Oswiu's campaigns against Penda (645-655) were decisive in establishing Northumbrian supremacy over the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and breaking Mercian hegemony in the Midlands. The conflict culminated in Penda's death at the Battle of the Winwaed in 655, which effectively ended the last major pagan resistance to Christian expansion in Anglo-Saxon England. These victories secured Oswiu's position as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king of his era and enabled the consolidation of Northumbrian power that would dominate the northern kingdoms for decades.
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