History Of United Kingdom

Stonehenge and other examples of prehistoric culture are all that remain of the first inhabitants of Britain. Celtic peoples followed. 1 Roman invasion century B.C. Britain has come into contact with the European continent. When the Roman legions back to 5 century AD, Britain fell easy prey for the invading hordes of angles, and the jute from Scandinavia and the Benelux countries. The invasion had little effect on the Celtic people in Wales and Scotland. Seven large Anglo-Saxon kingdom and the British were in Wales and Scotland. Only 10 th century, the country is finally taking the Kings of Wessex. After the death of Edward the Confessor (1066), the dispute over succession arose, and William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England, defeated the Saxon king Harold II at the Battle of Hastings (1066). The Norman conquest was Norman French law and feudalism.

United Kingdom Travel Guide

United Kingdom, consisting of Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) and Northern Ireland, is twice as high as in New York State. England, in the southeast of the British Isles, of Scotland is on the north side of the granite Cheviot Hills; they Pennine chain of uplands extends south through the center of England, reaching its highest point in the Lake District in the northwest. West along the border with Wales, a land of hills and valleys, the Cambrian Mountains, while the Cotswolds, the hills in Gloucestershire, to the surrounding Shire.

Large rivers that empty into the North Sea are the Thames, Humber, Tees and Tyne. In the west of the Severn and Wye, which empty into the Bristol Channel and are navigable, and the Mersey and Ribble.

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