Humans have lived on the island since before 6500 BC.\u00a0Gaelic<\/a>\u00a0cultural influence began in the 5th century AD, and the\u00a0Manx language<\/a>, a branch of the\u00a0Goidelic Languages<\/a>, emerged. In 627, King\u00a0Edwin of Northumbria<\/a>\u00a0conquered the Isle of Man along with most of\u00a0Mercia<\/a>. In the 9th century,\u00a0Norsemen<\/a>\u00a0established the\u00a0thalassocratic<\/a>\u00a0Kingdom of the Isles<\/a>, which included the Isle of Man.\u00a0Magnus III<\/a>, King of\u00a0Norway<\/a>\u00a0from 1093 to 1103, reigned as\u00a0King of Mann and the Isles<\/a>\u00a0between 1099 and 1103.<\/p>\n In 1266, the island became part of\u00a0Scotland<\/a>\u00a0under the\u00a0Treaty of Perth<\/a>, after being ruled by Norway. After a period of alternating rule by the Kings of Scotland and\u00a0England<\/a>, the island came under the feudal lordship of the\u00a0English Crown<\/a>\u00a0in 1399. The lordship\u00a0revested<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0British Crown<\/a>\u00a0in 1765, but the island did not become part of the 18th-century\u00a0Kingdom of Great Britain<\/a>, nor of its successors, the\u00a0United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland<\/a>\u00a0and the present-day\u00a0United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland<\/a>. It has always retained its internal self-government.<\/p>\n In 1881, the Isle of Man\u00a0Parliament<\/a>,\u00a0Tynwald<\/a>, became the first national\u00a0legislative body<\/a>\u00a0in the world to give\u00a0women the right to vote<\/a>\u00a0in a general election, although this excluded married women.<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0In 2016,\u00a0UNESCO<\/a>\u00a0awarded the Isle of Man\u00a0biosphere reserve status<\/a>.<\/p>\n Insurance and\u00a0online gambling<\/a>\u00a0each generate 17% of the\u00a0GNP<\/a>, followed by\u00a0information and communications technology<\/a>\u00a0and banking with 9% each.<\/sup>\u00a0Internationally, the Isle of Man is known for the\u00a0TT<\/a>\u00a0Motorcycle Races,<\/sup>\u00a0and the\u00a0Manx Cat<\/a>, a breed with short or no tails.<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0Manx<\/a>\u00a0are a\u00a0Celtic Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n The island was cut off from the surrounding islands around 8000 BC as sea levels rose following the end of the ice age. Humans colonized it by travelling by sea some time before 6500\u00a0BC<\/a>.<\/sup>\u00a0The first occupants were\u00a0hunter-gatherers<\/a> and fishermen. Examples of their tools are kept at the Manx Museum.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Neolithic Period<\/a>\u00a0marked the beginning of farming, and the people began to build\u00a0megalithic monuments<\/a>, such as\u00a0Cashtal yn Ard<\/a>\u00a0near\u00a0Maughold<\/a>,\u00a0King Orry’s Grave<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Laxey<\/a>, Meayll Circle near\u00a0Cregneash<\/a>, and Ballaharra Stones at\u00a0St John’s<\/a>. There were also the local\u00a0Ronaldsway<\/a> and Bann cultures.<\/p>\n During the\u00a0Bronze Age<\/a>, the size of burial mounds decreased. The people put bodies into stone-lined graves with ornamental containers. The Bronze Age burial mounds survived as long-lasting markers around the countryside.<\/p>\n The ancient Romans knew of the island and called it\u00a0Insula Manavia<\/i>.<\/i>\u00a0Scholars have not determined whether they conquered the island.<\/p>\n Around the 5th century AD, large-scale migration from Ireland precipitated a process of\u00a0Gaelicisation<\/a>, evidenced by\u00a0Ogham<\/a>\u00a0inscriptions, and the\u00a0Manx language<\/a>\u00a0developed. It is a\u00a0Goidelic language<\/a>\u00a0closely related to\u00a0Irish<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Scottish Gaelic<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the 7th century, Mann came under\u00a0Anglo-Saxon<\/a>\u00a0control, specifically King\u00a0Edwin<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Northumbria<\/a>, from which he launched raids into\u00a0Ireland<\/a>. How much influence the Northumbrians exerted on Mann is unknown, but very few place names on Mann are of\u00a0Old English<\/a> origin.