 Order of Liberty

The Order of Liberty, or the Order of Freedom (), is a Portuguese honorific civil order that distinguishes relevant services to the cause of democracy and freedom, in the defense of the values of civilization and human dignity.The order was created in 1976, after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 in which the corporatist authoritarian "Estado Novo" regime of António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcello Caetano was deposed.