The court moved around the kingdom, and there was no fixed capital city. The kingdom was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries, in the region now known as the English Midlands. Mercia dominated what would later become England for three centuries, subsequently going into a gradual decline while Wessex eventually conquered and united all the kingdoms into the Kingdom of England. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce (West Saxon dialect Merce in the Mercian dialect itself), meaning "border people" (see March). Mercia ( / ˈ m ɜːr ʃ i ə, - ʃ ə, - s i ə/, Old English: Miercna rīċe Latin: Merciorum regnum) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.
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