sussex split into east and west in 1889.
sussex split into east and west in 1889.
when did sussex split into east and west?
1889
formerly a saxon kingdom, sussex was absorbed into wessex, becoming a county in the later kingdom of england. from at least as long ago as the norman conquest, and possibly originating in the romano-british period, or perhaps representing the shires of the kingdom of sussex, sussex was sub-divided into territories known as 'rapes', a sub-division unique to the county. from at least the 16th century, the three eastern rapes and three western rapes were informally grouped together as sussex's eastern and western divisions. county councils were created for east and west sussex in 1889. in 1974 the present-day district of mid sussex, (a large part of the rape of lewes) was transferred from east sussex to west sussex and east and west sussex were made into separate ceremonial counties. in 1997, brighton and hove became a self-administered unitary authority; it was granted city status in 2000, whilst remaining part of the ceremonial county of east sussex.
geography of sussex
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tragopogon mirus ownbey, the remarkable goatsbeard, is a species considered native to certain regions of north america. intensive studies over the course of many years have demonstrated that it originated as an allopolyploid hybrid between "t. dubius" scop. and "t. porrifolius" l., both of which are european species naturalized in the us. "tragopogon mirus" has become established in the wild, reproducing by its own, thus deserving recognition as a species.
tragopogon mirus