Banner o Brazil

The naitional banner o Brazil () is a blue disc depictin a starry sky spanned bi a curved baund inscribed wi the naitional motto, athin a yellae rhombus, on a green field. Brazil offeecially adoptit this design for its naitional banner on November 19, 1889, replacin the banner o the seicont Empire o Brazil. The concept wis the wirk o Raimundo Teixeira Mendes, wi the collaboration o Miguel Lemos, Manuel Pereira Reis an Décio Villares.

The green field an the yellae rhombus frae the previous imperial banner wur preserved – the green an yellae colors representin the Braganza-Habsburg dynasty.The World Factbook: Brazil – Flag description  CIA. Retrieved on 2010-10-08. A blue circle wi 27 white five-pointit starns replaced the airms o the Empire o Brazil. The starns, whose poseetion in the banner reflect the sky ower Rio de Janeiro on November 15, 1889, represent the union's federatit units – each starn representin a specific state. The motto "Ordem e Progresso" ("Order an Progress") is inspired bi Auguste Comte's motto o positivism: "L’amour pour principe et l’ordre pour base; le progrès pour but" ("Love as a principle an order as the basis; progress as the goal").Bandeiras e significados  Historianet. Retrieved on 2010-10-09. .

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