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- English Unitary Authority (Council Area)
- own names:
– English: Isles of Scilly (Scilly Isles)
– Cornish: Ynysek Syllan
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Flag of the Scilly Isles,
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Source, by:
Wikipedia (DE)
The (unofficial flag) of the Scilly Isles was adoped on 22nd of February in 2002. It shows a horizontally between orange and blue divided bunting with a on it lying down white cross, its ends reach to the border of the flag. In the upper quadrant of the flying end of the flag are situated five white five-pointed stars. They symbolize the archipelago. They are therefore only five stars, because only five of the 140 islands are inhabited. The white cross has its roots probably in the neighbouring Cornwall.
Source: Wikipedia (EN)
Location:
Source: Freeware, University of Texas Libraries, modyfied by: Volker Preuß
Map of the Islands:
Source: Brommes Illustrirter Hand-Atlas 1862
Area: 6,1 square miles
Inhabitants: 2.242 (2018)
Density of Population: 363 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Hugh Town, 1.068 inh.
official Language: English
Time Zone: Greenwich Meantime = CET – 1 h
Source:
Wikipedia (DE)
Mesolithic · first human settlement
85 · to the Roman Empire, province of Britannia
410 · withdrawal of the Roman legions
ca. 500 · to the Saxon Kingdom of Wessex
1016 · to the Kingdom of England
1539 · to the County of Cornwall
1642–1649 · English Civil War, the royalist navy retreats to the Scilly Isles
1707 · 21 Royal Navy ships get lost in the cliffs of the Scilly Isles, four of them become damaged and sink, 1.450 seamen die
1907 · the unique seven-mast schooner in the world, the "Thomas W. Lawson", get lost during a storm in the cliffs of the Scilly Isles and sinks
1975 · the Isles of Scilly become a nature reserve
Source:
Atlas zur Geschichte,
Wikipedia (DE)
In Roman times the islands were called "Silumnus" or "Silimnis", the full Latin name of the islands is "Insulae Silurum". All other names for the island, including those in foreign languages, are derived from this. They are called "Sorlingische Inseln" in German, "Sorlings" in Dutch, and "Sorlingues" in French. In the Cornish language they are called "Ynysek Syllan", which later became simply "Silly". In the English language there was a problem with that, because the adjective "silly" means "daft", "stupid" or "dumb". And so the letter C was added to the name in English name in the 17th century.
Quelle/Source:
Wikipedia (D),
Akademie der Kaufleute, 1755,
Johann Hübners Conversations-Lexicon, 1769
