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England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century. The union between England and Wales, that begun in 1284 with the Statute of Rhuddlan, was not formalised until 1536 with an Act of
Union. In another Act of Union in 1707, England and Scotland
agreed to permanently join as Great Britain.
The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was
implemented in 1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland. The Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalised a partition
of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom as
Northern Ireland and the current name of the country, the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in 1927 the UK.
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