed on 23 July 1975 following the state's merger with Guanabara.

Previous flags

During the period of the Empire, the then-province of Rio de Janeiro used an informal nautical flag, similar in design to the current one, but without a coat of arms and with the upper left and lower right rectangles in blue.

After the creation of the state of Rio de Janeiro with the constitution of 1891, the old provincial flag was used, with a change in the position of the blue and white quarters, and with the addition of the state coat of arms.

Until 1937, when the Vargas Government prohibited state symbologies through the 1937 Constitution, Rio de Janeiro used a very similar flag and coat of arms, as described in the legislation of the coat of arms of the state of Rio de Janeiro. In 1947, after the edition of a new state constitution and the authorization for the use of symbols by states and municipalities by the 1946 Brazilian Constitution, the old flag returned to use, until 1965, with the edition of the aforementioned law, which regulated and regularized the use of that flag. [2] [4]

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