It is the largest country within the United Kingdom both by landmass and population, has taken a pivitol role in the creation of the UK, and its capital London also happens to be the capital of the UK.
It is perhaps understandable then that England is often although incorrectly used as a term to describe the whole of the UK. So there you have it! Great Britain — an island situated off the north west coast of Europe. British Isles — a collection of over 6, islands, of which Great Britain is the largest. England — a country within the UK. An introduction to the British peerage, which has evolved over the centuries into the five ranks that exist today: duke….
If more people recognize this and would relegate it to the past where it belongs we could all get along a lot better. This goes for everywhere, not just the UK.
England does not have a devolved government. Later, as part of a peace treaty, England kept part of Ireland Northern Ireland , and gave part of Ireland their independence back the Independent Republic of Ireland. Good article — funny and informative, yet I still find myself just as confused about it as before. I do not have a chip on my shoulder against those countries who fought against England in World war 1 and 2. I would like to correct a statement made here about devolved powers from Westminster to Scotland.
A very important fact to keep in mind. I also found the article interesting, many thanks. But some confusion remains: 1. What is the definition of a country? I mean, nobody refers to Texas or Bavaria as a country, so why are Wales and England countries? The thirteen colonies that the original United States comprised were just that, colonies.
They were part of the British Empire. I imagine when the likes of Texas joined the union, it did so on an equal footing with each individual state, not with the whole agglomeration of them, and was therefore accorded the same political status. The United Kingdom, on the other hand, represents the union of distinct political entities, and though the uniting was often done against a background of war, coercion and subjugation, it was nevertheless the process of two autonomous, previously-established countries or nations.
The Channel Islands are called crown dependencies, which is to say that they are self-governing and not part of the United Kingdom. Eddie, did you pick EU off the top of your head? What does that stand for, for you. And i my self found the article very informative, thank you.
Bavarians talk about Bavaria as a Country, because it once was. Nobody talks about Texas as a county because it never was. This is not correct, though some revisionists might claim it was in principle. Texans, who consisted of Hispanics Tejanos , immigrants from America, Germans, and other ethnic groups fought for independence from Mexico and people from all these groups died fighting for it and formed a republic.
This republic had strong cultural ties to the US but was not a part if it when it won its independence. It subsequently was decided by the residents of Texas to annex this republic to the US although not all residents wanted this and there is still a strongly independent faction in Texas to this day that is always pushing some secession movement or other. Texas was once, though briefly, completely independent. Many Texans would like to see it be again some day. Nation and country are general considered synonyms and used as such.
Wales and England are countries because the Welsh and English people are associate with their respective areas, but are not sovereign states. The UK is a multi-country sovereign state. Cornwall is another country of the UK.
Which the UK has been point out as suppressing that fact by the EU. Texas and Bavaria were sovereign states not countries. Bavaria was a stem duchy of Germany, becoming independent, but the people were and are Germans for the most part. And in Ireland we speak English now, so we call it Ireland. You sound really mature and the way you write and spell remind me exactly of the stereotypes that Texans have told me not to believe.
I guess they apply to some people. This articul is still rather confusing, I supposed if states or countries are United, they automatically becomes one, and so should be recognised as a nation. Not a chance. Think of it more as the European Union, which is they way the UK is headed, thank fuck. Millions of people would much prefer to be known by the country they are from rather than British.
Plenty Scots, Irish, Welsh and probably a few English most likely those from the North despise the Union and would like it to take a long walk of a short pier. The vote was in favour of maintaining the Union and so it was. Try not to make it sound like England took it away from you.
It is indeed. Britain and Great Britain are the same thing. They both mean the island which England, Wales and Scotland are found. No that is wrong. There is no Britain, there is just Great Britain. This signifies the island that contains England, Scotland and Wales. Stantz: Ah, I see the confusion. I got what you meant pretty clear. The people correcting you are just Nationalists of one of the three countries of Britain looking to be offended.
Is waels state or province or another name. In bygone days England had the strongest army and controlled the rest. The favoured those that showed them loyalty. Wales is neither a state, nor a province, it is, as you term it. The area now known as Wales was the last bastion of Celtic Britons after the Romans departed and the Anglo Saxons began to take over. The area had a number of Kingdoms which did not last and never succeeded in combining into a single Welsh kingdom.
So, Wales was a principality. Could someone anwser this quick question…on my daughters Collins map of the world…it states well I assume every country in the world,showing individual maps,capital,currency etc…but misses out Scotland,Wales,England…putting United Kingdom and London as capital..
Is this normal in a world map…to miss the individual countries in favour of putting UK…I feel you should include both. The map will show each Nation State in the world. England, Scotland, Wales and N. Therefore it will show as The UK. Ireland are countries and Europe is the continent containing these countries so then what is Great Britain and the United Kingdom?
In terms of the terminology associated with land masses. Complete confusion appears to be the current state of affairs here. The reason that Great Britain, which was the term formally adopted by Charles 1st, has maintained its independent country identities, is that it has never been overrun and absorbed by another invading country, unlike many of the old European countries.
Scotland and England were in a fairly constant state of war but generally it as not Scotland v England, it was protestant v catholic. In the end, James V1 of Scotland was invited to take the throne of England, thereby combining the two countries under one ruler — not by conquest, but by recognition of the close ancestral relationships. It was a hundred years before the two countries decided to combine their parliaments. Cookie Policy. British life and culture - England, Scotland and Wales Origins of the names.
Britain Britain was the name made popular by the Romans when they came to the British islands. England England used to be known as Engla land , meaning the land of the Angles, people from continental Germany, who began to invade Britain in the late 5th century, along with the Saxons and Jute. Scotland has always retained its own legal system A hundred years later the Act of Union of joined Ireland to ' Great Britain ' and the name " United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland " was first used.
Find out more by visiting our Union Flag pages. William took over the government and gave ownership of many places to knights who had supported him. The invasion also led to French versions of English originals, such as Rievaulx, translated from Ryedale.
But the Norman French did not settle in with the same comfort as the Anglo-Saxons and the Scandinavians, and certainly not in the same numbers. The commoners — made up of Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and remaining Celts — kept speaking English, which was still evolving and came to add many French words. In time, English again became the language of rule.
The court, which had increasingly intermarried with English speakers, resumed speaking English in the 14th Century; parliament returned to it in the 15th Century. Ultimately, the stubbornness of the Anglo-Saxon language conquered in the end. Wet clearings water leas at the west clearing west leah become Westley Waterless? A muddy place slohtre turn to Slaughter Upper and Lower? And so it is that you can, in 60 miles, go from the Celtic hills, through the Anglo-Saxon and old Celtic towns, across the pre-Celtic, Celtic, and Anglo-Saxon rivers, past faint traces of the Romans, cross into Danish territory, and find the French nobility.
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