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East Anglia

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East Anglia
A region and Anglo-Saxon kingdom of eastern England. Settled by Angles in the late fifth century a.d., it was a powerful kingdom by the late sixth century but became a dependency of Mercia for long periods after 650. The Danes controlled the region from 886 to 917, after which it became an English earldom.
East Anglia
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1. (Placename) a region of E England south of the Wash: consists of Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire
2. (Historical Terms) an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk in the 6th century ad; became a dependency of Mercia in the 8th century
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Noun1.East Anglia - a region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom
England - a division of the United Kingdom


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Philip knew what sort of lives the clergy led in the corner of East Anglia which was his home.
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On the other hand, Laird Johnson, a very capable East Anglia observer, has recorded six-twenty as the hour.
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Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day, while on every hand enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of old East Anglia.
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