THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 500–617

Elmet

The Brittonic kingdom of Elmet in the West Riding of Yorkshire, between the Wharfe and the Don, one of the last British kingdoms in eastern England. Edwin of Northumbria expelled its king Ceretic c.

617. Its extent is known only from place-names (Sherburn-in-Elmet, Barwick-in-Elmet).

See Elmet on the map in 500

On the map
500–617
Capital
Leeds area (Loidis)

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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