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After 867, Northumbria came under control of the Scandinavian forces, and there was an influx of Scandinavian immigrants. [92] Their religion was pagan and had a rich mythology. Within the Kingdom of York, once the raids and war were over, there is no evidence that the presence of Scandinavian settlers interrupted Christian practice.
Hadrian's Wall was one of the frontiers of the Roman Empire. [5] Roman remains can be found widely across North East England. A special exhibition based around the Roman Fort of Segedunum at Wallsend [6] and the other forts along Hadrian's Wall is complemented by the numerous artefacts that are displayed in the Great North Museum Hancock [7] in Newcastle.
Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
This timeline summarises significant events in the history of Northumbria and Northumberland. 500 559 – Ida of Bernicia is the first known King of Bernicia ; he reigned from 547 to 559. 588 – The first king of Deira was Ælla of Deira who ruled from 560 until his death in 588. 600 604 – Aethelfrith unites Bernicia and Deira to form Northumbria. 613 – Æthelfrith engaged in the Battle ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
This is a list of placenames in Scotland that have been applied to parts of Canada by Scottish emigrants or explorers.. For Nova Scotian names in Scottish Gaelic (not necessarily the same as the English versions) see Canadian communities with Scottish Gaelic speakers and Scottish Gaelic placenames in Canada
After the decisive defeat of Northumbrian forces by the Viking Great Heathen Army, at the Battle of York in 867, the united Kingdom of Northumbria disintegrated. The lands north of the Tyne remained a de facto independent kingdom called Bamburgh after the stronghold of its high-reeves.
The site now occupied by Bamburgh Castle was previously home to a fort of the Celtic Britons known as Din Guarie [5] and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia, the realm of the Gododdin people, [6] from the realm's foundation in c. 420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle.