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Location of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes before their migrations to Britain.

The Angles were a dominant Germanic tribe in the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, and gave their name to the English, England and to the region of East Anglia. Originally from Angeln, present-day Schleswig-Holstein, a legendary list of their kings has been preserved in the heroic poems Widsith and Beowulf, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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Kings of the Angles

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The Angles were a dominant Germanic tribe in the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, and gave their name to the English, England and to the region of East...

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List of monarchs of Mercia

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kings of the Angles. For their successors see List of English monarchs. The traditional rulers of Mercia were known as the Iclingas, descendants of the...

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Lists of ancient kings

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of kings of Munster List of kings of Meath List of Frankish kings Kings of the Burgundians List of kings of the Lombards Kings of the Angles List of Anglo-Saxon...

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List of monarchs of East Anglia

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The Kingdom of East Anglia, also known as the Kingdom of the East Angles, was a small independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom that comprised what are now the...

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Mercia

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kings of the Angles). The first kings of Mercia were pagans, and they resisted the encroachment of Christianity longer than other kingdoms in the Anglo-Saxon...

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Iclingas

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Press. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-1-84383-068-9. Retrieved 5 December 2012. List of monarchs of Mercia Kings of the Angles Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies Wuffingas...

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Kingdom of East Anglia

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The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a...

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List of monarchs of Northumbria

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kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira. The two were...

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Lists of monarchs in the British Isles

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Isle of Man. King of the Britons Legendary kings of Britain List of British monarchs, since 1707 England Bretwaldas / Heptarchy Angles Bernicia Deira East...

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History of monarchy in Canada

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the present Canadian monarchy can trace itself back to the Anglo-Saxon period and ultimately to the kings of the Angles and the early Scottish kings;...

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List of English monarchs

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This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon...

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Edmund the Martyr

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reign. The letters AN, standing for 'Anglia', appear on the coins of only Edmund and Æthelstan, another 9th century king of the East Angles; the letters...

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Kings Island

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Kings Island is a 364-acre (147 ha) amusement park located 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by...

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Middle Angles

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The Middle Angles were an important ethnic or cultural group within the larger kingdom of Mercia in England in the Anglo-Saxon period. It is likely that...

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Wuffa of East Anglia

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suggests that Wuffa ruled the East Angles around 575. Bede named Wuffa as the grandfather of Rædwald, "from whom the East Anglian kings are called Wuffingas"...

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England

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during the 19th century. The name "England" is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means "land of the Angles". The Angles were one of the Germanic...

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Kings Row

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Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan and Betty Field that tells a story of young people growing up in a small...

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Wehha of East Anglia

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of East Anglia is listed by Anglo-Saxon records as a king of the East Angles. If he existed, Wehha ruled the East Angles as a pagan king during the 6th...

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Offa of Angel

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semi-legendary king of the Angles in the genealogy of the kings of Mercia presented in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. He is the son of Wermund and the father of Angeltheow...

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Bernicia

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area from the time of the Roman retreat from Britain and before the arrival of the Angles. Important Anglian centres in Bernicia bear names of British origin...

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Anna of East Anglia

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king of East Anglia from the early 640s until his death. He was a member of the Wuffingas family, the ruling dynasty of the East Angles, and one of the three...

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The Strokes

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hiatus, they released Angles (2011) and Comedown Machine (2013) to generally positive receptions but dwindling sales. Following the end of their initial contract...

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Icel of Mercia

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possible king of Mercia. He was supposedly the son of Eomer (443–489), last King of the Angles in Angeln. Icel supposedly led his people across the North Sea...

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Tytila of East Anglia

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December 2011. Lapidge, M.; et al., eds. (1999). "Kings of the East Angles". The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. London: Blackwell. pp. 508–509...

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Heptarchy

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Wihtwara, a Jutish kingdom on the Isle of Wight, originally as important as the Cantwara of Kent; the Middle Angles, a group of tribes based around modern...

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