Shire | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Shire


00:00:27 1 Etymology
00:01:55 2 Origins
00:03:21 3 Shires in the United Kingdom
00:04:11 3.1 Shire names in England
00:05:40 3.2 Shire names in Scotland
00:07:05 3.3 Shire names in Wales
00:07:46 3.4 Non-county "shires"
00:09:04 4 Shires in Australia
00:10:43 5 Shires in the United States of America
00:12:54 6 See also



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A  shire is a traditional term for a division of land, found in Great Britain, Australia and some other English-speaking countries. 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.