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The Ceiba coat of arms depicts a shield with a Ceiba tree. In the upper part of the shield is a red horizontal space with a golden cross in the middle and a golden fleur-de-lis on either side. The cross symbolizes the Christian faith as well recognizing Luis de la Cruz as Ceiba's founder. Around the shield are sugar cane stalks.
The coat of arms of Puerto Rico was first granted by the Spanish Crown on November 8, 1511, making it the oldest heraldic achievement in use in the Americas. [1] The territory was seized from Spain and ceded to the United States as a result of the Treaty of Paris that put an end to the Spanish–American War in 1899, after which two interim arms were adopted briefly.
Ceiba pentandra is the national emblem of Guatemala, [19] Puerto Rico, [27] and Equatorial Guinea. It appears on the coat of arms and flag of Equatorial Guinea. [28] The Cotton Tree was a landmark in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone, and is considered a symbol of freedom for the former slaves that immigrated there. The 70-metre-tall trunk ...
Español: En campo de oro, una ceiba al natural, terrasada de sinople; el jefe de gules con una cruz flordelisada de oro, acostada de dos flores de lis del mismo metal. Al timbre, corona mural de oro, mazonada de sable y aclarada de sinople, y rodeando el escudo, por sus flancos y punta, dos tallos de caña de azúcar, con sus hojas, al natural, cruzados por lo bajo.
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design [1] on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its whole consists of a shield, supporters, a crest, and a motto.
The original coat of arms was restored after Nguema was deposed on 21 August 1979. [2] The arms consists of a silver shield with a silk-cotton tree, or Ceiba in the local language, which was derived from the arms of Rio Muni. Above the shield is an arc of 6 six-pointed yellow stars, that represent Rio Muni and the offshore islands.
Vermandois coat of arms, the oldest known, circa 1115, adopted for a county that had been ruled by the last Carolingians. The origin of coats of arms is the invention, in medieval western Europe, of the emblematic system based on the blazon, which is described and studied by heraldry.
Coat of arms of Cuba Crest : In place of a crest, atop a fasces , a red phrygian cap charged with a Mullet of five points Argent. Escutcheon : Per pale, the first bendy sinister of five Azure and Argent; the second a landscape with a palmtree and two mountains in the distance, all proper; and on a chief under a rising sun a strait closed by a ...