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Angles (continental homeland)

100 – 450
CultureEurope

A Germanic people on the Angeln peninsula (modern Schleswig-Holstein), first recorded by Tacitus around 100 AD living near the Elbe beyond the Langobardi and Semnones; their homeland gives its name to England and English.

From the mid-5th century onward, most of the Angles migrated to Britain, founding the kingdoms of the Heptarchy (Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia); a residual population is later attested in Angeln into the medieval period.

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