Angles (tribe)
North Sea Germanic people, from the eponymous area / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Angles (Old English: Ængle, Engle; Latin: Angli) were one of the main Germanic peoples[2] who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England. Their name 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.[3]
North Sea Germanic people, from the eponymous area
Ængle / Engle | |
|---|---|
The spread of Angles (orange) and Saxons (blue) to the British Isles around 500 AD | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Jutland (Schleswig (Anglia), Holstein), Frisia, Heptarchy (England) | |
| Languages | |
| Old English | |
| Religion | |
| Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, English, Lowland Scots,[1] Saxons, Frisii, Jutes |
