Northumbria
Northumbria was an early medieval kingdom in what is now Northern England and South Scotland. The name derives from the Old English Norþanhymbre meaning "the people or province north of the Humber", as opposed to the people south of the Humber Estuary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: kingdom of the Angles (653–954)
- Also known as: “Kingdom of Northumbria” and “Norþanhymbra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hadrian’s Wall and Magnis.
Hadrian’s Wall
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hadrian's Wall was built by the Roman Empire to protect their territory in England from the Pictish tribes of Scotland. It was built relatively quickly from 122 AD, with associated castles and forts, and stretches for 73 miles from the Tyne estuary on the east coast to Solway Firth on the west coast.
Magnis
Archaeological site
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Magnis or Magna was a Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain. Its ruins are now known as Carvoran Roman Fort and are located near Carvoran, Northumberland, in northern England.
Thirlwall Castle
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thirlwall Castle is a 12th-century castle in Northumberland, England, on the bank of the River Tipalt close to the village of Greenhead and approximately 20 miles west of Hexham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haltwhistle and Gilsland.
Haltwhistle
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
Haltwhistle is a market town in Northumberland, along the route between Newcastle and Carlisle, with a population of 4650 in 2021. It contrived to be named for a railway halt over 600 years before that railway arrived: Hautwysel means a hill between two forks of a river. Hadrian's Wall is the main reason to visit, the Roman frontier defence built in 122 AD.
Gilsland
Village
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gilsland is a village in northern England about 20 miles west of Hexham, and about 18 miles east of Carlisle, which straddles the border between Cumbria and Northumberland. Gilsland is situated 3 miles west of Northumbria.
Plenmeller
Locality
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plenmeller is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Plenmeller with Whitfield, in Northumberland, England about a mile southeast of Haltwhistle. In 1951 the parish had a population of 107. Plenmeller is situated 3½ miles southeast of Northumbria.
Northumbria
- Category: historical country
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Northumbria” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نورثمبريا”
- Armenian: “Նորթումբրիա”
- Asturian: “Reinu de Northumbria”
- Basque: “Northumbria”
- Bavarian: “Northumbria”
- Belarusian: “Нартумбрыя”
- Bengali: “নর্থামব্রিয়া”
- Breton: “Rouantelezh Northumbria”
- Bulgarian: “Нортумбрия”
- Catalan: “Northumbria”
- Catalan: “Northúmbria”
- Catalan: “Regne de Northumbria”
- Chinese: “诺森布里亚”
- Chinese: “诺森布里亚王国”
- Chinese: “诺森布里亚语”
- Chinese: “諾森布里亞”
- Chinese: “諾森布里亞王國”
- Chinese: “諾森布里亞語”
- Croatian: “Kraljevina Northumbrija”
- Croatian: “Kraljevstvo Northumbrija”
- Czech: “Northumbrie”
- Czech: “Northumbrijské království”
- Danish: “Northumbria”
- Dutch: “Koninkrijk Northumbria”
- Dutch: “Northumbria”
- Dutch: “Northumbrie”
- Dutch: “Northumbrië”
- Esperanto: “Northumbria”
- Esperanto: “Northumbrio”
- Esperanto: “Nortumbrio”
- Estonian: “Northumbria”
- Finnish: “Northumbria”
- Finnish: “Northumbrialaiset”
- French: “Northumbria”
- French: “Northumbrie”
- Galician: “Northumbria”
- Galician: “Nortumbria”
- Galician: “Reino de Northumbria”
- Georgian: “ნორთუმბრია”
- German: “Nordhumbrien”
- German: “Northumbria”
- German: “Northumbrien”
- Gothic: “𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐌰𐌷𐌿𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌾𐌰”
- Gothic: “𐌽𐍉𐍂𐌸𐌷𐌿𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌾𐌰”
- Greek: “Βασίλειο της Νορθούμπρια”
- Greek: “Νορθουμβρία”
- Hebrew: “ממלכת נורת’מבריה”
- Hebrew: “נורת’אמבריה”
- Hebrew: “נורת’האמבריה”
- Hebrew: “נורת’מבריה”
- Hebrew: “נורתמבריה”
- Hungarian: “Northumbria”
- Icelandic: “Konungsríkið Norðymbraland”
- Icelandic: “Norðhumbría”
- Icelandic: “Norðymbraland”
- Indonesian: “Kerajaan Northumbria”
- Indonesian: “Northumbria”
- Irish: “Ríocht Northumbria”
- Italian: “Northumbria”
- Italian: “Regno di Northumbria”
- Japanese: “ノーサンブリア”
- Japanese: “ノーサンブリア王国”
- Korean: “노섬브리아 왕국”
- Korean: “노섬브리아”
- Latin: “Regnum Northanhymbrorum”
- Latvian: “Nortambrija”
- Latvian: “Nortumbrija”
- Lithuanian: “Nortumbrija”
- Low German: “Northhumbria”
- Low German: “Northumbria”
- Low German: “Northumbrien”
- Luxembourgish: “Kinnekräich Northumbrien”
- Luxembourgish: “Northumbrien”
- Macedonian: “Кралство Нортамбрија”
- Macedonian: “Нортамбрија”
- Mazanderani: “نرف آمبریا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongedømmet Northumbria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordimbraland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Northumbria”
- Norwegian: “Northumbria”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþanhymbra rice”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþhymbra Rīce”
- Persian: “پادشاهی نورثامبریا”
- Polish: “Northumbria”
- Polish: “Nortumbria”
- Portuguese: “Northumbria”
- Portuguese: “Nortúmbria”
- Portuguese: “Reino da Nortúmbria”
- Portuguese: “Reino de Nortúmbria”
- Romanian: “Northumbria”
- Russian: “Королевство Нортумбрия”
- Russian: “Нортумбрия”
- Scots: “Kinrick o Northumbrie”
- Serbian: “Нортамбрија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kraljevina Northumbrija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kraljevina Nortumbrija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nortambrija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Northumbria”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Northumbrija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nortumbrija”
- Slovak: “Northumbria”
- Slovenian: “Northumbria”
- Slovenian: “Northumbrija”
- South Azerbaijani: “نورثامبریا کراللیغی”
- Spanish: “Northumbria”
- Spanish: “Nortumbria”
- Spanish: “Reino de Northumbria”
- Swedish: “Northumbria”
- Swedish: “Northumbrien”
- Thai: “Kingdom of Northumbria”
- Thai: “Northumbria”
- Thai: “นอร์ทธัมเบรีย”
- Thai: “ราชอาณาจักรนอร์ทัมเบรีย”
- Thai: “อาณาจักรนอร์ทธัมเบรีย”
- Turkish: “Northumbria”
- Ukrainian: “Королівство Нортумбрія”
- Ukrainian: “Нортумбрія”
- Venetian: “regno de Nortùnbria”
- Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Northumbria”
- Welsh: “Northumbria”
- Western Frisian: “Keninkryk Noardumbrje”
- Western Frisian: “Northumbria”
- Wu Chinese: “诺森布里亚王国”
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