Starting Population     109                     % of Worldwide          0.4%                    

                                                Population                                      

Starting Income         1,771                   % of Worldwide          0.3%                    

                                                Income                                          

Starting GDP            23,756                  % of Worldwide GDP      0.4%                    

Starting Surplus        162                     % of Worldwide          0.5%                    

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6 fiefs in province                             Overlord:               de Warenne (281)
        

Kingdom: England

Comments: Sussex is a shire occupying the southeastern coast of England, only about 30 miles south of London. Inhabited in ancient times by the Regni, it became part of the Roman Empire in the 1st century A.D., and later formed part of the Litus Saxonicum, a defensive zone intended to keep out the Saxon raiders from across the North Sea.

In the 5th century the South Saxons (hence 'Sussex') established a kingdom which endured until incorporated by Offa into Mercia in the late 8th century. The province passed to Wessex in the reign of Egbert, thus becoming part of what would become England.

It was in Sussex that William the Conqueror landed in 1066, and near Hastings where he secured his claim to the throne by defeating the Anglo-Saxons under King Harold.

Ecclesiastical authority is vested in the Archbishop of Canterbury