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mercia
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Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy . The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce , meaning "border people" (see March ). The kingdom was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries, in the region ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Midlands, Latinized from Old English Mierce "men of the Marches," from mearc (see march (n.2)). Related: Mercian .
Usage examples of mercia.
Since the witan met wherever the king was and Edward had never been to the north, no national gemot within memory had been held in the northern earldoms of Mercia or Northumbria.
Edwin of Mercia and Morkere of Northumbria, the man the earldom had chosen in place of Tostig.
It was looted in a raid on Mercia led by Righ Aed Allan, nine centuries ago, after the original Jewel of Ulaid was hurled into Lough Neagh by the defeated Righ Cathussach, just before Aed Allan caught up to him, killed him, and took his throne.
The house stands, or, rather, used to stand here when Mercia was a kingdom--I do not suppose that the basement can be later than the Norman Conquest.