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488x488px|thumb|The penultimate set of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms was fivefold. The map annotates the names of the peoples of Kingdom of Essex|Essex and Sussex taken into the [[Kingdom of Wessex, which later took in the Kingdom of Kent and became the senior dynasty, and the outlier kingdoms. From Bartholomew's A literary & historical atlas of Europe (1914)]]
The Heptarchy refers to the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that existed in early medieval England, though the map shows a later period when this number had been reduced to five major kingdoms including Wessex, Essex, Sussex, and Kent. The concept matters because it describes a formative period of English history when these separate kingdoms gradually consolidated, with Wessex eventually emerging as the dominant power.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical period
- Has part
- Kingdom of Kent
- Followed by
- Kingdom of England
- Follows
- sub-Roman Britain
- Image
- Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.jpg
- Has parts of class
- realm
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- topic's main category
- Category:Heptarchy
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