1) Geographic area 2) Geographic region 3) Geographical area 4) Geographical region 5) Hardy characters live in it 6) Historical region 7) Kingdom of ancient England 8) Locale of Hardy novels 9) Old british kingdom 10) Old English kingdom 11) Region of England 12) Scene of Hardy novels 13) Site of many Hardy novels
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The Kingdom of the West Saxons (Westseaxna rīce), usually referred to as Wessex (s), was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519 until the emergence of a unified English state during the early 10th century. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, but it is possible that this account is a lege...
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[European Parliament constituency] Wessex was a European Parliament constituency covering all of Dorset in England, plus parts of western Hampshire and southern Wiltshire. It was named after the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex. Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post fo...
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(from the article `Hardy, Thomas`) ...career that was soon validated by an invitation to contribute a serial to the far more prestigious Cornhill Magazine. The resulting novel, Far ...
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one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land ... [6 related articles]
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Kingdom of the West Saxons in Britain, said to have been founded by Cerdic about AD 500, covering Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, and the former county of Berkshire. In 829 Egbert...
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HMS Wessex was a British Wager Class destroyer of 1710 tons displacement launched in 1943 as HMS Zenith. HMS Wessex was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots. She carried a complement of 186 and was armed with four 4.7 inch guns; four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; four 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and four depth cha...
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[
n] - a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century
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noun a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century
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Kingdom of the West Saxons in Britain, said to have been founded by Cerdic about AD 500, covering Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, and the former county of Berkshire. In 829 Egbert established West Saxon supremacy over all England. Thomas Hardy used the term Wessex in his novels for the...
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