Hen Ogledd

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Hen Ogledd (The Old North)

Yr Hen Ogledd is Welsh and means "The Old North". It describes the late antique British kingdoms in what is now northern England and southern Scotland .

history

These kingdoms, which emerged after the Romans withdrew in 410 , experienced their heyday in the 5th and 6th centuries. The inhabitants of these kingdoms were known as Gwŷr y Gogledd, or men from the north .

In the following period, these lands were either wiped out or, after constant attacks by the Angles , were incorporated into the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira from the 6th century onwards . These in turn went on in the following period in the Kingdom of Northumbria .

List of countries of Hen Ogledd

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