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Source: Wikipedia - the Angles

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Angles Ængle/ Engle Anglo-Saxon Homelands and Settlements.svg Spread of Angles (red) and Saxons (blue) around 500 AD Regions with significant populations Schleswig (Anglia), Holstein, Jutland, Frisia, Heptarchy (England) Languages Old English (Anglic dialects) Religion Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity Related ethnic groups Anglo-Saxons, English, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes 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: Ængle, Engle; Latin: Angli; German: Angeln) were one of the main Germanic peoples[1] who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England ("land of Ængle"). According to Tacitus, writing before their move to Britain, Angles lived alongside Langobards and Semnones in historical regions of Schleswig and Holstein, which are today part of southern Denmark and northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).[2]

Angles
Ængle/ Engle
Anglo-Saxon Homelands and Settlements.svg
Spread of Angles (red) and Saxons (blue) around 500 AD
Regions with significant populations
Schleswig (Anglia), Holstein, Jutland, Frisia, Heptarchy (England)
Languages
Old English
(Anglic dialects)
Religion
Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Anglo-Saxons, English, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes

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: Ængle, Engle; Latin: Angli; German: Angeln) were one of the main Germanic peoples[1] who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England ("land of Ængle"). According to Tacitus, writing before their move to Britain, Angles lived alongside Langobards and Semnones in historical regions of Schleswig and Holstein, which are today part of southern Denmark and northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).[2]