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    Britain from continental Saxons (referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Ealdseaxe, 'old Saxons'), but both the Saxons of Britain and those of Old...
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    Anglo-Saxons were a Christian people with a king anointed by God. The indigenous Common Brittonic speakers referred to Anglo-Saxons as Saxones or possibly...
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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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    Angles Middle Saxons (Middlesex, subsequently absorbed by the Kingdom of Essex) Pecsæte Surrey Tomsæte Wreocensæte Wihtwara Anglo-Saxon England portal...
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    Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British...
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  • Look up Saxon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Saxons were a confederation of Germanic tribes during the Early Middle Ages, and formed part 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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    Wessex (redirect from West Saxons)
    The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until England...
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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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    '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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  • 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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    Alfred the Great (category West Saxon monarchs)
    Ælfred; 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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  • Transylvanian Saxon dialect, dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons in the Moselle Franconian group of West Central German dialects Saxon (disambiguation)...
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    This is a list of monarchs of the Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. For later monarchs, see the List of English monarchs. While the details...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Edward the Elder (category Anglo-Saxon monarchs)
    around 886 Alfred adopted the new title King of the Anglo-Saxons as the ruler of all Anglo-Saxons not subject to Danish rule. Edward inherited the new title...
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    Franks was spent on the eastern frontier, in his first war against the Saxons. Saxons had been engaging in border raiding against the Frankish kingdom when...
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  • up Anglo-Saxon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes that settled in Britain and founded England. Anglo-Saxon may also...
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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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    Freie Sachsen (redirect from Free Saxons)
    Homeland(NPD). The Free Saxons see themselves as an umbrella organization. Chairmen: Martin Kohlmann, founder of the Free Saxons, he is a lawyer and former...
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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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    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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    Dictionary). In the early Middle Ages, following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, the Anglo-Saxons called all Britons Bryttas or Wealas (Welsh), while...
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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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    have similar colour varieties to the Thuringian Colour pigeons but the Saxons are all Muff (feathered) legged. List of pigeon breeds Levi, Wendell (1977)...
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