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Sussex

Former county of England, on the south coast, now divided into East Sussex and West Sussex.

According to tradition, the Saxon Ella landed here in 477, defeated the inhabitants, and founded the kingdom of the South Saxons, which was absorbed by Wessex in 825.

Sussex

Town in southern New Brunswick, Canada, on the Kennebecasis River, 65 km/41 mi northeast of St John; population (1991) 4,100. It is an agricultural and light industrial centre in an area of potash, gypsum, and salt mines.

It was home to Acadians, then Loyalists, from the late 18th century.

Sussex

Community in southeastern Wisconsin, a suburb 24 km/15 mi northwest of Milwaukee; population (1990) 5,000.



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