Wessex
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wessex-169-6897480
title:
Wessex
text:
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse, though this is considered by some to be a legend. The two main sources for the history of Wessex are the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which sometimes confli
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex
date created:
2001-09-29T15:40:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T10:28:01Z
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