Tricolour (flag)
A tricolour () or tricolor () is a type of flag or banner design with a Triband (flag), triband design which originated in the 16th century as a symbol of classical republicanism, republicanism, liberty, or revolution. The Flag of France, flags of France, Flag of Italy, Italy, Flag of Romania, Romania, Flag of Mexico, Mexico, and Flag of Ireland, 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. History The first association of the tricolour with republicanism is the orange-white-blue design of the Prince's Flag (''Prinsenvlag'', predecessor of the flag of the Netherlands, flags of the Netherlands), used from 1579 by William I of Orange-Nassau in the Eighty Years' War, establishing the independence of the Dutch Republic from the Spanish Empir ...
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