What is Mercia now called?
Mercia was one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the Heptarchy. It was in the region now known as the English Midlands. … Settled by Angles, their name is the root of the name ‘England’. Who are Mercia people? Mercia, (from Old English Merce, “People of the Marches [or Boundaries]”), one of the most powerful kingdoms…