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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Angles canonical 34

How this entity was disambiguated

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (34)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mercia → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Saxons → relatedEthnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Jutes → associatedWith → Angles ⓘ
Jutes → relatedTo → Angles ⓘ
Bernicia → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Great Migration → involved → Angles ⓘ
Angeln → ancestralHomelandOf → Angles ⓘ
Deira → hasEthnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Widsith → mentionsTribe → Angles ⓘ
Beornice → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Ingvaeones → notableTribe → Angles ⓘ
Rheged → opponent → Angles ⓘ
Eahlflæd → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