Extracts a 4-digit year from the current page title, and returns the name of the century in which that year was.

• {{Century name from title year}}

Mostly used in categorisation.

All parameters are optional

1. The single word "dash" changes the output from "nth century" to "nth-century"
2. A "nomatch" parameter may be used to specify text to be return if the input cannot be processed. Default behaviour is return an empty string if there is no match

• {{Century name from title year}}
  When used on e.g. Category:1798 in Ireland, returns → 18th century
• {{Century name from title year|dash}}
  When used on e.g. Category:1910s in Ireland, returns → 20th-century
• {{Century name from title year}}
  When used on e.g. Category:Bantry, returns →
• {{Century name from title year|nomatch=FAIL}}
  When used on e.g. Category:Ballyjamesduff, returns → FAIL

This template is implemented by using {{Century name from decade or year}} around {{Title year}}.

The same effect can be achieved by using {{Century name from decade or year|{{Title year}}}} ... but this wrapper makes more easily-read markup