Heptarchy meaning

hĕptärkē
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The informal confederation of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from the fifth to the ninth century, consisting of Kent, Sussex, Wessex, Essex, Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia.
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(place) The supposed confederacy of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
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(place) The kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England before the 9th cent. a.d.
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Government by seven people.
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A state governed by seven people, or an association of seven states (as in Anglo-Saxon Britain)
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Origin of heptarchy

  • From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • hepta- +‎ -archy

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Heptarchy Sentence Examples

  • During the Heptarchy what is now the shire formed part of Mercia; by the treaty of Wedmore, however, it became Danish territory, but was recovered by King Edward (919-921).

  • The state of the island was much like that of England in the days of the Heptarchy: occasionally a High King succeeded in forcing his rivals into a precarious submission; more usually there was not even a pretence of a central authority in the island, and the annals of objectless tribal wars formed its sole history.

  • The kingdom was soon acknowledged as the most important of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, (the 7 English kingdom's of that time ).

  • Eventually the invading tribes coalesced into seven main kingdoms known as the Heptarchy.

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