Angles

E182996
Germanic people historical ethnic group

The Angles were a Germanic people who migrated to Britain in the early Middle Ages and gave their name to England and the English.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Angles canonical 19

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic people ⓘ
historical ethnic group ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Frisians ⓘ
Jutes ⓘ
Saxons ⓘ
continentOfOrigin Europe ⓘ
contributedToFormationOf Kingdom of the East Angles ⓘ
surface form: Kingdom of East Anglia

Mercia ⓘ
surface form: Kingdom of Mercia

Kingdom of Northumbria ⓘ
cultureArea Anglo-Frisian dialects ⓘ
surface form: North Sea Germanic
ethnicGroupOf Germanic peoples ⓘ
ethnicLanguageFamily West Germanic languages ⓘ
ethnonymDerivedFrom Angeln ⓘ
gaveNameTo England ⓘ
English language ⓘ
English people ⓘ
historicalStatus assimilated into English people ⓘ
influenced Anglo-Saxon art ⓘ
development of English culture ⓘ
development of English law ⓘ
languageSpoken Anglian dialects of Old English ⓘ
Old English ⓘ
laterReligion Christianity ⓘ
mentionedIn Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People ⓘ
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People ⓘ
surface form: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
migratedFrom Angeln ⓘ
Jutland Peninsula ⓘ
continental Europe ⓘ
migratedPeriod 5th century ⓘ
6th century ⓘ
Early Middle Ages ⓘ
migratedTo Great Britain ⓘ
surface form: Britain

Great Britain ⓘ
modernCountryOfOrigin Denmark ⓘ
Germany ⓘ
nameEtymologyOf England ⓘ
English ⓘ
originalRegion Angeln ⓘ
Jutland Peninsula ⓘ
Schleswig-Holstein ⓘ
partOf Anglo-Saxons ⓘ
religion Germanic paganism ⓘ
settledIn East Anglia ⓘ
Mercia ⓘ
Northumbria ⓘ
central Britain ⓘ
eastern Britain ⓘ
northern Britain ⓘ
subgroupOf Ingvaeones ⓘ

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mercia → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Britannia (Roman province) → invadedBy → Angles ⓘ
Kingdom of the East Angles → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Anglo-Saxon England → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Saxons → relatedEthnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
West Germanic peoples → hasSubgroup → Angles ⓘ
Jutes → associatedWith → Angles ⓘ
Jutes → relatedTo → Angles ⓘ
Northern Britain → historicallyInhabitedBy → Angles ⓘ
Bernicia → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Kingdom of Bernicia → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Kingdom of Deira → ethnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Great Migration → involved → Angles ⓘ
Angeln → ancestralHomelandOf → Angles ⓘ
Angeln → associatedWithEthnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
Deira → hasEthnicGroup → Angles ⓘ
English people → ancestralGroups → Angles ⓘ
Germanic Europe → includesPeople → Angles ⓘ
Kingdom of Kent → hasEthnicGroup → Angles ⓘ