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From: "raffer" <>
Subject: Re: O.T. County names help ( please! )
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:29:12 -0700


> >
> >Essex vs Wessex vs Sussex ... what's the 'sex' parts of those
> >place names? What's it mean/come from?

East Saxons, West Saxons, and South Saxons-after they left Saxony and
colonized Southern England.

--
Raffer

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