<\/p>\n Vikings<\/a>\u00a0arrived at the end of the 8th century. They established\u00a0Tynwald<\/a>\u00a0and introduced many land divisions that still exist. In 1266\u00a0King Magnus VI of Norway<\/a>\u00a0ceded the islands to Scotland in the Treaty of Perth. But Scotland’s rule over Mann did not become firmly established until 1275, when the Manx were defeated in the\u00a0Battle of Ronaldsway<\/a>, near\u00a0Castletown<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 1290 King\u00a0Edward I of England<\/a>\u00a0sent\u00a0Walter de Huntercombe<\/a>\u00a0to take possession of Mann. It remained in English hands until 1313, when\u00a0Robert Bruce<\/a>\u00a0took it after besieging\u00a0Castle Rushen<\/a>\u00a0for five weeks. In 1314, it was retaken for the English by John Bacach of Argyll. In 1317, it was retaken for the Scots by\u00a0Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray<\/a>\u00a0and Lord of the Isle of Man. It was held by the Scots until 1333. For some years thereafter control passed back and forth between the kingdoms until the English took it for the final time in 1346.<\/sup>\u00a0The English Crown delegated its rule of the island to a series of lords and magnates.\u00a0Tynwald<\/a>\u00a0passed laws concerning the government of the island in all respects and had control over its finances, but was subject to the approval of the\u00a0Lord of Mann<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 1866, the Isle of Man obtained limited home rule, with partly democratic elections to the\u00a0House of Keys<\/a>, but the\u00a0Legislative Council<\/a>\u00a0was appointed by the Crown. Since then, democratic government has been gradually extended.<\/p>\n The Isle of Man has designated more than 250 historic sites as\u00a0registered buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Isle of Man is an island located in the middle of the northern\u00a0Irish Sea<\/a>, almost equidistant from\u00a0England<\/a>\u00a0to the east,\u00a0Northern Ireland<\/a>\u00a0to the west, and\u00a0Scotland<\/a>\u00a0(closest) to the north; while\u00a0Wales<\/a>\u00a0to the south is almost the distance of the\u00a0Republic of Ireland<\/a> to the southwest. It is 52 kilometers (32 mi) long and, at its widest point, 22 kilometers (14 mi) wide. It has an area of around 572 square kilometers (221 sq mi).<\/sup>\u00a0Besides the island of Mann itself, the political unit of the Isle of Man includes some nearby small islands: the seasonally inhabited\u00a0Calf of Man<\/a>,<\/sup>\u00a0Chicken Rock<\/a>\u00a0(on which stands an unmanned lighthouse),\u00a0St Patrick’s Isle<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0St Michael’s Isle<\/a>. The last two of these are connected to the main island by permanent roads\/causeways.<\/p>\n Ranges of hills in the north and south are separated by a central valley. The northern plain, by contrast, is relatively flat, consisting mainly of deposits from glacial advances from western Scotland during colder times. There are more recently deposited\u00a0shingle beaches<\/a>\u00a0at the northernmost point, the\u00a0Point of Ayre<\/a>. The island has one mountain higher than 600 meters (2,000 ft),\u00a0Snaefell<\/a>, with a height of 620 metres (2,034\u00a0ft).<\/sup>\u00a0According to an old saying, from the summit one can see six kingdoms: those of Mann, Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, and\u00a0Heaven<\/a>.<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0Some versions add a seventh kingdom, that of the sea, or\u00a0Neptune<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Isle of Man\u00a0Department for Enterprise<\/a>\u00a0manages the diversified economy in 12 key sectors.<\/sup>\u00a0The largest sectors by GNP are insurance and\u00a0eGambling<\/a>\u00a0with 17% of GNP each, followed by\u00a0ICT<\/a>\u00a0and banking with 9% each. The 2016 census lists 41,636 total employed.<\/sup>\u00a0The largest sectors by employment are “medical and health”, “financial and business services”, construction, retail and public administration.