Angeln

E228984

Angeln is a historic peninsula in northern Germany, regarded as the ancestral homeland of the Angles, one of the main Germanic tribes that migrated to Britain.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Angeln canonical 5
Angeln peninsula 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historic region
peninsula
ancestralHomelandOf Angles
associatedWithEthnicGroup Angles
Germanic peoples
borderedBy Baltic Sea
Flensburg Fjord
Schlei inlet
country Germany
culturalRegionOf Schleswig-Holstein
currentAdministrativeRegion state of Schleswig-Holstein
etymologicallyRelatedTo England
English
hasClimate temperate oceanic climate
hasCoastlineOn Baltic Sea
hasDanishName Angel
hasEconomicActivity agriculture
tourism
hasGermanName Angeln
hasLandscapeType Baltic coastal landscape
gently rolling hills
hasLatinName Anglia
linked to: England
hasMajorNearbyCity Flensburg
Schleswig
hasPrimaryLanguage German
hasSettlementPattern small villages and farms
hasTopographicFeature fertile farmland
morainic hills
historicallySpokenLanguage Danish
Low German
North Frisian
historicalPeriod Early Middle Ages
historicalRole origin area of the Angles who migrated to Britain
historicalSignificance considered one of the homelands of the Anglo-Saxons
influenced formation of the Kingdom of England
knownFor being the homeland of the Angles
being the origin of the name England
locatedIn Schleswig-Flensburg district
Schleswig-Holstein
between Flensburg Fjord and Schlei
between Flensburg and Schleswig
northern Germany
linked to: Northern Germany
locatedInFormerEntity Duchy of Schleswig
partOf Jutland Peninsula
historical region of Schleswig
regionType rural region

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Angles migratedFrom Angeln
Angles originalRegion Angeln
Angles ethnonymDerivedFrom Angeln
Angeln hasGermanName Angeln
Schlei adjacentTo Angeln peninsula
linked to: Angeln