The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Latin: Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy"...
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The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now...
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or referred to as Zipser Saxons) from Zips, northeastern Slovakia, as well as Maramureș and Bucovina, the Transylvanian Saxons are one of the three eldest...
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Heptarchy (redirect from List of Anglo-Saxon monarchs and kingdoms)
Angles Middle Saxons (Middlesex, subsequently absorbed by the Kingdom of Essex) Pecsæte Surrey Tomsæte Wreocensæte Wihtwara Anglo-Saxon England portal...
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Bede, the term "Old Saxons" began to be used to distinguish the Saxons who were neighbours of the Franks in Europe, from the Saxons of Britain.) Jutland...
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Look up Saxon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Saxons were a Germanic people during the Early Middle Ages, related to the Anglo-Saxons. Saxon may also...
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Wessex (redirect from West Saxons)
until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the...
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Contemporary knowledge of Anglo-Saxon paganism derives largely from three sources: textual evidence produced by Christian Anglo-Saxons like Bede and Aldhelm, place-name...
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its senior side plays the Saxons—for example, USA Rugby awarded official Test caps for the USA team's matches against the Saxons in 2008. If the opposition...
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'Anglo-Saxon' came into use in the 8th century (probably by Paul the Deacon) to distinguish English Saxons from continental Saxons (Ealdseaxan, 'old' Saxons)...
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Kingdom of Essex (redirect from East Saxons)
The Kingdom of the East Saxons (Old English: Ēastseaxna rīce; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Saxonum), referred to as the Kingdom of Essex /ˈɛsɪks/, was one...
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The Alfred Saxons are composed of 21 teams representing Alfred University in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's alpine skiing, basketball...
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Alfred the Great (redirect from Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons)
[ˈæɫvˌræːd]; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest...
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English people (redirect from English/Anglo-Saxons)
Britain. The Anglo-Saxons gave their name to England ("Engla land", meaning "Land of the Angles") and to the English. The Anglo-Saxons arrived in a land...
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recalcitrant Saxons would not submit for long. After warring in Italy, he returned very rapidly to Saxony (making it to Lippe before the Saxons knew he left...
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Kingdom of Sussex (redirect from South Saxons)
find support in Sussex. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle records a further campaign against the South Saxons by the West Saxons in 725. According to a charter dated...
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up Anglo-Saxon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes that settled in early medieval England. These Anglo-Saxons are also...
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List of monarchs of Wessex (redirect from King of the West Saxons)
This is a list of monarchs of the Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. While the details of the later monarchs are confirmed by a number of...
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Transylvanian Saxon dialect, dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons in the Moselle Franconian group of West Central German dialects Saxon (disambiguation)...
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Old English (redirect from Anglo-Saxon language)
before the ancestral Angles and Saxons left continental Europe for Britain. More entered the language when the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity...
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Saxon's Lode is a hamlet on the banks of the River Severn in the parish of Ripple, Worcestershire. Saxons Lode Manor House is a historic Grade II listed...
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settlement of Britain around AD 500 Saxon Wars (772–804), a series of wars between the Saxons and the Franks under Charlemagne Saxon revolt of 1073–1075, a rebellion...
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the term. "Anglo-Saxons" is similar to, though not synonymous with, the Russian propaganda phrase "the collective West". "Anglo-Saxons" also has implications...
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle...
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another brief, destructive campaign against the Saxons in 776. This led to the submission of many Saxons, who turned over captives and lands and submitted...
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Saxon of the late 10th and 11th centuries. Due to the Saxons' establishment as a politically dominant force in the Old English period, the West Saxon...
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Freie Sachsen (redirect from Free Saxons)
Freie Sachsen (lit. 'Free Saxons' or 'Free Saxony') is a far-right monarchist, autonomist, and secessionist movement within the German State of Saxony...
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Æthelred I of Wessex (redirect from Æthelred, King of the West Saxons)
Saxonum (King of the West Saxons) in the charter of Ealhswith which he witnessed, and in five of his own. He is "King of the West Saxons and the Men of Kent"...
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South Saxons, the East Saxons and the West Saxons, and distinguishing them from the Angles in the north. Unlike these neighbours, the Middle Saxons did...
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peace. The kings reach an agreement and plan to slay the Saxons on the morrow, but the Saxons get word of this, storm Scithingi during the night and kill...
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