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Mexico - Imaginary States: Republic of Sonora

Last modified: 2005-04-23 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Note by the editor:
Since most of the information and images comes from Greetings from the Republic of Sonora, I thank Editor Eugene George, for allowing us to use the information and images in FOTW.


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About the imaginary Republic of Sonora and its flags

I am the creator of the flags "Naval and Aircraft Ensign of the Republic of Sonora" and "Administrative division of the Republic of Sonora and Lower California".
The flags found on Greetings from the Republic of Sonora are most definitely fictional and ahistorical and were created as an exercise in speculative history and vexillology.
I want to be perfectly clear here, they are not actual examples of any extant flags from Walker's filibustering expeditions in Mexico.
While I am flattered that derivative versions of my work have been included in your fine database I do not wish to add any confusion to researchers or historians.

Eugene George, April 16, 2005.


I personally assume those were never come into effect, even I think they never existed. Note, that the supposed flag for the Republic of Sonora has a triband: blue-white-blue with stars in red. Or, on the other hand, it is about a "mini-state", "imaginary-nation" or "micronation".
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, Jan. 29, 2002


All the content on Greetings from the Republic of Sonora is fake, as it's a fictivous state of a game. So maybe the flags are fictious, too. Remark: William Walker's lifeline is correct in the beginning, but is changed to phantasy in the end. "1894 William Walker dies at age 70." - No, Walker died in 1860 in Nicaragua, where he was shot. As you write on your page, William Walker gave up to General Burton and was taken to San Francisco. He returned to Central America, where he intervened in the Nicaraguan war. The whole site is only fiction, and so the flags shown here are too.
Ralf Stelter, January 13, 2005.


Flag of the imaginary Republic of Sonora

Note by the editor:
The following images are "re-gifs" of those in: Greetings from the Republic of Sonora.

Flag of the imaginary Republic of Sonora
by Eugene George,
re-gif by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, January 13, 2005.


The Aero-Naval Ensign of the Republic of Sonora

Note by the editor:
The following images are "re-gifs" of those in: Greetings from the Republic of Sonora.

The Aero-Naval Ensign of the Republic of Sonora
by Eugene George,
re-gif by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, January 13, 2005.


Administrative division of the Republic of Sonora

Note by the editor:
The following images are "re-gifs" of those in: Greetings from the Republic of Sonora.


Flag of the State of Lower California as part of the imaginary Republic of Sonora
by Eugene George,
re-gif by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 30, 2001.


Flag of the State of Sonora as part of the imaginary Republic of Sonora
by Eugene George,
re-gif by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 30, 2001.