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By the start of the 14th century the structure of most English towns had changed considerably since the Domesday survey. A number of towns were granted market status and had grown around local trades. [11] Also notable is the reduction in importance of Winchester, the Anglo-Saxon capital city of Wessex.
The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...
1921 establishments in the British Empire (18 C, 1 P) A. 1921 in Australia (7 C, 7 P) B. 1921 in British Guiana (1 P) 1921 in British India (2 C, 3 P) 1921 in British ...
Map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century" by some historians, [113] around 10 million sq mi (26 million km 2) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. [114]
1921 in the British Empire (25 C, 3 P) 1921 in the Crown Dependencies (2 C) / 1921 disestablishments in the United Kingdom (5 C, 17 P) 1921 establishments in the ...
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City status is granted by the monarch on advice from government ministers, which since 2022 has been Charles III. British overseas cities on British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies are remaining key places of the former far-reaching British Empire, which was a vast holding of many regions, countries, protectorates and territories.
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.