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The coats of arms of the
Portuguese Empire The Portuguese Empire ( pt, Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (''Ultramar Português'') or the Portuguese Colonial Empire (''Império Colonial Português''), was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and the ...
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colonies In modern parlance, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the '' metropolitan state'' ...
were all of a uniform style following 1935. Two of them had, however, been using provisional coats of arms of the same style shortly prior to this.


Gallery

This gallery include the lesser coats of arms. The years given are for the coats of arms. File:Lesser coat of arms of Portuguese West Africa.svg, File:Lesser coat of arms of Portuguese Cape Verde.svg, File:Lesser coat of arms of Portuguese Guinea.svg, File:Lesser coat of arms of Portuguese India.svg, File:Lesser coat of arms of Portuguese Macau.svg, File:Lesser coat of arms of Portuguese East Africa.svg, File:Lesser coat of arms of Portuguese Sao Tome and Principe.svg, File:Lesser coat of arms of Portuguese Timor.svg,


See also

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Coat of arms of Portugal The coat of arms of Portugal is the main heraldic insignia of Portugal. The present model was officially adopted on 30 June 1911, along with the present model of the Flag of Portugal. It is based on the coat of arms used by the Portuguese King ...
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Portuguese heraldry Portuguese heraldry encompasses the modern and historic traditions of heraldry in Portugal and the Portuguese Empire. Portuguese heraldry is part of the larger Iberian tradition of heraldry, one of the major schools of heraldic tradition, and gra ...


References

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Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...