<\/sup>\u00a0Manufacturing, focused on aerospace and the food and drink industry,<\/sup>\u00a0employs almost 2000 workers and contributes about 5% of\u00a0gross domestic product<\/a>\u00a0(GDP). The sector provides laser optics, industrial diamonds, electronics, plastics and aerospace precision engineering. Tourism, agriculture, and fishing, once the mainstays of the economy, now make very little contributions to the island’s GDP.<\/p>\n The unemployment rate is around 5%.<\/p>\n The Isle of Man is a low-tax economy with no\u00a0capital gains tax<\/a>,\u00a0wealth tax<\/a>,\u00a0stamp duty<\/a>, or\u00a0inheritance tax<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and a top rate of\u00a0income tax<\/a>\u00a0of 20%.<\/sup>\u00a0A tax cap is in force: the maximum amount of tax payable by an individual is \u00a3200,000 or \u00a3400,000 for couples if they choose to have their incomes jointly assessed. Personal income is assessed and taxed on a total worldwide income basis rather than a\u00a0remittance<\/a>\u00a0basis. This means that all income earned throughout the world is assessable for Manx tax rather than only income earned in or brought into the island.<\/p>\n The standard rate of\u00a0corporation tax<\/a> for residents and non-residents is 0%. Retail business profits above \u00a3500,000 and banking business income are taxed at 10%, and rental (or other) income from land and buildings situated on the Isle of Man is taxed at 20%.<\/p>\n Trade takes place mostly with the United Kingdom. The island is in customs union with the UK, and related revenues are pooled and shared under the\u00a0Common Purse Agreement<\/a>. This means that the Isle of Man cannot have the lower excise revenues on alcohol and other goods that are enjoyed in the\u00a0Channel Islands<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Manx government\u00a0promotes island locations for making films<\/a>\u00a0by offering financial support. Since 1995, over 100 films have been made on the island.<\/sup>\u00a0Most recently the island has taken a much wider strategy to attract the general digital media industry in film, television, video and\u00a0eSports<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Isle of Man Government Lottery operated from 1986 to 1997. Since 2 December 1999 the island has participated in the\u00a0United Kingdom National Lottery<\/a>.<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0The island is the only jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom where it is possible to play the UK National Lottery.<\/sup>\u00a0Since 2010 it has also been possible for projects in the Isle of Man to receive national lottery\u00a0Good Causes Funding<\/a>.<\/sup>\u00a0The good causes funding is distributed by the Manx Lottery Trust.<\/sup>\u00a0Tynwald<\/a>\u00a0receives the 12% lottery duty for tickets sold in the island.<\/p>\n Tourist numbers peaked in the first half of the 20th century, prior to the boom in cheap travel to Southern Europe that also saw the decline of tourism in many similar English seaside resorts. The Isle of Man tourism board has recently invested in “Dark Sky Discovery” sites to diversify its tourism industry. It is expected that dark skies will generally be nominated by the public across the UK. However, the Isle of Man tourism board tasked someone from their team to nominate 27 places on the island as a civil task. This cluster of the highest quality “Milky Way” sites<\/sup> is now well promoted within the island. This government push has effectively given the island a head start in the number of recognized Dark Sky sites. However, this has created a distorted view when compared to the UK where this is not promoted on a national scale. There, Dark Sky sites are expected to be nominated over time by the public across a full range of town, city and countryside locations rather than en masse<\/i> by government departments.<\/p>\n In 2017 an office of\u00a0The International Stock Exchange<\/a>\u00a0was opened to provide a boost for the island’s finance industry.