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The Nordic cross is a model after the danish flag (the oldest national flag still in use in the world) legends say that the flag fell from the sky in the war of Estland long time ago. Finland, Sweden, Norway, Åland, Faroe Islands, Iceland and other Nordic countries and islands used that model.

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