''Cantos nacionales'' ("national songs" or "

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songs" were three

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recognized by

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as honoring their fallen. The Decree 226/1937 of the

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declared the ''

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'' as the

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. It also recognizes as ''cantos nacionales'' the anthems of

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''),

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'') and the

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'') ordering that they should be listened to standing in homage to the Fatherland and the fallen. A decree from 1942 reinstates the songs and orders that, in official events, the playing of the anthem and the songs must be saluted with a "national salute" (

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), or a

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if the event is exclusively military.

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