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Angola was divided into two colonies. In the 1920s stamps were issued
separately for Angola and for Portuguese Congo (this last colony consisting
of Cabinda and Zaïre provinces, Zaïre lying to the south of the
Congo River mouth). The colony of Congo Portuguesa would seem to have been
an attempt to revive the BaKongo state - I see you illustrate a flag for
Kakongo,
although it is not surprising that you have no illustrations of flags for
earlier states of the BaKongo.
Mike Oettle, 20 Dec 2001
The General Army Command of Angola (Comando Geral Militar de Angola)
used the Welwitschia mirabilis (which grows in Namibia and
southern
Angola) as its coat of arms' main charge, instead of the
1935 colonial coat of arms sinister mantel, like the commands of the other
former Portuguese colonies of Mozambique,
São
Tomé and Principe, [Portuguese]
Guinea and
Cape Verde. This is a
putative banner of arms of the Army Command.
António Martins, 21 April 1998
Heraldist F. P. de Almeida Langhans published in p. 67 of his Armorial
do Ultramar Português (Lisbon, 1965) [lgh65]
provided a general model for the overseas "provinces" flags: The Portuguese national flag defaced
with the shield of the lesser arms of each province centered in the lower
fly quarter of the red field. This proposal was approved in 1967, but never
came into effect. The colonial arms, decreed on 8 June 1935, had a shield
of the same pattern, tierced in mantel, the dexter silver, five escutcheons
in saltire, each charged with five bezants, gold, in cross; and the point
silver, five waves green. The remaining sinister mantel had some local
emblem: Angola: Purple, an elephant and a zebra, both proper, passant dexter,
per pale.
Antonio Martíns, 8 July 1997, corrected 14 September
1997