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Northumbria, officially the Republic of Northumbria, is a country located on the island of Great Britain, between England to the south and west, and Scotland to the north. It covers 8,592 km² (3,317 sq mi) and has a population of 2.6 million, making it out of the countries in Europe the 40th-largest by area and 31st-largest by population. Bamburgh is the nation's de jure capital, but its largest city Newcastle-upon-Tyne the de facto seat of government.

Humans have lived in Northumbria since the end of the last ice age. Emerging from the fractured political landscape of Sub-Roman Britain, the Kingdom of Northumbria became one of Anglo-Saxon England's strongest powers, extending from the Firth of Forth down to the River Humber, from which its name derives. [The Northumbrian Renaissance, producing such scholars as Bede and Alcuin,]

Sources

• Jackson, Dan (2019). The Northumbrians: North-East England and its People. C. Hurst & Co.
• Adams, Max (2013). The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria. Head of Zeus.
• Rollason, David (2003). Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom. Cambridge University Press.
• Higham, N.J. (1993). The Kingdom of Northumbria. Alan Sutton Publishing.