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Should this not be headed "British kingdoms 600"? Ragbin (talk) 13:18, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

"English" is certainly wrong because it does include some non-Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in what is now England and Wales. British would be wrong too, though, because secondary sources writing about that period use "British" to refer to non-Anglo-Saxons. I think that as long as the articles using this image have appropriate captions for it the name isn't too important. Three of them use captions of the form "The state of Anglo-Saxon England", which seems reasonable to me since the map does show that. Mike Christie (talk) 13:55, 27 January 2008 (UTC)