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 East Timor was a Portuguese colony until 1975.
-In 1935 the then Portuguese colony received its first arms, based on the same structure as all Portuguese colonies (compare [[Angola]], [[Macao]] and [[Mozambique]]). The upper right half and the bottom are identical for all colonies and show the 5 shields of the Portuguese National arms and the waves for the 'overseas' colonies. The upper left half differs between the colonies and for East Timor a black and white Dominican cross in recognition of the role played by the Dominican Order in converting the East Timorese to Roman Catholicism.
+In 1935 the then Portuguese colony received its first arms, based on the same structure as all Portuguese colonies (compare [[Angola]], [[Macao]] and [[Mozambique]]). The upper right half and the bottom are identical for all colonies and show the 5 shields of the Portuguese National arms and the waves for the 'overseas' colonies. The upper left half differs between the colonies and for East Timor a black and white Dominican cross in recognition of the role played by the [[Dominican Order]] in converting the East Timorese to Roman Catholicism.
 When in 1951 the colony was transformed into a province, the text on the banner was changed from Colony to Province, but the arms itself remained unchanged. The arms were abandoned at the independence in 1975.