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Map showing the dioceses of southern England during the reign of Offa, when for a short period there was an archbishopric of Lichfield. However, Mercia did not long survive as an ecclesiastical entity. Chad's successor, Winfrith, was expected to conform more closely to Roman norms but was soon at loggerheads with Archbishop Theodore.
Mercia's exact evolution at the start of the Anglo-Saxon era remains more obscure than that of Northumbria, Kent, or even Wessex. Mercia developed an effective political structure and was Christianised later than the other kingdoms. [5] Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century.
Original – This map shows the routes to and locations of the concentration and extermination camps where the Holocaust was perpetrated in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Reason This is a comprehensively detailed map that puts the systematic logistics of the Holocaust, in which 2/3 of European Jews were killed, into perspective.
English: Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II, 1939-1945. This map shows all extermination camps (or death camps), most major concentration camps, labor camps, prison camps, ghettos, major deportation routes and major massacre sites.
[24] [25] The government began to close all Catholic institutions which were not strictly religious; Catholic schools were shut by 1939, and the Catholic press by 1941. [26] [27] Clergy, religious women and men, and lay leaders were targeted; thousands were arrested, often on trumped-up charges of currency smuggling or "immorality". [28]
Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews. Among the others who lost their lives were Poles ...
Holocaust death toll as a percentage of the total pre-war Jewish population in Europe The Jewish population growth/decline by country between 1945–1946 and 2010. The countries with the greatest Jewish population losses since 1945 were primarily those in Central and Eastern Europe .
English: A map of Mercia, made using information from OpenStreetMap, Hill 'An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England' and Stenton, 'Anglo-Saxon England' Date 15 July 2012