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- Mercia abstract "The Kingdom of Mercia (Old English: Miercna rīce), usually referred to as Mercia /ˈmɜrsiə, ˈmɜrʃə/, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce, meaning "border people" (see March).The kingdom was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries, in the region now known as the English Midlands. The kingdom's "capital" was the town of Tamworth, which was the seat of the Mercian Kings from at least around AD 584, when King Creoda built a fortress at the town.For 300 years (between AD 600 and 900), having annexed or gained submissions from five of the other six kingdoms of the Heptarchy (East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex), Mercia dominated England south of the River Humber: this period is known as the Mercian Supremacy. The reign of King Offa, who is best remembered for his Dyke which designated the boundary between Mercia and the Welsh kingdoms, is sometimes known as the "Golden Age of Mercia". Nicholas Brooks noted that "the Mercians stand out as by far the most successful of the various early Anglo-Saxon peoples until the later ninth century", and some historians, such as Sir Frank Stenton, believe the unification of England south of the Humber estuary was achieved during the reign of Offa.Mercia was originally a pagan kingdom, but King Peada converted to Christianity around 656, with Christianity firmly established in the kingdom by the late 7th century. The Diocese of Mercia was founded in 656, with the first bishop, Diuma, based at Repton. After only 13 years at Repton, in 669 the fifth bishop, Saint Chad, moved the bishopric to Lichfield, where it has been based ever since. In 691 the Diocese of Mercia became the Diocese of Lichfield. For a brief period between 787 to 799 the diocese was an archbishopric, although it was officially dissolved in 803. The current bishop, Jonathan Gledhill, is the 98th since the diocese was established.At the end of the 9th century, following the invasions of the Vikings and their Great Heathen Army, much of the former Mercian territory was absorbed into the Danelaw. At its height the Danelaw included London, all of East Anglia and most of the North of England.The final Mercian king, Ceolwulf II, died in 879; the kingdom appears to have thereby lost its political independence. Initially it was ruled by a lord or ealdorman under the overlordship of Alfred The Great, who styled himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons". The kingdom had a brief period of independence in the mid-10th century, and again very briefly in 1016 however by this time it was viewed as a province within the Kingdom of England, not an independent kingdom.Mercia is still used as a geographic designation, and the name is used by wide range of organisations, including military units, public, commercial and voluntary bodies.".
- Mercia capital Tamworth,_Staffordshire.
- Mercia dissolutionYear "0918".
- Mercia foundingYear "0527".
- Mercia thumbnail Labarum.svg?width=300.
- Mercia wikiPageExternalLink History_Measham.htm.
- Mercia wikiPageExternalLink hidage.html.
- Mercia wikiPageExternalLink www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk.
- Mercia wikiPageID "38769".
- Mercia wikiPageLength "42487".
- Mercia wikiPageOutDegree "342".
- Mercia wikiPageRevisionID "683806709".
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_The_Great.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_the_Great.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Angles.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Saxon_Christianity.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Saxon_Paganism.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Saxon_paganism.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Saxons.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Archbishop_of_Lichfield.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom).
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Associated_TeleVision.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Associated_Television.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Attributed_arms.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Cirencester.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Ellandun.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Maserfield.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Winwaed.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_the_Trent.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_the_Winwaed.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Bede.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Bedford.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Bedfordshire.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Beorhtwulf_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Beornwulf_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Birmingham.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Birmingham_University.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Bishop_of_Lichfield.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Blaby.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Blazon.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Bram_Stoker.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Bretwalda.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Bristol.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink British_Army.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink British_Museum.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Buckinghamshire.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Burgred.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Burgred_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cadwallon_ap_Cadfan.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cambridgeshire.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Category:918_disestablishments.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Peoples_of_Anglo-Saxon_England.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Regions_of_England.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Category:States_and_territories_established_in_527.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cearl_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cenred_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Central_Independent_Television.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Ceolred_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Ceolwulf_II_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Ceolwulf_I_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Chad_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Charlemagne.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cheshire.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Chester.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Chiltern_Hills.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Chilterns.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Christianity.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Chrysophylax_Dives.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cilternsæte.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Client_state.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cnut.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cnut_the_Great.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Coat_of_arms.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Coenred_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Coenwulf_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Coin.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Council_House,_Birmingham.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Coventry.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Creoda_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cuthred_of_Wessex.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Cynddylan.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Danelaw.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Deganwy.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Deira.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Deira_(kingdom).
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Denmark.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Derby.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Derbyshire.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Diocese_of_Lichfield.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Diocese_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Diuma.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Droitwich.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Droitwich_Spa.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Eadric_Streona.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Ealdorman.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Early_Christianity.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink East_Midlands.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Ecgfrith_of_Mercia.
- Mercia wikiPageWikiLink Edgar_the_Peaceful.