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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
was established on 1 January 1801 under the terms of the
Acts of Union 1800
, by which the nominally separate kingdoms of
Great Britain
and
Ireland
were united. In 1922, twenty-six of thirty-two
counties of Ireland
seceded to form the
Irish Free State
(later becoming the
Republic of Ireland
) and, to reflect the change in the
United Kingdom
's boundaries, the
Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927
formally amended the name of the
UK Parliament
to the "Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
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