Middle Saxons

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Middle Saxons (yellow) shown within Mercia
Middle Saxons (yellow) shown within Mercia

Middle Saxons were a people and their territory which later became, with somewhat contracted boundaries, the county of Middlesex, England. It included the early London settlement. The area was part of the Kingdom of Essex,[1] but was ceded to Mercia in the 8th century.


[edit] References

  1. ^ Keightley, A., The History of England, (1840)