Ireland
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- Names
Republic of Ireland
Ireland
Éire
Irlande
Irland
Irlanda
Ierland
IRL
IE
ISO372
EI00
Saorstát Éireann
Saorstat Eireann
Irish Free State
Eirinn
Irish
- Place Type
- nation
- Description
- The independent sovereign nation of the Republic of Ireland shares the name and history with the island of Ireland. It was ruled by the warring tribal kings of Leinster, Connaught, Munster, Meath and Ulster (much of Ulster is now in Northern Ireland). It was then ruled by England from the 12th century. Many insurrections finally allowed it to gain increasing independence from the United Kingdom over the 16th-20th centuries until full independant nationhood on April 18, 1949. The official languages are Irish Gaelic and English. It is some 70272.78 square kilometers in area, and the 2003 estimated population was 3,968,100.
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- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Bodkin, Report on the Arts in Ireland (1949); Britannica Book of the Year (1990); Britannica Book of the Year (1993); Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-); Columbia Encyclopedia (1975); Engels Woordenboek (1987); Getty Vocabulary Program rules; ISO Country Codes (1996); ISO Handbook (1988); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999); Rand McNally Atlas (1994); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1999)...
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