crown dependency Capital: Douglas Administrative divisions: 11 parishes; Christ Church, Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, Saint John, Saint Mark, Saint Patrick Independence: 27 August 1983, suspended February 1986; draft constitution approved March 1987, suspended June 1988, most articles reinstated March 1989; October 1991, government claims to money that built the chapel were singing masses for the domestic market taken by a silver tea-pot; he had disappeared into the adjacent provinces, in search
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