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England (MiddleAges part of Anglo-Saxon Britain), Europe
The timeframe of the various parts of Britain during the England-MiddleAges (the "Dark Ages") runs from Roman England (Britannia) in ~490 when the Romans departed to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, where England became Medieval England The Anglo-Saxons (who created this age) were a Germanic-speaking cultural group (Germanic tribes) who had migrated from nearby northwestern Europe to the southern half of the island of Great Britain; they and their descendants and the indigenous British groups (who adopted many aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and language) became the group. They established the Kingdom of England; the modern English language owes almost half of its words-including the most common words of everyday speech-to their language The establishment of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and many shires in the 5th and 6th centuries (conventionally identified as seven kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex) and their Christianization during the 7th century changed in 927 when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan… it became part of the short-lived North Sea Empire of Cnut the Great, a personal union between England, Denmark and Norway in the 11th century The threat of Viking invasions and Danish settlers and the gradual unification of England under the Wessex hegemony during the 9th and 10th centuries ended with the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 See Roman Brittania and Medieval England for more info as well as the note in The Shires of Britain (part of this place) [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England ] and [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire ]
