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British Isles: see Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain.
..... Click the link for more information. ; Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles.
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No references found			Now the people who lived in the British Isles long ago were not English. English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context PETER:--"The Island, the British Isles and Australia. The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context She could not see the world divided into separate compartments of good people and bad people, any more than she could believe so implicitly in the rightness of her own thought as to wish to bring the population of the British Isles into agreement with it. Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context			British Broadcasting Corporation British Broadcasting Corporation BBC British Cameroons British Columbia British Columbia Conservation Foundation British Columbia Day British Columbia Water, Land & Air Ministry British Columbia Wildlife Federation British Columbia, University British Columbia, University of British Commonwealth of Nations British East Africa British East India Company British Empire British engineering system of units British Expeditionary Force British gravitational system of units British Guiana British Honduras British imperial pound British Imperial System of weights and measures British India British Indian Ocean Territory British Interplanetary Society British Invasion British Isles British Library British Library Method British Museum British Museum Library British North America British North America Act British North Borneo British Open British Socialist Party BSP British Somaliland British South Africa Company British Standard British Standard specification British Standards Institute British Standards Institution British Steel Corporation British Telecom British Telecom Research Laboratories British thermal unit British Togoland British Trade Union Congress BTUC British West Africa British West Indies British, The Britomart			British International School Bratislava British International School Budapest British International School Cairo British International School Istanbul British International School of Brussels British International School of Lahore British International School of Moscow British International School of Prague British International Spa Association British International Studies Association British Internet Chess Server British Internet Music and Video Store British Internet Publishers' Alliance British Interplanetary Society British Interplanetary Society British Invasion British Investment Casting Trade Association British Irish Association British Irish Exchange British Irish Rights Watch British Iron and Steel Corporation British Iron and Steel Federation British Iron and Steel Producers Association British Iron and Steel Research Association British Islamic Insurance Holdings British Isles British Isles Backgammon Association British Isles Baton Twirling Association British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa British Isles Flying Fifteen Association British Isles Genealogical Register British Isles Genealogical Research Association British Isles Indoor Bowls Council British Isles Lupus Activity Group British Isles Lupus Assessment Group British Isles Majorette Association British Isles Network of Congenital Anomaly Registers British Isles Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Association British Isles Soccer Tournaments Association British Isles Vital Records Index British Israel World Federation British Israelism British Israelism British Israelite British Italian Law Association British Jewellers' Association British Jewellery Giftware & Finishing Federation British Jewish Music Network British Joint Communications-Electronics Board British Joint Services Mission British Joint Staff Mission

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