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| Subject: Kingdom of East Anglia Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:33 am | |
| The Kingdom of East Anglia, also known as the Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēast Engla rīce, Latin: provincia Orientalium Anglorum), was a small independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom that comprised what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens. The kingdom formed after it was settled by a pagan Germanic-speaking people known as the Angles, who arrived after the end of Roman rule in Britain during the fifth century. East Anglia was bounded to the north and east by the North Sea, and to the west by the Fens, but the precise boundaries between the kingdom and its southern and western neighbours, Essex and Middle Anglia, have not been defined. Until 749 the kings of East Anglia were members of the Wuffingas dynasty, named after the semi-historical Wuffa. During the early 7th century, under Rędwald, East Anglia eme Financial RecruitmentMouse Skill games online | |
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