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Shire (/ʃaɪər/) is a
traditional term for an
administrative division of land in
Great Britain and some
other English-speaking countries. It is generally...
- The
Shire is a
region of J. R. R. Tolkien's
fictional Middle-earth,
described in The Lord of the
Rings and
other works. The
Shire is an
inland area settled...
- Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the
United States. An
equivalent term,
shire town, is used in the U.S.
state of
Vermont and in
several other English-speaking...
- a reeve,
responsible for
managing a
shire or
county on
behalf of the king. The term is a
contraction of "
shire reeve" (Old
English scīrgerefa). The sheriff...
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recorded as
Legeceasterscir in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,
meaning "the
shire of the city of legions".
Although the name
first appears in 980, it is thought...
- the
largest county in
South East
England and
remains the
third largest shire county in the
United Kingdom despite losing more land than any
other English...
- A
shire court or
shire moot was an Anglo-Saxon
government institution, used to
maintain law and
order at a
local level, and
perform various administrative...
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Knight of the
shire (Latin:
milites comitatus) was the
formal title for a
member of
parliament (MP)
representing a
county constituency in the British...
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Evans 2005, p. 120.
Shirer 1960, p. 709.
Beevor 2012, pp. 70–71, 79.
Shirer 1960, pp. 715–719.
Shirer 1960, pp. 731–738.
Shirer 1960, pp. 696–730. Kershaw...
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William Lawrence Shirer (/ˈʃaɪrər/;
February 23, 1904 –
December 28, 1993) was an
American journalist, war correspondent, and historian. His The Rise and...
