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on July 29, 1811, becoming a free and independent state. In recognition of this, the
President of Antioquia JosĂ© MarĂa Montoya Duque adopted by special decree the issued accord of the Supreme Legislative Power, the Great Seal of Antioquia on September 2, 1811, for its use as the seal and insignia of
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That the State take for arms in its public escutcheons and in the great seal of the
Dispatch of business, a matron dressed and adorned Indian, seated between the plantain and the palm, and reclining at the foot of a hill Or, with a rushing river at her feet, uncapping in the most graceful attitude a
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actress named
Virginia Fábregas. The coat of arms is currently used as a symbol of the state and is displayed at departmental buildings and offices, issued in official documentation, cast into a medal awarded by the department, and used in conjunction with the civilian flag of Antioquia to form the
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as its state insignia and arms. To differentiate each state, an addition around the coat of arms was added; it consisted of an oval band in gules surrounding the coat of arms with the name of the country at the time on top, and at the bottom, separated by a star in argent at each side, the legend:
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Although the coat of arms was adopted and blazoned in 1812, the coat of arms would only take form until 1912 when it was officially recreated for the occasion of the centenary of the independence of
Antioquia by orders of the historian JosĂ© MarĂa Mesa Jaramillo and executed by Daniel Mesa, and
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The rulers wanted not only to record the autonomy of the New State, but they wanted to symbolize its wealth and virtue with the golden hill, its triumphs and victories with the palm, its abundance with the plantain tree, its freedom with the
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as its state arms. Antioquia reverted to the original coat of arms in 1912 for the occasion of the centenary of the independence of
Antioquia and it has been in official use ever since.
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The design of the Great Seal was purposefully design to represent the whole territory of
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A golden medal with the coat of arms of
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the state, as well as its use in the uniforms of its
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during this period as no formal banner had been adopted by the department until 1962.
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515:[Santa Fe de Antioquia -A Brief Monography-]
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Coat of arms under the United States of New Granada.
511:Gabriel Baena, JosĂ©; Gustavo Vives MejĂa (2002).
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189:Great State Seal of the Republic of Antioquia
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144:Decreto NÂş 21 del 23 de agosto de 1812
174:Colombian Declaration of Independence
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488:Flag of the Department of Antioquia
172:Amidst the unfolding events of the
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196:Blazon of the Great Seal
118:coat of arms of Colombia
104:and subsequently to the
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571:"Historia de Antioquia"
438:Department of Antioquia
373:Coat of arms under the
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452:Precedence
386:Decoration
296:federation
206:marshalled
252:Marinilla
229:Castilian
89:Antioquia
545:"Escudo"
482:See also
427:Colombia
304:republic
268:Zaragoza
264:Remedios
256:Rionegro
248:MedellĂn
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108:and the
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276:YolombĂł
272:Cáceres
240:charges
161:Mexican
47:Adopted
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447:Active
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202:argent
191:(1811)
130:blazon
112:, the
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