where did the saxons come from?

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2006-12-02 02:29:14 · answer #1 · answered by richard_beckham2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

The Saxons or Saxon people are (nowadays) part of the German people with its main areas of settlements in the German States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, the northern part of North-Rhine-Westphalia and the northeastern part of the Netherlands (Drenthe, Groningen, Twente, Achterhoek).

First mentioned by the Ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, the pre-Christian settlement of the Saxon people originally covered an area a little more to the Northwest, with parts of the southern Jutland peninsula, Old Saxony and small sections of the eastern Netherlands. During the 5th century AD, the Saxons were part of the people invading the Romano-British province of Britannia, thus forming the Anglo-Saxons.

2006-12-02 10:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by Quizard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

The Angle, Saxon, and Jute tribes who invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries are known as the Anglo-Saxons. They left their homelands in northern Germany, Denmark and northern Holland and rowed across the North Sea in wooden boats.

The Anglo-Saxons took control of most of Britain, although they never conquered Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. They divided the country into kingdoms, each with its own royal family. The stronger kingdoms often took control of the weaker kingdoms.

By around AD 600 the five main Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Kent and Anglia.

2006-12-02 12:55:21 · answer #3 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

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2006-12-02 10:39:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Dresden Germany

2006-12-02 10:36:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Probably the saxony area of Germany

2006-12-02 10:29:39 · answer #6 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Saxony.

2006-12-02 11:00:30 · answer #7 · answered by costa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

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2006-12-02 10:34:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋

where did the saxons come from?

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