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- Bailiwick of Jersey
- autonomous and by the british crown adminstrated territory
- one of the Channel Islands (Norman Islands)
- own name in French: Bailliage de Jersey
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since 1981,
National flag,
ratio = 3:5,
Source, by:
Corel Draw 4
since 2010,
Merchant flag,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by:
Wikipedia (DE)
since 2000,
Flag of the government (state flag),
worn by the Fisheries Patrol,
ratio = 1:2,
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Flags of all Nations
Flag of the Lieutenant Governor,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by:
Wikipedia (DE)
to 1981,
National flag,
ratio = 3:5,
Source, by:
Wikipedia (DE)
to 2010,
Merchant flag,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by:
Flags of the World
Jersey uses as national flag a red St. Patrick's Cross on white ground, above that the crowned coat of arms of England. That is also in use in the Gouvernment Ensign (worn by the Fisheries Patrol), the Blue Ensign, however without the crown. Jersey is in this way orientated in the British Ensign-System. This and the using of the "Union Jack" points to the connexions to United Kingdom. United Kingdom introduced a flag system in 1864 in which:
• war ships fly the "White Ensign" (naval flag), a white flag often with an uninterrupted red St. George's-Cross and with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag,
• merchant ships fly a "Red Ensign" (also named "Civil Ensign" => civil flag, the real merchant flag), a red flag with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag, and
• governmental ships fly the "Blue Ensign" (flag for the use by the gouvernment => the actual state flag), a blue flag with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag.
Since 1865, ships of regional or colonial governments, as well of offices and authorities, were allowed to use a Blue Ensign with a badge in the flying end. Merchant ships and seafaring persons from colonies were only permitted to use the Red Ensign with a badge, then also named Civil Ensign, if permission has been given to the respective colony by the British admiralty. This seems to be for Jersey since 2010.
Source:
Wikipedia (EN),
World Statesmen,
Die Welt der Flaggen,
Volker Preuß
Coat of arms of Jersey,
Source, by:
Wikipedia (DE)
The coat of arms of Jersey shows the heraldry of England.
Source:
Volker Preuß
Location:
Source: CIA World Factbook
Map of the country:
Source: CIA World Factbook
Map of the Channel Islands:
Source: Hand-Atlas für die Geschichte des Mittelalters und die neueren Zeit, von Spruner und Menke
in the north Alderney, in the south Jersey, in the west Guernsey, eastern of it Herm and Sark.
Area: 46 square miles
Inhabitants: 102.700 (2015)
Density of Population: 2.224 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Saint Hélier, 33.522 inh. (2011)
official Languages: English, French
other Languages: Norman French
Currencies: 1 Jersey Pound (£) = 100 Pence, 1 Pound Sterling (£) = 100 Pence
Time Zone: Greenwich Meantime = CET – 1 h
Source:
Wikipedia (DE)
ca. 600 B.C. · Celtic settlement
56 B.C. · to the Roman Empire
511 · to the Frankish Empire
843 · to the West Frankish Empire
880 · to the Kingdom of France
933 · to the Duchy of Normandy
1066 · William I. (Duke of the Normandy) gets crowned to the King of England, therewith come the Channel Islands nominally to the English crown
1106 · King Henry I. of England (son of William I.) occupies the Channel Islands, separates them therewith from the Duchy of Normandy, and binds them on England
1373 · fruitless French try for capture
1781 · French occupation
1940–1945 · occupied by the German Empire
Translator of the English text: Joachim Nuthack
Source:
Atlas zur Geschichte,
Wikipedia (DE),
Discovery '97
