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Tricolour (flag)
A
tricolour
is a type of
flag
or
banner
design with a
triband
design which originated in the 16th century as a symbol of
republicanism
,
liberty
or indeed
revolution
. The
flags of France
,
Italy
,
Romania
,
Mexico
, and
Ireland
were all first adopted with the formation of an independent
republic
in the period of the
French Revolution
to the
Revolutions of 1848
, with the exception of the Irish tricolour, which dates from 1848 but was not popularised until the
Easter Rising
in 1916 and adopted in 1919.
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