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Mercia briefly regained a political existence separate from Wessex in 955–959, when Edgar became king of Mercia, and again in 1016, when Cnut and Edmund Ironside divided the English kingdom between themselves, with Cnut taking Mercia. [27] Mercia maintained its separate identity as an earldom until the Norman Conquest in 1066. [28]
The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
After participating with other colonial powers in the war against China in the second half of the 19th century, Italy obtained a concession in Tianjin (Tientsin) with full colonial rights and some minor areas (fortifications, commercial areas, partial concessions in international settlement, etc.) in the defeated China.
The Kingdom of Mercia at its greatest extent (7th to 9th centuries) is shown in green, with the original core area (6th century) given a darker tint. This is a category for historical or geographical articles associated with the ancient Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia.
A sword of a Viking buried at Repton in Mercia. This sword is now in Derby Museum. In late 878, Guthrum's band withdrew to Cirencester, in the kingdom of Mercia. [52] Then, probably in late 879, it moved to East Anglia, [53] where Guthrum, who was also known by his baptismal name of Aethelstan, reigned as king until his death in 890. [54]
This category includes historical battles in which independent English Kingdom of Mercia (527–918) participated. Please see the category guidelines for more information. The main article for this category is Mercia .
It was as recent as the 1960s and 1970s that the Portuguese began to relinquish their colonies in Asia. Goa was invaded by India in 1961 and became an Indian state in 1987; Portuguese Timor was abandoned in 1975 and was then invaded by Indonesia. It became an independent country in 2002, and Macau was handed back to the Chinese as per a treaty ...
The Sino-Russian border conflicts [3] (1652–1689) were a series of intermittent skirmishes between the Qing dynasty of China, with assistance from the Joseon dynasty of Korea, and the Tsardom of Russia by the Cossacks in which the latter tried and failed to gain the land north of the Amur River with disputes over the Amur region.