Rheged

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Rheged was a powerful early medieval Brittonic kingdom in what is now northern England and southern Scotland, known from Welsh tradition and early British history.

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Surface form Occurrences
Urien Rheged 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf early medieval kingdom
associatedWith Owain ap Urien NERFINISHED
Rhydderch Hael NERFINISHED
Urien Rheged NERFINISHED
capital unknown
continent Europe
culture Brittonic
disestablished 7th century
ethnicGroup Brittonic peoples
fate absorbed into Northumbria
floruit 6th century
7th century
hasNotableFigure Taliesin NERFINISHED
historicalStatus semi-legendary
knownFrom Welsh tradition
early British historical sources
languageUsed Common Brittonic NERFINISHED
Cumbric
legacy preserved in Welsh literature
toponymic traces in Cumbria
locatedIn northern England
southern Scotland NERFINISHED
mentionedIn Triads of the Island of Britain NERFINISHED
Welsh poetry
modernEquivalentRegion Cumbria NERFINISHED
Dumfries and Galloway NERFINISHED
Scottish Borders NERFINISHED
opponent Angles NERFINISHED
Bernicia NERFINISHED
partOf Hen Ogledd NERFINISHED
partOfConflict Anglo-British wars NERFINISHED
poetryAssociatedWith Taliesin corpus NERFINISHED
politicalStructure monarchy
possibleCenter Carlisle NERFINISHED
Cumbria region NERFINISHED
Dunragit NERFINISHED
precededBy post-Roman Britain
regionType sub-Roman successor state
religion Celtic Christianity NERFINISHED
ruler Owain ap Urien NERFINISHED
Urien Rheged NERFINISHED
sourceType limited historical records
literary tradition
timePeriod early Middle Ages

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King Uriens basedOn Rheged
this entity surface form: Urien Rheged