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East Anglia is an area in the East of England, [1] often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. [2] The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles , a people whose name originated in Anglia (Angeln) , in what is now Northern Germany .
Some flags are traditional, meaning their designs have long been associated with the county (or in some cases, such as Kent and Sussex, an ancient kingdom), while other flags are based on the County Council arms or are winners of recent design competitions. The dates indicate the flag's date of first appearance, description, or in more recent ...
Flag of the University of East Anglia: Flag of the University of Edinburgh: A blue saltire on a white field, with a thistle in the upper quarter, a castle in the lower quarter, and an open book in the centre of the saltire. It is a banner of the University's coat of arms. Flag of the University of Glasgow: Flag of the University of Hull
The annual Heffle Cuckoo Fair has been held in Heathfield since 1315. There are insignia of the local scouts, football club, and parish council on the Gibraltar Tower. The flag's top right corner shows the tower's position east of town, looking down on the buildings below. A key referencing the flag of Gibraltar is displayed on the tower. [23 ...
East Midlands – per East Midlands, less Northamptonshire and mid Lincolnshire; South West – per South West England; East Anglia – Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, northern Essex, southern Lincolnshire; South East – South East England and Greater London with Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, southern Essex
The Heptarchy is the name for the division of Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries into petty kingdoms, conventionally the seven kingdoms of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex, and Wessex.
According to some scholars, a national identity of the English as the people or ethnic group dominant in England can be traced to the Anglo-Saxon period.. For Lindy Brady and Marc Morris, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and the construction of Offa's Dyke exemplifies the establishment of such an identity as early as AD 731, becoming a national identity with the unification ...
The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, [1] the area still known as East Anglia.