Angles (tribe)
The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England. Their name, which derives from the Anglia Peninsula, is the root of the name England ("land of Ængle"). According to Tacitus, writing around 100 AD, a people known as Angles (Anglii) lived east of the Lombards and Semnones, who lived near the Elbe river.
Ængle / Engle | |
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The spread of Angles (orange) and Saxons (blue) to the British Isles around 500 AD | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| origin: southern Jutland: Schleswig (Anglia, Schwansen, Danish Wahld, North Frisia/North Frisian Islands) Holstein (Eiderstedt, Dithmarschen) destination: Heptarchy (England) | |
| Languages | |
| Old English | |
| Religion | |
| Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, English, Lowland Scots, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes |
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