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Kingdom of Sussex. The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex ( / ˈsʌsɪks /; from Middle English: Suth-sæxe, in turn from Old English: Suth-Seaxe or Sūþseaxna rīce, meaning " (land or people of/Kingdom of) the South Saxons"), was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England. [6] .
Sussex, (from Old English Suð Seaxe, South Saxons), one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England. It ultimately coincided in area with the modern counties of East Sussex and West Sussex, although Hastings in East Sussex appears to have been sometimes separate.
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May 15, 2024 · Sussex, historic county of southeastern England, covering a coastal area along the English Channel south of London. For administrative purposes, Sussex is divided into the administrative counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and the unitary authority of Brighton and Hove. A ridge of chalk hills,
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Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county. It includes the ceremonial counties of East Sussex and West Sussex.
Map of Britain around 800 AD showing the kingdom of Sussex. The foundation of the Kingdom of Sussex is recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year AD 477, saying that Ælle arrived at a place called Cymenshore in three ships with his three sons and killed or put to flight the local inhabitants.
The seven kingdoms were Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex. Early Anglo-Saxon history. Anglo-Saxon England. The central theme of Anglo-Saxon history in England is the process by which a number of diverse Germanic peoples came to form the centralized kingdom which the Normans inherited from their English predecessors.
May 29, 2018 · Sussex, kingdom of. views 1,904,889 updated May 29 2018. Sussex, kingdom of. Sussex was ruled by its own kings from the time of Ælle ( c. 477), who is said by Bede to have been the first overlord ( bretwalda) of the southern English, to the end of the 8th cent., but for most of that period the kings (sometimes referred to not under a royal ...
