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theme: about england theme: about england done by: nurilloeva madina checked by: ……………. ……………… england is a country that is part of the united kingdom. it shares land borders with wales to its west and scotland to its north. the irish sea lies northwest and the celtic sea to the southwest. it is separated from continental europe by the north sea to the east and the english channel to the south. the country covers five-eighths of the island of great britain, which lies in the north atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the isles of scilly and the isle of wight. the area now called england was first inhabited by modern humans during the upper paleolithic period, but takes its name from the angles, a germanic tribe deriving its name from the anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. england became a unified state …
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veloped as major industrial regions during the 19th century. the kingdom of england – which after 1535 included wales – ceased being a separate sovereign state on 1 may 1707, when the acts of union put into effect the terms agreed in the treaty of union the previous year, resulting in a political union with the kingdom of scotland to create the kingdom of great britain. in 1801, great britain was united with the kingdom of ireland (through another act of union) to become the united kingdom of great britain and ireland. in 1922 the irish free state seceded from the united kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. the name "england" is derived from the old english name england, which means "land of the angles". the angles were one of the germanic tribes that settled in great britain during the …
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e poetic capacity, though its original meaning is the island of britain as a whole. the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as england was that of homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. the oldest proto-human bones discovered in england date from 500,000 years ago.] modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the upper paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years. after the last ice age only large mammals such as mammoths, bison and woolly rhinoceros remained. roughly 11,000 years ago, when the ice sheets began to recede, humans repopulated the area; genetic research suggests they came from the northern part of the iberian peninsula. the sea level was lower than the present day and britain was connected by land bridge to ireland and eurasia. as the seas rose, it was separated from ireland …
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al europe, chiefly the saxons, angles, jutes and frisians who had long raided the coasts of the roman province. these groups then began to settle in increasing numbers over the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, initially in the eastern part of the country. their advance was contained for some decades after the britons' victory at the battle of mount badon, but subsequently resumed, overrunning the fertile lowlands of britain and reducing the area under brittonic control to a series of separate enclaves in the more rugged country to the west by the end of the 6th century. contemporary texts describing this period are extremely scarce, giving rise to its description as a dark age. the nature and progression of the anglo-saxon settlement of britain is consequently subject to considerable disagreement; the emerging consensus is that it occurred on a large scale in the south and east but was …
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ough england. it empties into the bristol channel and is notable for its severn bore (a tidal bore), which can reach 2 metres (6.6 ft) in height. however, the longest river entirely in england is the thames, which is 215 miles (346 km) in length. image5.png image6.png image7.webp image8.webp image9.webp image10.jpg image11.jpg image12.jpg image13.webp image3.png image4.png /docprops/thumbnail.jpeg

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theme: about england theme: about england done by: nurilloeva madina checked by: ……………. ……………… england is a country that is part of the united kingdom. it shares land borders with wales to its west and scotland to its north. the irish sea lies northwest and the celtic sea to the southwest. it is separated from continental europe by the north sea to the east and the english channel to the south. the country covers five-eighths of the island of great britain, which lies in the north atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the isles of scilly and the isle of wight. the area now called england was first inhabited by modern humans during the upper paleolithic period, …

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