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Heptarchy
Heptarchy Hep"tarch*y, n. [Hepta- + -archy: cf. F.
heptarchie.]
A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven
rulers.
Note: The word is most commonly applied to England, when it
was divided into seven kingdoms; as, the Saxon
heptachy, which consisted of Kent, the South Saxons
(Sussex), West Saxons (Wessex), East Saxons (Essex),
the East Angles, Mercia, and Northumberland.
Meaning of Heptarchy from wikipedia
- The
Heptarchy were the
seven petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon
England that
flourished from the Anglo-Saxon
settlement of
Britain in the 5th
century until...
- 865 the
Great Heathen Army, led by Ivar,
invaded the Anglo-Saxon
Heptarchy. The
Heptarchy was the
collective name for the
seven kingdoms East Anglia, Es****...
-
after Sub-Roman
Britain was
settled by Anglo-Saxons in an era
called the
Heptarchy. It was
centred on the
River Trent and its tributaries, in a
region now...
-
Huntingdon conceived the idea of the
Heptarchy,
which consisted of the
seven prin****l Anglo-Saxon
kingdoms (
Heptarchy literal translation from the Gr****:...
-
Britain in the post-Roman period. They
founded several kingdoms of the
Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England.
Their name,
which derives from the
Anglia Peninsula...
-
years from the mid-7th
century onwards it was the
dominant member of the
Heptarchy and
consequently the most
powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. During...
- /ˈɛsɪks/, was one of the
seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon
Heptarchy. It was
founded in the 6th
century and
covered the
territory later occupied...
-
considered to have been King of Wes****, even
though the
kingdoms of the
Heptarchy had not yet
formed from the
patchwork of
smaller kingdoms in his lifetime...
- Country,
often considered interchangeable with Wes****
Cotswolds Weald Heptarchy,
former kingdom names which did not
become counties have
continued to...
- one of the Anglo-Saxon
kingdoms (one of the
components of the so-called
Heptarchy); in the
tenth century the
increasing power of the
Kingdom of the West...
