The England that had ... in 1505 ...

[Hansman]

I have learned that when we talk about the past of England, we can write it as the England that had...in 1505...although there is no article in the word England itself.
Is it true? If you do not mind, could you give some examples in which proper nouns like England, Japan, France are written with definite article the?

 

[5jj]

We can define with the definite article any specified aspect of a proper noun. This is not restricted to the past.

The England (that) I grew up in was a very different country from the England (that) we know today.
The Germany of the next decade will not be the powerhouse it was in the 1960s.
The Peter (that) I saw yesterday was a far nicer man than the student I shared a flat with at uni.