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![[Juiz de Fora, MG (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-mg-jf.gif)
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by Joseph McMillan
Based on the explanation at the official
municipal website the flag of Juiz de Fora consists of five horizontal stripes of three
different widths:
The colors are intended to represent the races and ethnic groups that
comprise the population mix of the municipality: Portuguese, indigenous
peoples, negroes, Italians, Germans, Syrians, and Lebanese. At least one of
the colors in the flag of Juiz de Fora is found in the flag of each of these
peoples, with the indigenous Indians--who had no flag--represented by the
red. (The blue presumably comes from the pre-1910 Portuguese flag; what
color is meant to represent Africans is not clear to me.) The triangle is
from the state flag of Minas Gerais and is the symbol of
the Inconfidência Mineira of the late 18th century.
Joseph McMillan, 11 March 2002
![[Juiz de Fora, MG (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-mg!jf.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin,
7 October 2007
A stamp, (http://www.flagsonstamps.info/brazil3098.jpg), issued by the
Brazilian postal authority, uses slightly different specs, though, as seen at
http://isal.camarajf.mg.gov.br/historia/historiaselo.html:
smaller height of the edge stripes and much larger height of the central stripe,
triangle centered on its center, and different color shades: darker blue and
pinkish red.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 October 2007
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