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Angles

North Sea Germanic people, from the eponymous area

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The Angles were a Germanic people from a region in what is now northern Germany and southern Denmark who, along with other groups, migrated to and settled in Britain during the early medieval period. They are historically significant because they played a foundational role in establishing Anglo-Saxon England and contributed substantially to the cultural, linguistic, and political foundations of what would become England.

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The approximate positions of some Germanic peoples reported by Graeco-Roman authors in the 1st century. Suevian peoples in red, and other Irminones in purple

The Angles (Old English: Engle, Latin: Anglii) were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. 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 names England ("Engla land", "Land of the Angles"), and English, for both its people and its language. According to Tacitus, writing around 100 AD, a people known as Angles (Anglii) lived beyond (apparently northeast of) the Langobards and Semnones, who lived near the River Elbe.