Traditional term for a division of land, found in some English-speaking countries
This article is about the administrative unit. For other uses, see Shire (disambiguation).
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Shire (/ʃaɪər/, also /ʃɪər/) is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia and the United States. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century. In some rural parts of Australia, a shire is a local government area; however, in Australia, it is not synonymous with a "county", which is a lands administrative division.
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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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194, 274. Shirer 1960, p. 194. Bullock 1962, p. 265. City of Potsdam. Shirer 1960, pp. 196–197. Shirer 1960, p. 198. Evans 2003, p. 335. Shirer 1960, p...
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