San Remo
| Republic of San Remo | |
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 Coat of arms
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Motto: "Deus lo vult" (Latin) God wants it | |
 Location of San Remo | |
| Capital and largest city | Rhea |
| Official languages | Spanish, Portuguese, Latin |
| Demonym | San Remano/a |
| Government | |
• President | Juan García Aragón |
| Establishment | |
• Independence from Spain | 1889 |
| Area | |
• Total | 111,296 km2 (42,972 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2013 estimate | 10,267,340 |
• Density | 92.3/km2 (239.1/sq mi) |
| Currency | Peso (COP) |
| Date format | DD/MM/YYYY |
| Drives on the | right |
| Internet TLD | .sr |
San Remo, officially the Republic of San Remo, is a sovereign state, located on the northern continent of Internatia. The capital is Rhea, the largest city of the country by both land area and population. San Remo is bordered by Sockistan to the northwest, Anselmsuusonia to the east, Kosma to the southeast and by the sea to the north and the southwest.
History
Vasco da Gama
The history of modern San Remo started when Vasco da Gama reached the northcoast of the current state in 1498. San Remo existed of different countries back then. Those countries were formed into one territory and joined the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves (Reino de Portugal e dos Algarves) in 1499. The territory was named after the city of San Remo (which was named after St. Remigius). San Remo became the capital of the territory.
Spain
San Remo was a part of the Kingdom of Portugal for 169 years. In 1668, when Spain recognized the end of the Iberian Union, Portugal ceded San Remo, together with Ceuta, to the Spanish crown in exchange. Rhea became the new capital of Spanish San Remo and the official language became Spanish, but also Portuguese (a big part of the nation was of Portuguese origin) and Latin (teached at schools) remained official languages.
National flag
The national flag of San Remo is a tricolor flag. The horizontal fesses are bands of equal size in the colours, from top to bottom, yellow, orange and green. The flag proportions (width:length) are 2:3.
The flag was created during the struggle for independence from Spain. The colours were intended to symbolise the following: the yellow colour is the national colour and stands for the sun, but also for optimism and pleasure, the orange stands for the land and its fertility and the green stands for hope (which played an important role in the struggle for independence).
| Scheme | Yellow | Orange | Green |
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| RGB | (255,255,0) | (237,126,0) | (0,153,0) |
| HTML | FFFF00 | ED7E00 | 009900 |
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of San Remo is based on Christianity, the religion of the country. The coat of arms features a picture of the defeat of Satan by the Archangel Michael. At the top there are two Angels looking down at the event. Between the Angels is the cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, a Roman Catholic order of knighthood under the protection of the pope. The national motto "Deus lo vult" (God wants it) on the coat of arms became an important sentence during the struggle for independence, but moreover it represents the will of a person to worship the will of God and to accept his own destiny.