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East Anglia

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Noun

1. east anglia

a region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

East Anglia

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noun
1. 
a region of E England south of the Wash: consists of Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire
2. 
an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk in the 6th century ad; became a dependency of Mercia in the 8th century

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East Anglia

see synonyms of east anglia
1. 
former Anglo-Saxon kingdom in E England
2. 
corresponding section in modern England, chiefly comprising the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

East Anglia

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A region and Anglo-Saxon kingdom of eastern England. Settled by Angles in the late fifth century AD, it was a powerful kingdom by the late sixth century but became a dependency of Mercia for long periods after 650. The Danes controlled the region from 886 to 917, after which it became an English earldom.

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