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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 933 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEIRA , the See also:

southern of the two See also:English kingdoms afterwards See also:united as See also:Northumbria. According to See also:Simeon of See also:Durham it extended from the See also:Humber to the See also:Tyne, but the See also:land was See also:waste See also:north of the See also:Tees. See also:York was the See also:capital of its See also:kings. The date of its first See also:settlement is quite unknown, but the first See also:king of whom we have any See also:record is See also:Ella or fElle, the See also:father of See also:Edwin, who is said to have been reigning about 585. After his See also:death Deira was subject to fEthelfrith, king of Northumbria, until the See also:accession of Edwin, in 616 or 617, who ruled both kingdoms (see EDWIN) till 633. Osric the See also:nephew of Edwin ruled Deira (633-(034), but his son Oswine was put to death by See also:Oswio in 651. For a few years subsequently Deira was governed by IEthelwald son of See also:Oswald. See See also:Bede, Historia ecclesiastica, ii. 14, iii. 1, 6, 14 (ed. C. Plummer, See also:Oxford, 1896) ; See also:Nennius, Historia Brittonum, § 64 (ed.

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Mommsen, See also:Berlin, 1898) ; Simeon of Durham, See also:Opera, i. 339 (ed. T. See also:Arnold, See also:London, 1882-1885). (F. G. M.

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