Regional917 CE

Battle of Derby

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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United Kingdom

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Derby (917), part of the Viking Wars in Britain. Mercia defeated Danish Confederation of the Five Boroughs.

Belligerents2

Mercia
Danish Confederation of the Five Boroughs

Conflict graph

PART OFViking Invasions of England

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Derby (917 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-derby · Sources & methodology