Angles (tribe)

Angles
Angle / Engle
	The spread of Angles (orange) and Saxons (blue) to the British Isles around 500 AD
Regions with significant populations
	origin: southern Jutland:; Schleswig (Angeln, 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-Frisian, Anglo-Normans, English, Lowland Scots, Anglo, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes

The Angles (Old English: Engle, Latin: Anglii) were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period.^[2] They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England. Their name, which probably derives from the Angeln peninsula, is the root of the name England ("Engla land", "Land of the Angles"), and English, in reference to both for its people and language. According to Tacitus, writing around 100 AD, a people known as Angles (Anglii) lived beyond (apparently northeast of) the Lombards and Semnones, who lived near the River Elbe.^[3]

^ Danver, Steven L. (2014). "Groups: Europe". Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues. Routledge. p. 372. ISBN 978-0765682949.
^ Darvill, Timothy, ed. (2009). "Angles". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191727139. Retrieved 26 January 2020. Angles. A Germanic people who originated on the Baltic coastlands of Jutland.
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[1] Danver, Steven L. (2014). "Groups: Europe". Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues. Routledge. p. 372. ISBN 978-0765682949.

[2] Darvill, Timothy, ed. (2009). "Angles". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191727139. Retrieved 26 January 2020. Angles. A Germanic people who originated on the Baltic coastlands of Jutland.

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Angle / Engle
The spread of Angles (orange) and Saxons (blue) to the British Isles around 500 AD
Regions with significant populations
origin: southern Jutland: Schleswig (Angeln, 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-Frisian, Anglo-Normans, English, Lowland Scots,^[1] Anglo, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes