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During the Middle Ages, Britain went through a series of changes, with new countries being started up and either uniting with others or dying out.
When the Romans left Britain, the territory mostly came under the control of local Celtic leaders. Most of what happened, who the people were and where they ruled, has been forgotten.
Germanic people began to invade, pushing the Celts westward and northward. The Celts created principalities in Wales, Cornwall, Strathclyde, and Scotland. Among the names of these, which existed at various times, are the following:
- Elmet
- Rheged
- Strathclyde
- Ebrauc
- Bryneich
- Gododdin
- The Picts
- Dalriata
- Alt Clut
- Bernicia
The invading peoples, mostly Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, created a set of kingdoms called the Heptarchy. The four largest of these were:
- Wessex
- East Anglia
- Mercia
- Northumberland
Smaller kingdoms of the Heptarchy were:
- Kent
- Sussex
- Essex
But there were a number of even smaller kingdoms, including:
- The Isle of Wight
- The Meonwara
- Surrey
- Iclingas
- Lindsey
- The Hwicca
- Magonsaete
- Pecsaete
- Wreocensaete
- Tomsaete
- Haestingas
- Middle Anglia
- Dumnonia
The various Germanic kingdoms were eventually united into England. Vikings and Danes invaded at different times and created the Kingdom of Alba, which eventually became part of Scotland, and the Danelaw, which was united with England.
By the end of the Early Middle Ages, the situation in Britain had come to a point when there was England, a set of Scottish kingdoms, and a set of Welsh principalities.
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