heptarchy

heptarchy (hep-tahr-kee).

1. A government by seven rulers.

2. A nation divided into seven governments, specif. the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Kent, Sussex, Essex, Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria existing before the Norman Conquest.

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