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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/England
		England is named after the Angles, the largest of a number of Germanic tribes who settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries, and who are believed to have originated in the peninsula of Angeln, in modern-day northern Germany.
		The Norman conquest of England was the conquest of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy), in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings and the subsequent Norman control of England.
		It is bordered to the north by Scotland and to the west by Wales.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/England (9012 words)

	Kingdom of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the reign of Mary I of England, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, Calais was captured by Francis, Duke of Guise on January 7, 1558.
		England was a monarchy for the entirety of its political existence since its creation about 927 up to the 1707 Act of Union, except for the eleven years of English Interregnum (1649 to 1660) that followed the English Civil War.
		The exiled claimant Charles II of England was recalled to the throne in 1660 in the English Restoration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_England (1536 words)

	England - Search View - MSN Encarta
		England is very roughly triangular in shape, with its apex at the mouth of the River Tweed on the north-eastern border with Scotland.
		The northern frontier with Scotland extends from the Solway Firth in the west along the Cheviot Hills to the mouth of the Tweed on the east.
		The soils of England vary from the thin, often acidic, soils of the highlands, such as in the uplands of the Pennines and the moors of the south-west peninsula, to the rich loams of East Anglia.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761572205__1/England.html (11399 words)

	England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		England is named after the Angles (Old English genitive case, "Engla" - hence, Old English "Engla Land"), one of a number of Germanic tribes believed to have originated in Angeln in northern Germany, who settled in England in the 5th and 6th centuries.
		It is bordered to the north by Scotland and to the west by Wales.
		England is both the most populous and the most ethnically diverse nation in the United Kingdom with 50 million inhabitants [3], or 83.7% of the UK's total.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/England (4678 words)

	James I of England - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		James VI of Scotland and I of England (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) was a King who ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously.
		Scotland and England were not, however, united into one country; it was only in 1707 that the Act of Union brought about the merger of these two nations into Great Britain.
		The descendents of James I and VI of England and Scotland.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/James_I_of_England (3902 words)

	Wikinfo \| England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		England (formerly the Kingdom of England up to its merger with Scotland in 1707, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain) is the largest and most densely populated of the nations that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
		England comprises most of the southern half of the island of Great Britain, bordered to the north by Scotland and to the west by Wales.
		According to the 2001 census the population of England was 49,138,831.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=England (396 words)

	England Totally Explained
		England became a unified state during the tenth century and takes its name from the Angles — one of a number of Germanic tribes who settled in the territory during the fifth and sixth centuries.
		England was the world's first parliamentary democracy and consequently many constitutional, governmental and legal innovations that had their origin in England have been widely adopted by other nations.
		England is named after the Angles (Old English genitive case, "Engla" — hence, Old English "Engla Land"), the largest of a number of Germanic tribes who settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries, who are believed to have originated in the peninsula of Angeln, in modern-day northern Germany.
	england.totallyexplained.com (7875 words)

	Flowers and gifts delivery to England.Gifts for christmas, weddings, birthdays, love, Valentine's Day, name days. ...
		England became a unified state during the 10th century and takes its name from the Angles — one of a number of Germanic tribes who settled in the territory during the 5th and 6th centuries.
		The capital city of England is London, which is the largest city in the British Isles and largest city in the European Union.
		England ranks as one of the most influential and far-reaching centres of cultural development in the world.It is the place of origin of both the English language and the Church of England, and was the historic centre of the British Empire.
	www.flowers2england.com /England.asp (598 words)

	A Brief History of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sometimes overlooked when discussing the reasons for Scotland's acquiescence in the union of the two nations, was the terrible beating taken by that unfortunate nation in the Darien affair.
		Scotland kept its legal system and the Presbyterian Kirk, but gave up its Parliament in exchange for 45 seats in the House of Commons and 16 seats in the House of Lords.
		In Scotland, as preparation for what was hoped to be a general insurrection, John Erksine, Earl of Mar, led a premature rising.
	www.peternwilliams.com /scot8.html (1848 words)

