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    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 oldest...
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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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    Angles Middle Saxons (Middlesex, subsequently absorbed by the Kingdom of Essex) Pecsæte Surrey Tomsæte Wreocensæte Wihtwara Anglo-Saxon England portal...
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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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  • 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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    '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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    [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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    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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  • Transylvanian Saxon dialect, dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons in the Moselle Franconian group of West Central German dialects Saxon (disambiguation)...
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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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    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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    overlordship over the East Saxons at the time. After this, a bishopric was set up by Mellitus in London which was part of the East Saxon kingdom at the time...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    with the Saxons deteriorated before the end of the year. According to a scholarly theory, the conflict emerged after Vlad forbade the Saxons to enter...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    known to the historical record as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. From the 5th century, the Anglo-Saxons settled Britain as the Roman economy and administration...
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