Deira

See also: deira

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaɪɹə/, /ˈdɛəɹə/

Proper noun

Deira

  1. (historical) A region of post-Roman Britain, later an Anglian Kingdom.
    • 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 19:
      The domains of her ancestor, “the magnificent Earl Oslac,” who lived in the days of King Edgar, were Deira – that is, Danish Northumbria, from Humber to Tees; and he may have sprung from (as his name hints) the ancient kings of Deira.

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