The national flag of the Portuguese Republic is a rectangular bicolour with a field divided into green on the hoist and red on the fly. The lesser version of the national coat of arms of Portugal (armillary sphere and Portuguese shield) is centred over the colour boundary at equal distance from the upper and lower edges.
The conjugation of the new field colour, especially the use of green, was not traditional in the Portuguese national flag's composition and represented a radical republican-inspired change that broke the bond with the former monarchical flag. Since a failed republican insurrection on 31 January 1891, red and green had been established as the colours of the Portuguese Republican Party and its associated movements, whose political prominence kept growing until it reached a culmination period following the Republican revolution of 5 October 1910. In the ensuing decades, these colours were popularly propagandised, green represented the hope of the nation and the colour red represented the blood of those who died defending it, this happened to endow them with a more patriotic and dignified, therefore less political, sentiment.
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