Coat of arms of the Azores

From the crest of the Azores, a group of nine large and several smaller Portuguese Atlantic islands, nine stars and the dove have been included in the flag of the Azores only in gold.

Description

The rotgebordete coat of arms with nine golden five-pointed stars is silver and displays a blue rotgeschnäbelten and gezungten and rotgeständerten Goshawk ( Accipiter gentilis). On the escutcheon is placed a golden clasp helmet with red lining and blue - silver thorn cut helmet covers. From the overlying blue - silver Helmwulst grows with nine golden mullets, four of them up on the wings, the hawk.

Supporters are on both sides black and silbergehörnte goldbehufte erected bulls with golden collar on a free-hanging gold chain. Both them holding a blue flag stick with a golden foot and mast top, on the right, white on goldgefasstem bunting a red paws cross with white vulgar cross is defined and passed to the left as well, but in red, a white dove on a gold-colored crosshairs flies.

Under the shield is a golden ribbon with the motto in black Gothic letters " Antes que em paz sujeitos morrer livres " (engl.: " Better to die as free men than in peace subjugated to be ").

Symbolism

The dove symbolizes the Holy Spirit and refers to one of the oldest religions in the Azores. The bull is to show the meat industry ( beef). The paws cross is the sign of the Order of Christ. The hawk as a heraldic bird refers to the naming of the islands: Ilhas dos Açores (Portuguese ) to German: Habicht Islands.

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