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BERNICIA , the See also: northern of the two See also: English kingdoms which were eventually See also: united in the See also: kingdom of Northumbria
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Its territory is said to have stretched from the See also: Tyne northwards, ultimately reaching the Forth, while its western frontier was gradually extended at the expense of the Welsh
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The chief royal residence was See also: Bamburgh, and near it was the See also: island of Lindisfarne, afterwards the see of a See also: bishop
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The first See also: king of whom we have any record is
See also: Ida, who is said to have obtained the See also: throne about 547
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See also: IEthelfrith, king of Bernicia, united See also: Deira to his own kingdom, probably about 6o5, and the union continued under his successor Edwin, son of Ella or IElle, king of Deira
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Bernicia was again See also: separate from Deira under Eanfrith, son of lEthelfrith (633–634), after which date the See also: kings of Bernicia were supreme in Northumbria, though for a See also: short See also: time under See also: Oswio Deira had a king of its own
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See See also: Bede, Hist
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See also: Eccles. ii
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14, iii
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1, 14; See also: Nennius, § 63; Simeon of Durham, i
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339
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(F
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G . M . B.) BERNICIAN SERIES, in geology, aSee also: term proposed by S
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P
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Woodward in 1856 (See also: Manual of See also: Mollusca, p
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409) for the See also: lower portion of the Carboniferous See also: System,below the Millstone Grit
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The name was suggested by that of the See also: ancient province of Bernicia on the Anglo-Scottish borderland
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It is practically See also: equivalent to the " Dinantien " of A. de Lapparent and Munier-Chalmas (1893)
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In 1875 G
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Tate's " Calcareous and Carbonaceous " See also: groups of the Carboniferous See also: Limestone series of See also: Northumberland were united by Professor Lebour into a single series, to which he applied the name " Bernician "; but later he speaks of the whole of the Carboniferous rocks of Northumberland and its
See also: borders as of the" Bernician type," which is the most satisfactory way in which the term may now be used (Report of the Brit
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Sub-committee on See also: Classification and Nomenclature, 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1888)
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" Demetian " was the corresponding designation proposed by Woodward for the Upper Carboniferous rocks
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