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  1. Anglo-Saxon kingdom that emerged in the 6th
  2. century. By the late 8th century it dominated
  3. all England south of the Humber, but from
  4. about 825 came under the power of Wessex.
  5. Mercia eventually came to denote an area
  6. bounded by the Welsh border, the river
  7. Humber, East Anglia, and the river Thames.
  8.