	Population Of England Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		to the 2001 census the population of England was 49,138,831...
		The prison population in England and Wales in October 2003 was 74,162, an increase of 2% on...
		The population of England in 2003 was 49,855,700.
	www.britishreport.info /population-of-england (2534 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Scotland, Church of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF [Scotland, Church of] the established national church of Scotland, Presbyterian (see Presbyterianism) in form.
		But under James VI (from 1603, James I of England) and the other Stuart rulers who followed, periods of restored episcopacy interrupted the progress of the new organization and were accompanied by confusion and protest.
		In 1689, with William and Mary on the throne of England, religious liberty was secured, and the Act of Settlement (1690) ensured the establishment of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/ScotChrch.asp (712 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1801 Act of Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Under the terms of the merger, Ireland continued to have over 100 MPs representing it in the united parliament, meeting in the Palace of Westminster.
		Known as the Union Flag or the Union Jack, it combines the flags of England and Scotland with St. Patrick's flag from Ireland.
		The Blue background, on which St. Andrew's Saltire (in the shape of a white 'x') appears, represents Scotland, while the diagonal red 'x' which overlays the white x' on the blue background of Scotland, is known as 'St. Patrick's Cross' and represents Ireland.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1801_Act_of_Union (275 words)

	Scottish History - Treaty of Union, 1707
		England is only one of the constituent states of the United Kingdom.
		Since 1603, when James VI of Scotland also became King of England, on the death of Elizabeth I of England, the monarch had been jointly King or Queen of Scotland and England despite the fact that both were still independent countries with their own parliaments.
		Scotland was an independent country until 1707 when the English parliament, using a mixture of quite open flmail and less open bribery, persuaded a powerful group of Scottish aristocrats to vote for the union of the English and Scottish parliaments.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/lennich/1707.htm (918 words)

	History of England, Age of Empire
		England's own era of exploration, initiated by the Cabots, was expanded by the journeys of Hugh Willoughby to seek a Northeast Passage to China and the spice trade.
		London was afraid that unless a formal, political union with Scotland was firmly in place, as distinct from the existing dynastic union (which had been established with the accession of the Stuart James VI of Scotland as James I of England in 1603), the country might choose James Edward Stuart, Anne's exiled Catholic half-brother.
		In this period of rapid Anglicization of Scotland and the acceptance, through the Union, of the political and economic situation that prevailed in Protestant England, the Stuarts were not yet finished.
	www.britannia.com /history/naremphist2.html (2987 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - England
		The capital, largest city, and chief port of England is London, with a population (1995 estimate) of 7,007,100.
		The total area of England is 130,423 sq km (50,356 sq mi), equivalent to 57 per cent of the area of Great Britain and 54 per cent of the area of the United Kingdom.
		BNatural Resources The soils of England vary from the thin, often acidic, soils of the highlands, such as in the uplands of the Pennines and the moors of the south-west peninsula, to the rich loams of East Anglia.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A471638 (11463 words)

	1707 Act of Union
		The Acts of Union were twin Acts of Parliament passed in 1707 (going into effect on 26 March) in the Scottish and the English Parliaments.
		to create a new Kingdom of Great Britain (though the name was used on occasion since 1604 to refer to the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland, which since 1603 had a shared monarch, when speaking of the kingdoms together);
		The Kingdom of Britain merged with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/17/1707_Act_of_Union.html (223 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		England is both the most populous and the most ethnically diverse nation in the United Kingdom with 50 million inhabitants http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=6, or 83.7% of the UK's total.
		This reflects a more subtle form of patriotism in England - St George's Day, the country's national holiday, is barely celebrated http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4476533.stm - and there is an apathy to the nation outside the sporting arena.
		England contains more UEFA grade A stadiums than any other, and is home to some of the sport's top clubs such as {{fcLiverpool}}, {{fcChelsea}}, {{fcArsenal}}, and {{fcManchester United}}.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/England (4593 words)

	Halifax Bank Of Scotland, Halifax Bank Of Scotland resources
		In 1707, the Scottish and English Parliaments signed the Treaty of Union, which was deeply unpopular in Scotland, as it had been negotiating from a position of economic weakness and suffering from English tariffs.
		Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic and sometimes known also as Caledonia) is a country or nation and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom.
		Scotland has a land boundary with England on the island of Great Britain and is otherwise bounded by seas and oceans.
	www.scotlandz.co.uk /HalifaxBankOfScotland (1688 words)

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