Northumbria
Americannoun
noun
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(in Anglo-Saxon Britain) a region that stretched from the Humber to the Firth of Forth: formed in the 7th century ad , it became an important intellectual centre; a separate kingdom until 876 ad
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an area of NE England roughly corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon region of Northumbria
Example Sentences
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In 2021, a team led by Professor Tom Stallard of Northumbria University proposed a different explanation.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
By the mid-700s, the author writes, only the kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbria, Wessex, East Anglia and Kent “functioned as largely autonomous units.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
John Hamilton, who worked as a detective constable in Northumbria Police's child abuse and sexual offences unit, was assigned to a case involving the girl.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
The project was led by Paola Tiranti of Northumbria University in the United Kingdom.
From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026
In around 800, you’d probably have heard it in any abbey you stumbled upon from Italy to Northumbria.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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