<\/p>\n There is a comprehensive bus network, operated by the government-owned bus operator\u00a0Bus Vannin<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Isle of Man Sea Terminal<\/a>\u00a0in Douglas has regular ferries to and from\u00a0Heysham<\/a>\u00a0and to and from\u00a0Liverpool<\/a>, with a more restricted timetable operating in winter. The two vessels are\u00a0The Manannan<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Ben My Chree<\/i>\u00a0which will soon be replaced with a new vessel arriving in 2022 made by\u00a0Hyundai<\/a>. It has been named The Manxman by the public mid 2020. There are also limited summer-only services to and from\u00a0Belfast<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dublin<\/a>. The Dublin route also operates at Christmas. At the time of the\u00a0Isle of Man TT<\/a>\u00a0a limited number of sailings operate to and from\u00a0Larne<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Northern Ireland<\/a>. All ferries are operated by the\u00a0Isle of Man Steam Packet Company<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n The only commercial airport on the island is the\u00a0Isle of Man Airport<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Ronaldsway<\/a>. There are direct scheduled and chartered flights to numerous airports in the United Kingdom and Ireland.<\/sup><\/p>\n The island has a total of 688 miles (1,107\u00a0km)<\/sup>\u00a0of public roads, all of which are paved. There is no overriding national speed limit; only local speed limits are set, and some roads have no speed limit. Rules about reckless driving and most other driving regulations are enforced in a similar way to the UK.<\/sup> There is a requirement for regular vehicle examinations for some vehicles (similar to the MoT test in the UK).<\/p>\n The island used to have an extensive\u00a0narrow-gauge railway<\/a>\u00a0system, both steam-operated and electric, but the majority of the steam railway tracks were taken out of service many years ago, and the track removed. As of 2019, there is a\u00a0steam railway<\/a>\u00a0between Douglas and Port Erin, an\u00a0electric railway<\/a>\u00a0between Douglas and Ramsey and an\u00a0electric mountain railway<\/a>\u00a0which climbs\u00a0Snaefell<\/a>.<\/p>\n One of the oldest operating horse tram services is located on the sea front in the capital,\u00a0Douglas<\/a>. It was founded in 1876.<\/p>\n The\u00a0flag of the\u00a0Isle of Man<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0flag of Mann is a\u00a0triskelion<\/a>, composed of three armored legs with golden spurs, upon a red background. It has been the official flag of Mann since 1 December 1932 and is based on the Manx coat of arms<\/a>, which dates back to the 13th century.<\/p>\n The three legs are known in Manx as\u00a0ny tree cassyn<\/i><\/i>\u00a0(“the three legs”). The triskelion is an ancient symbol, used by the\u00a0Mycenaeans<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Lycians<\/a>.<\/p>\n Until 1265 the Isle of Man formed part of the\u00a0Kingdom of the Isles<\/a>, ruled by the\u00a0Crovan dynasty<\/a>. The last member of that ruling family died in 1265 without a legitimate heir, when the Isle passed into the possession of\u00a0Alexander III, King of Scotland<\/a>\u00a0(d.1286). In 1266 sovereignty of the Isle of Man and the\u00a0Hebrides<\/a>\u00a0was formally transferred from the\u00a0King of Norway<\/a>\u00a0to King\u00a0Alexander III of Scotland<\/a>\u00a0(1241\u20131286). The heraldic era in England and Scotland started in about 1215, slightly earlier in Western Europe, and members of the Crovan dynasty are known to have borne ships and\u00a0lions<\/a>\u00a0on their\u00a0seals<\/a>, and no evidence exists of their use of the\u00a0triskeles<\/i>. It is possible that the origin of the Manx\u00a0triskeles<\/i>\u00a0is a knotted device depicted on the coinage of their 10th-century\u00a0Viking<\/a>\u00a0predecessors on the Isle.<\/sup>\u00a0However, that device is dissimilar to the Manx\u00a0triskeles<\/i>, and the nearly 300-year gap between its use and the appearance of the Manx\u00a0triskeles<\/i> suggests that there is no connection between the symbols.