A Wealth of Information

Als  Germanen  wird eine Anzahl von ehemaligen  Stämmen  in  Mitteleuropa  und im südlichen  Skandinavien  bezeichnet, deren ethnische Identität in der Forschung traditionell über die  Sprache  bestimmt wird. Kennzeichen der  germanischen Sprachen  sind bestimmte  Lautwandel  gegenüber der rekonstruierten  indogermanischen Ursprache , die als germanische oder  erste Lautverschiebung  zusammengefasst werden. Das von den Germanen bewohnte Siedlungsgebiet wird entsprechend als  Germanien  bezeichnet. Ab der  Zeitenwende  prägte der Kontakt mit den Römern die germanische Welt, wie auch die Entwicklung des Römischen Reiches  sich zunehmend mit der germanischen Welt verband. In der  Spätantike  kam es im Verlauf der Völkerwanderung  zu weitreichenden Zügen mehrerer germanischer Stämme ( gentes ), die teilweise größere Verbände bildeten (siehe  Ethnogenese ), un...

The  history of the United Kingdom  as a unified  sovereign state  began in 1707 with the  political union  of the kingdoms of England  and  Scotland , [1]  into a united kingdom called  Great Britain . On this new state the historian  Simon Schama  said "What began as a hostile merger would end in a full partnership in the most powerful  going concern  in the world... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in  European history ." [2]  A further  Act of Union  in 1800 added the  Kingdom of Ireland  to create the  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . The early years of the unified kingdom of Great Britain were marked by  Jacobite risings  which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at  Culloden  in 1746. Later, in 1763,  victory in the Seven Years War  led to the dominance of the British Empire, which was to be the foremost ...

The  Isle of Man  became separated from Britain and Ireland by about 8000 BC. It appears that colonisation took place by sea sometime before  6500 BC . [1]  The island  has been visited by various  raiders  and  trading peoples  over the years. After being settled by people from Ireland in the first millennium, the Isle of Man was converted to Christianity and then suffered raids by  Vikings  from  Norway . After becoming subject to  suzerainty  to Norway as part of the  Kingdom of Mann and the Isles , the Isle of Man later became a possession of the Scottish and then English crowns. Mesolithic The Isle of Mann effectively became an island around 8,500 years ago when rising sea levels caused by the melting glaciers cut Mesolithic  Britain off from continental Europe for the last time. A land bridge had existed between the Isle of Man and Cumbria prior to this date, although the location and opening of t...

The Irish state  came into being in 1922 as the  Irish Free State , a dominion of the  British Commonwealth , having seceded from the United Kingdom under the  Anglo-Irish Treaty . It comprises 26 of the  island of Ireland 's 32 counties. The  1937 constitution  renamed the state  Ireland . In 1949 it explicitly became a republic, definitively ending its tenuous membership of the British Commonwealth. In 1973 it joined the  European Communities . From its foundation, the Irish Free State was embroiled in a civil war between nationalists supporting the Treaty and opponents who supported a republic. The pro-Treaty side, organised as  Cumann na nGaedheal  emerged victorious from the conflict and won subsequent elections. They formed the government of the state until 1932, when they peacefully handed over power to the anti-Treaty faction in  Fianna Fáil , who defeated them in an election. The Irish state, despite its violent be...

The  history of the United Kingdom  as a unified  sovereign state  began in 1707 with the  political union  of the kingdoms of England  and  Scotland , [1]  into a united kingdom called  Great Britain . On this new state the historian  Simon Schama  said "What began as a hostile merger would end in a full partnership in the most powerful  going concern  in the world... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in  European history ." [2]  A further  Act of Union  in 1800 added the  Kingdom of Ireland  to create the  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . The early years of the unified kingdom of Great Britain were marked by  Jacobite risings  which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at  Culloden  in 1746. Later, in 1763,  victory in the Seven Years War  led to the dominance of the British Empire, which was to be the foremost ...