- United Kingdom | History, Population, Map, Flag, Capital, Facts . . .
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- What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom . . .
The names Great Britain and United Kingdom are often used interchangeably However, they are not actually synonymous The reason for the two names, and the difference between them, has to do with the expansive history of the British Isles
- United Kingdom - Economy, Trade, Manufacturing | Britannica
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- List of British Monarchs | Kings and Queens of Britain | Britannica
Sovereigns of Britain; Kings of Wessex (West Saxons) ; name dynasty or house reign ; 1 Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England : 2 James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603 Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed
- British nobility | Ranks, Titles, Hierarchy, In Order, Honorifics . . .
Historic UK - The British Peerage; GlobalSecurity org - The Fortunes of the Nobility; Academia - `Nobility', A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland, c 500-c 1100, ed Pauline Stafford (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp 414-31
- England - Culture, Traditions, Heritage | Britannica
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- Pound sterling | History Denominations | Britannica Money
pound sterling, the basic monetary unit of Great Britain, divided (since 1971) decimally into 100 new pence The term is derived from the fact that, about 775, silver coins known as “sterlings” were issued in the Saxon kingdoms, 240 of them being minted from a pound of silver, the weight of which was probably about equal to the later troy pound Hence, large payments came to be reckoned
- History, Members, Purpose, Countries, Facts - Britannica
Commonwealth, a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as symbolic head of their association Establishment The Commonwealth was an evolutionary outgrowth of the British Empire
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