About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Battles involving Kent, Battles involving Mercia, Mercian people, Mercian settlements, Peoples of Anglo-Saxon Mercia, Sub-kingdoms of Mercia, Hereward the Wake, Hereford, Lady Godiva, Hwicce, Kingdom of Lindsey, Staffordshire Hoard, Medeshamstede, Bishop of Lichfield, List of monarchs of Mercia, Mercian Regiment, Battle of Chester, Beorma, Battle of Maserfield, Mercian dialect, Battle of the Winwaed, Religion in Mercia, Cynethryth, Middle Angles, Repton, Mercian Trail, Battle of Ellandun, Tribal Hidage, Battle of Hatfield Chase, Pecsaetan, Battle of Tettenhall, Wulfrun, Battle of Aylesford, Mercian Supremacy, Beormingas, Wreocensaete, Tomsaete, Battle of the Trent, Gaini, Battle of Otford, Ceollach, Stoppingas, Siege of Exeter, Battle of Pencon, Lindisfaras, Husmerae, Icel of Mercia, Battle of Hereford, Forest of Mercia, Magonsaete, Spaldingas, Battle of Cefn Digoll, Battle of Cirencester, Pencersaete, Cilternsaete, Weorgoran, Bilsaete, Southumbrians, AEbbingas, Mercian Way, Arosaete, Westerne, Middle Saxons, Snotingas, Sweordora, Eorlingas. Excerpt: Mercia (, ) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce, meaning "border people." Mercia's neighbours included Northumbria, Powys, the kingdoms of southern Wales, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, and East Anglia. The name Mercia is still in use today by a wide range of organisations, including military units, public, commercial and voluntary bodies. The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered in a field in Hammerwich, near Lichfield in July 2009, is perhaps the most important collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in EnglandMercia's exact evolution from the Anglo-Saxon invasions is more obscure than tha
