Angles (tribe)

Angles
Ængle / Engle
	The spread of Angles (orange) and Saxons (blue) to the British Isles around 500 AD
Regions with significant populations
	origin: southern Jutland:; Schleswig (Anglia, Schwansen, Danish Wahld, North Frisia/North Frisian Islands); Holstein (Eiderstedt, Dithmarschen); destination: Heptarchy (England)
Languages
	Old English, Proto-Norse
Religion
	Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity
Related ethnic groups
	Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, English, Lowland Scots, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes

The Angles were a North Germanic Tribe and 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 derives from the Anglia Peninsula, 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]

^ Steven L. Danver (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.
^ Cite error: The named reference Tacitus was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] Steven L. Danver (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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Ængle / Engle
The spread of Angles (orange) and Saxons (blue) to the British Isles around 500 AD
Regions with significant populations
origin: southern Jutland: Schleswig (Anglia, Schwansen, Danish Wahld, North Frisia/North Frisian Islands) Holstein (Eiderstedt, Dithmarschen) destination: Heptarchy (England)
Languages
Old English, Proto-Norse
Religion
Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, English, Lowland Scots,^[1] Saxons, Frisii, Jutes