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[[Image:Dykemap.gif|right|thumb|200px|Map of Wales showing the route taken by Offa's Dyke]]

[[Image:Dykemap.gif|right|thumb|200px|Map of Wales showing the route taken by Offa's Dyke]]

Offa (757 -796 AD) was King of [[Mercia]], a kingdom in what is currently part of [[England]], between the Trent/Mersey rivers in the North to the [[Thames]] Valley in the South, and from the Welsh border in the West to the Fens in the East. At the height of his power, however, he also controlled [[Kent]], [[East Anglia]] and [[Lincoln]], and had alliances with [[Northumbria]] and [[Wessex]]. These alliances were  sealed by the marriage of two of his daughters to their Kings, Aethelred and Beorhtic respectively. He was, therefore, effectively one of the first Kings of England.

Offa (757 -796 AD) was King of [[Mercia]], a kingdom in what is currently part of [[England]], between the [[River Trent|Trent]]/[[River Mersey|Mersey]] rivers in the North to the [[Thames]] Valley in the South, and from the [[Wales|Welsh]] border in the West to the Fens in the East. At the height of his power, however, he also controlled [[Kent]], [[East Anglia]] and [[Lincoln]], and had alliances with [[Northumbria]] and [[Wessex]]. These alliances were  sealed by the marriage of two of his daughters to their Kings, Aethelred and Beorhtic respectively. He was, therefore, effectively one of the first Kings of England.

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