What is the capital of England?
The easy answer is London, but that depends what you mean. The royal court, parliament and royal institutions are located in Westminster since the 1200s. This is outside of the City of London and has had its own municipal government. It has been added to Greater London or the modern London as a metropolitan, though.
London has been the largest city and financial centre, but England has historically been ruled from just outside its technical boundaries in a neighbouring town.
Before this, Winchester acted as the capital for a while in Anglo-Saxon times and a number of kings had preferences for different locales. For much of the Roman period, the capital of Roman Britannia was Camulodonum (Colchester), not Londinium - the latter only became the capital of the diocese of Britannia after Diocletian's reforms.
The easy answer is London, but that depends what you mean. The royal court, parliament and royal institutions are located in Westminster since the 1200s. This is outside of the City of London and has had its own municipal government. It has been added to Greater London or the modern London as a metropolitan, though.
London has been the largest city and financial centre, but England has historically been ruled from just outside its technical boundaries in a neighbouring town.
Before this, Winchester acted as the capital for a while in Anglo-Saxon times and a number of kings had preferences for different locales. For much of the Roman period, the capital of Roman Britannia was Camulodonum (Colchester), not Londinium - the latter only became the capital of the diocese of Britannia after Diocletian's reforms.
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