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Flags of the Arab Gulf state of Qatar on sale in Souq Waqif, Doha, January 2010. Enthusiasm for displaying the flag has increased since the introduction, in 2008, of a new National Day, celebrating the unification of the tribes in the 19th Century under Sheikh Qassim.