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Sark

• Sark, with the neighbouring islands of Herm, Alderney, Guernsey and Jethou, constitutes the administrative bailiwick/district of Guernsey, an autonomous and by the British crown-adminstrated territory
• one of the Channel Islands (Norman Islands)
• own name in French: Sercq

Contents

• Flag

• Meaning/Origin of the Flag

• Coat of Arms

• Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms

• Maps

• Numbers and Facts

• History

Flag

since 1906,
Flag of Sark,
ratio = 3:5,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN)

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The flag of the Isle of Sark combines the flag of England (the red St. George's cross on white background) with the flag resp. the coat of arms of Normandy in the upper left staff quadrant. This consists of two golden, striding and sideways looking lions (better leopards) on red ground.

Source: Volker Preuß

Coat of Arms

Coat of arms of Sark,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN)

Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms

The coat of arms of Sark is similiar to that of Normandy and shows two golden, striding and sideways looking lions (better leopards) on red ground.

Source: Volker Preuß

Maps

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.

Numbers and Facts

Area: 1,7 square miles

Inhabitants: 492 (2015)

Density of Population: 277 inh./sq.mi.

official Language: English

other Languages: Sercquiais, Norman French

Currencyen: 1 Guernsey Pound (£) = 100 Pence, 1 Pound Sterling (£) = 100 Pence

Time Zone: Greenwich Meantime = CET – 1 h

Source: Wikipedia (EN)

History

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

1553 · Adrian Crole conquers the island for Emperor Karl (Charles) V. (Emperor of the German Empire)

1565 · Sark becomes a fiefdom of the English crown

1940–1945 · occupied by the German Empire

Source: Atlas zur Geschichte, Wikipedia (DE), Discovery '97