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| leader_title3 = [[Chief Minister of Carrawen|''Mnáihéile'']]
| leader_title3 = [[Chief Minister of Carrawen|''Mnáihéile'']]
| leader_name3 = [[Imogen Caistlean]]
| leader_name3 = [[Imogen Caistlean]]
| leader_title4 = [[Suffete of Carrawen|''Shofeit'']]
| leader_title4 = [[Suffete of Carrawen|''Shóifeit'']]
| leader_name4 = [[George Glass]]
| leader_name4 = [[George Glass]]
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Revision as of 14:29, 11 June 2020

Isle of Carrawen

Í Chnáʿon
Crown dependency
Flag of Isle of Carrawen
Flag
Carrawen (red), with Ireland for reference
Carrawen (red), with Ireland for reference
Sovereign StateUnited Kingdom
Phoenician settlement6th century BCE
Norse-Gaelic hegemony9th century CE
de facto Independence2 July 1266
English control17 May 1756
Capital
and largest city
Ármhaid
Official languagesEnglish
Carrawenian
Religion
largely Roman Catholicism
Demonym(s)Carrawenite
GovernmentParliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy
• Monarch
Elizabeth II
Imogen Caistlean
• Shóifeit
George Glass
Area
• Total
248 km2 (96 sq mi)
Population
• 2010 estimate
27,046
• 2018 census
28,276
• Density
109/km2 (282.3/sq mi)


Carrawen (/kær.ə.wɛn/,Carrawenian: Cnáʿon [kɾˠaːən̪ˠ]), officially the Isle of Carrawen (Carrawenian: Í Chnáʿon [iː xɾˠaːən̪ˠ]), is a self-governing British Crown dependency situated in the Bay of Donegal, about fifty kilometres west of Rossan Point. The head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, holds the title Lady of Carrawen (Ráibe Chnáʿon, masculine equivalent Ráibh Chnáʿon) and is represented by a lieutenant governor. The United Kingdom holds responsibility for the island's defence.

Humans have continuously inhabited the island of Carrawen since the 6th century BC, when Phoenician explorers and traders established a far-flung trading post in order to trade textiles, glass, chased metal goods (including bronze, iron, and gold), and ivory with the indigenous people of Ireland. With the arrival of the Gaels in the Iron Age, the Semitic dialect spoken on the isle came under significant Goidelic influence; by the early middle ages, it had developed into Classical Carrawenian, the ancestor of the modern Carrawenian language.