Angles

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The Angles were a Germanic people who migrated to Britain in the early Middle Ages and gave their name to England and the English.

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Angles canonical 19

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic people
historical ethnic group
closelyRelatedTo Frisians
Jutes
Saxons
continentOfOrigin Europe
contributedToFormationOf Kingdom of East Anglia
Kingdom of Mercia
linked to: Mercia

Kingdom of Northumbria
cultureArea North Sea Germanic
ethnicGroupOf Germanic peoples
ethnicLanguageFamily West Germanic languages
ethnonymDerivedFrom Angeln
gaveNameTo England
English language
English people
historicalStatus assimilated into English people
influenced Anglo-Saxon art
development of English culture
development of English law
languageSpoken Anglian dialects of Old English
Old English
laterReligion Christianity
mentionedIn Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
migratedFrom Angeln
Jutland Peninsula
continental Europe
migratedPeriod 5th century
6th century
Early Middle Ages
migratedTo Britain
linked to: Great Britain

Great Britain
modernCountryOfOrigin Denmark
Germany
nameEtymologyOf England
English
originalRegion Angeln
Jutland Peninsula
Schleswig-Holstein
partOf Anglo-Saxons
religion Germanic paganism
settledIn East Anglia
Mercia
Northumbria
central Britain
eastern Britain
northern Britain
subgroupOf Ingvaeones

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