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"Anglo-Saxons is a collective term usually used to describe culturally and linguistically related groups of people living in Great Britain from around the mid-5th century AD. They spoke Germanic languages and included people known as Angles, Saxons, Frisians and Jutes. These people, their culture and language came to southern Britain at about the same time as Roman rule ended.
The people of the more northern kingdoms (East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria) belonged to the Angles, who derive their name from the peninsula of Angeln in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany).
Those of Essex, Sussex and Wessex were sprung from the Saxons, who came from the region of Old Saxony.
Those of Kent and southern Hampshire were from the tribe of the Jutes.
The history of Anglo-Saxon England is the history of early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the Conquest by the Normans in 1066. The 5th and 6th centuries are known archaeologically as Sub-Roman Britain, or in popular history as the "Dark Ages"; from the 6th century larger distinctive kingdoms are developing, still known to some as the Heptarchy; the arrival of the Vikings at the end of the 8th century brought many changes to Britain, and relations with the continent were important right up to the 'end' of Anglo-Saxon England, traditionally held to be the Norman Conquest."

For more info about the time line, go to the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England

2006-09-17 16:11:41 · answer #1 · answered by peter_lobell 5 · 0 0

http://www.britannia.com/history/h50.html try this web site it should help

2006-09-17 12:55:47 · answer #2 · answered by elltea 4 · 0 0

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