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Anglo saxon england was early medieval england existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from the end of roman britain until the norman conquest in 1066. In the early 800s danish vikings had started attacking the country and had captured quite a few territories except wessex and had settled in the eastern half of the country but the saxon king alfred the great of wessex defeated the danes and pushed them to the north eastern side of england.

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The former britons their post roman civilisation having collapsed to a very large extent had transformed in just two centuries into the early welsh their language changing considerably to reflect their increasing isolation even from british kingdoms outside of western britain.

Map of england 800 ad. The danes attacked the east coast of england the norwegians attacked the north by way of ireland and scotland. Online historical atlas showing a map of europe at the end of each century from year 1 to year 2000. Before swamp draining by dutch engineers the heptarchy 7 kingdoms in the 7th century the main english rivers the shires of england.

Map of the political divisions or minor kingdoms found in the british isles and eire around 800ad additional resources for this period of british history follow this link for a time line of the principle events of anglo saxon britain between 450ad and 999ad. In england the norse attacks led directly to the disappearance of all the anglo saxon kingdoms except wessex. Map of england and wales ad 900 950 by the dawn of the tenth century the period of invasion and conquest by the vikings mostly originating from denmark or viking dublin had ended.

It consisted of various anglo saxon kingdoms until 927 when it was united as the kingdom of england by king æthelstan r. The 9th century may well have turned into a struggle for the upper hand between mercia and wessex if not for one thing. This time it was the danes and norwegians.

It became part of the short lived north sea empire of cnut the great a personal union between england. By ad 700 the angles and saxons had conquered and settled much of what was becoming england engle land. Another version courtesy of my brother which has the added benefit of being on a map of england with the real coastline of the time ie.

England was once again the subject of recurring raids from across the seas. England in the 10th century. Next map britain in 1215.

England in the 10th century. The viking conquest of the kingdom of northumbria had resulted in the fragmentation of this territory north of the humber. Map of england in year 1000.

However the kings of wessex starting with alfred the great reigned 871 899 have fought the vikings back and have succeeded in uniting the whole of england plus southern scotland under their rule. Media in category maps of anglo saxon england the following 200 files are in this category out of 221 total.

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