Deira
Kingdom in the north of early Anglo-Saxon Britain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Deira (disambiguation).
For the district in Dubai, see Deira, Dubai.
Deira (/ˈdaɪrə, ˈdɛərə/ DY-rə, DAIR-ə;[1] Old Welsh/Cumbric: Deywr or Deifr; Old English: Derenrice or Dere) was an area of Post-Roman Britain, and a later Anglian kingdom.[2]
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Kingdom of Deira | |||||||||||
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c. 450–654 | |||||||||||
Capital | York | ||||||||||
Common languages | Old English, Common Brittonic | ||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
Historical era | Early Medieval | ||||||||||
• Established | c. 450 | ||||||||||
• Shared crown with Bernicia | 604 | ||||||||||
• merged with Bernicia | 654 | ||||||||||
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