☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Shire

An Anglo-Saxon administrative district — the basic unit of local government in medieval England, presided over by a shire-reeve (sheriff). The ancestor of the modern county.

Etymology: Old English: 'scīr' — division · Category: English Legal History · Source: Black's Law Dictionary
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