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The input year will determine which flag is used. For example, any year before 1999 will give "Pre-1999 Flag of Tunisia.svg" for Tunisia (TUN), while any year after 1999 will give "Flag of Tunisia.svg".
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This is another method of determining which flag is used. Some countries, such as Great Britain, used the Olympic flag during the
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This template returns either a country name or the flag associated with that country, depending on the input parameters.
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If the country code is not supplied, or does not exist in the module, an error will be returned:
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Lua error in Module:Country_alias at line 202: Invalid country alias: {{{country}}}.
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Lua error in Module:Country_alias at line 202: Invalid country alias: EXZ.
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Lua error in Module:Country_alias at line 202: Invalid country alias: EXZ.
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Lua error in Module:Country_alias at line 202: Invalid country alias: nil.
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is primarily meant to be used for sporting competitions such as the
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and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's
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There is one required parameter and three optional parameters.
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Here are some examples based on the entry for Italy (ITA)
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