The Angles is a modern term for a Germanic people, who took their name from the region of Angeln, a district located in what is today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

The Angles were one of the main groups that settled in Britain in the post-Roman period, founding several of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England.

Since the Angles took a geographic name, they possibly had other names not based on geography.

The name has also been applied to the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles.

Saxo tells of Dan the first king of Denmark who had a brother named Angul who gave his name to the Angles.

The Angles established Preston ; the name Preston is derived from Old English words meaning " Priest settlement " and in the Domesday Book appears as " Prestune ".

It was the Angles who gave East Anglia its name.

Its name came from Old English Swǣfa hām = " the homestead of the Swabians "; some of them presumably came with the Angles and Saxons.

The Angles re-occupied a 1st century Roman fort on the site of Jarrow in the 5th century Its name is recorded around AD 750 as Gyruum, representing Old English Gyrwum = " the marsh dwellers ", from Anglo-Saxon gyr = " mud ", " marsh ".

The second section of the name refers to Edmund King of the East Angles, who was killed by the Vikings in the year 869.

In one theory the name of the Angles came from Germanic words for " narrow " ( compare German eng = " narrow "), and meant " the people who live beside the Narrow ", i. e. beside the Schlei estuary.

When the intrinsic rotations equivalence is used to name the possible conventions of Euler Angles the names are like Z-X ’- Z ’’.

This name is believed to date from the 7th century, when Angles colonised the region following the Battle of Chester.

The suffix of the Anglo-Saxon name Tadcaster is derived from the borrowed Latin word castra meaning ' fort ', although the Angles and Saxons used it for any walled Roman settlement.

However, it is likely that the name refers to the fact that the Fens and its islands were home to a native British ( Brythonic ) population, and that the Angles were an island community within a predominantly Celtic landscape.

She was a devout Catholic and commended herself to the patron saint of Angles, the Virgin of Los Remedios, promising to name her first daughter after the saint.

The Angles are Germanic-speaking people that took their name from the Angeln cultural region in Germany.

Thus, according to Tacitus, the Aviones lived on the Jutland Peninsula, near the Angles ; if their name is indeed related to islands, they possibly lived on the North Frisian Islands.

Ælfwald's letter reassures Boniface that his name was being remembered by the East Angles: it contains an offer to exchange the names of their dead, so that mutual prayers could be read for them.

Frieston is a name which belongs to the 5th century settlement of Britain by Anglo-Saxons, in this area mainly Angles, but in this case Frisians.

The Old Norse name from which Dringhouses is derived, indicates the villagers were the descendants of Halfdan, the Viking leader who had taken the area from the Angles and had shared the land among his warriors in 876.

Tewin is known to have been settled by the Angles in 449 AD ; the name being a derivative of the Old English words for the Norse god Týr (“ Tiw ”) and meadow (“ Ing ”).

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She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

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Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

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Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

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Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

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