Meicen

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Meicen (also Meigen) is an unknown location somewhere in the then-British North of England, the site of the battle of Gueith Meicen at which Cadwallon overthrew Eadwine, according to the Annales Cambriae for 631; Bede places this defeat on 12 October 633, at Hatfield (Old English Haethfelth).[1]

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  1. ^ John T. Koch, "Cadwallon ap Cadfan," in The Celts: History, Life, and Culture (ABC-Clio, 2012), p. 139.
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