Anglo-Saxons
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- The ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD.
- Germanic peoples inhabiting mediæval England.
- (US) A person of British or North European descent.
- (US, Mexican-American) A light-skinned person presumably of British or other European appearance; a white person.
The term Anglo-Saxon is used by some historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Britain beginning in the early 5th century and the period from their creation of the English nation up to the Norman conquest. The Anglo-Saxon era denotes the period of English history between about 550 and 1066.
See also
- Angles
- Anglo-Frisian
- Anglo-Saxon architecture
- Anglo-Saxon dress
- Anglo-Saxon military organization
- Britons
- Frisia
- Ingvaeones
- Jutes
- Saxons
- States in Medieval Britain
- Timeline of Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain
- Staffordshire Hoard
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