<\/p>\n In 1250 the Germanic\u00a0Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor<\/a>, died after having ruled Sicily for 52 years.\u00a0He was\u00a0King of Sicily<\/a>\u00a0from 1198,\u00a0King of Germany<\/a>\u00a0from 1212,\u00a0King of Italy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Holy Roman Emperor<\/a>\u00a0from 1220 and\u00a0King of Jerusalem<\/a>\u00a0from 1225. His mother\u00a0Constance<\/a>\u00a0was Queen of Sicily and his father was\u00a0Henry VI<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0House of Hohenstaufen<\/a>. Although there is no evidence that the\u00a0triskeles<\/i>\u00a0was used in Sicily in the 13th century, there is architectural evidence of its use in\u00a0Austria<\/a> at that time, almost certainly relating to a personal emblem of Frederick, and almost certainly stemming from his Sicilian connection.<\/p>\n Four years after Frederick’s death the pope invested the Sicilian kingship in\u00a0Edmund Crouchback<\/a>\u00a0(died 1296), the second surviving son of\u00a0Henry III, King of England<\/a>\u00a0(died 1272),<\/sup>\u00a0and for about ten years afterwards Edmund was styled “King of Sicily<\/a>“.<\/sup>\u00a0Henry invested considerable political capital in his son’s new position, and in his efforts to raise funds from taxation to support the dignity of that kingship made himself extremely unpopular with his English nobles, who eventually rebelled.<\/p>\n The wife of Alexander III, King of Scotland, was\u00a0Margaret of England<\/a>\u00a0(died 1275), a daughter of King Henry III.<\/sup>\u00a0This familial connection between the English and Scottish royal families might account for the introduction of the\u00a0triskeles<\/i> as a symbol of the Isle of Man. If so, it may well have been adopted as a means to reinforce the regime change on the island.<\/p>\n Following\u00a0English domination of the isle in 1346<\/a>, the triskelion was retained and endured as a symbol of the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n By the mid-19th century the Manx flag began appearing on merchant ships from the Isle of Man.<\/sup>\u00a0However, such usage of the flag was not sanctioned by the\u00a0Board of Trade<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Admiralty<\/a>\u00a0under Section 105 of the\u00a01854 Merchant Shipping Act<\/a> in favor of the\u00a0Red Ensign<\/a>.<\/sup><\/sup> This decision was reversed by the Admiralty on 4 March 1889 and Manx merchant ships were permitted to fly the Flag of the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n The flag was officially adopted between 1928 and 1932, however sources differ.<\/sup><\/p>\n In July 1968 steps were taken to standardize the flag.<\/sup>\u00a0The feet of the\u00a0triskelion<\/a>\u00a0were all to be facing in a clockwise direction and was to be balanced with one leg directly facing to the bottom.<\/sup>\u00a0On 27 August 1971 a\u00a0civil ensign<\/a> for the Isle of Man was approved by royal proclamation. This flag featured a red field with the Union Jack in the canton. The triskelion of Mann is emblazoned off center towards the fly. Another Manx flag in use is the flag of\u00a0Tynwald<\/a>, the legislature of the Isle of Man, which has flown outside the Legislative Buildings since 1971.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The flag of the Isle of Man or flag of Mann (Manx: brattagh Vannin) is a triskelion, composed of three armored legs with golden spurs, upon a red background. It has been the official flag of Mann since 1 December 1932 and is based on the Manx coat of arms, which dates back to the 13th century.<\/p>\n The three legs are known in Manx as ny tree cassyn (“the three legs”). 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<\/a>History:<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Geography:<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Economy:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Transportation:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Flag of the Isle of Man:<\/h2>\n
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