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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Regions of England, Historical regions, Articles with short description, Former kingdoms, Peoples of Anglo-Saxon England
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Wessex  Kingdom of Wessex  Arms of Edward the Confessor  Flag of Wessex  Hegemony of Wessex
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A Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century WordNet 3.0
English:
England
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A Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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 England was unified by Æthelstan in 927. Wikipedia
Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain Wikidata
One of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, existing between the 6th and 9th centuries, and comprising most of England south of the Thames. Wiktionary
A former kingdom in England. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
geographical area
kingdom
historical country
PART OF
England
Heptarchy
HAS KIND
Edwy
Egbert
Æthelred I of Wessex
Æthelwulf
BASIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT
absolute monarchy
CAPITAL
London
Winchester
CONTINENT
Europe
COUNTRY
Wessex
CURRENCY
sceat
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopedic Lexicon
FLAG
Flag of Kingdom of Wessex
FOLLOWS
Mercia
LANGUAGE USED
Brythonic
LOCATED IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORIAL ENTITY
England
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
West Saxon
OFFICIAL RELIGION
Christianity
RELIGION
Anglo-Saxon paganism
REPLACED BY
Kingdom of England
REPLACES
Kingdom of Sussex
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Wessex
Wikipedia
EN
Wessex
Wikidata
EN
Kingdom of Wessex
Wiktionary
EN
Wessex
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
Arms of Edward the Confessor, Flag of Wessex, Hegemony of Wessex, history of Wessex, Kingdom of the West Saxons, Kingdom of Wessex, The Kingdom of Wessex, Wessex, England, Wessex (England), Wessex hegemony, Wessex region, West Saxon kingdom, West Saxons, West Sexaon dialect (Old English)
Wikidata Alias
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Kingdom of the West Saxons, Wessex

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