United Kingdom
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Spain became a powerful and united kingdom for the first time when the monarchs of two of the Christian kingdoms were married in 1479: Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
The Scottish state and society which grew between 1314 and 1707 could not be subsumed within a united kingdom in the way that high medieval Scotland might have been.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2015
That was certainly the hope, and the pledge, of David Cameron, the Prime Minister of what he took to be a freshly united kingdom.
From The New Yorker • May 8, 2015
Programme Manager - South Asia haselour house media ltd. united kingdom.
From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2010
This section is now the county of Bjelovar, and forms part of the united kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various