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  2. Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain - Wikipedia

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    A 2022 study focusing specifically on the question of the Anglo-Saxon settlement sampled 460 individuals from England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, dated between approximately 200 and 1300 CE, and compared these with other modern and ancient sample sets.

  3. History of Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    The Normans persecuted the Anglo-Saxons and overthrew their ruling class to substitute their own leaders to oversee and rule England. [1] However, Anglo-Saxon identity survived beyond the Norman Conquest, [2] came to be known as Englishry under Norman rule, and through social and cultural integration with Romano-British Celts, Danes and Normans ...

  4. History of York - Wikipedia

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    After the war, York slowly regained its former pre-eminence in the North, and, by 1660, was the third-largest city in England after London and Norwich. In 1686 the Bar Convent was founded, in secret due to anti-catholic Laws, making it the oldest surviving convent in England. York elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons.

  5. Anglo-Saxons - Wikipedia

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    Heinrich Härke suggests this change was the result of the changing structure of society and especially in ethnicity and assimilation, implying the lowering of ethnic boundaries in the Anglo-Saxon settlement areas of England towards a common culture. [93] The word bead comes from the Anglo-Saxon words bidden (to pray) and bede (prayer). The ...

  6. History of England - Wikipedia

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    The end of Roman rule in Britain facilitated the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, which historians often regard as the origin of England and of the English people. The Anglo-Saxons, a collection of various Germanic peoples, established several kingdoms that became the primary powers in present-day England and parts of southern Scotland. [3]

  7. Anglo-Saxon migrationism - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Saxon migrationism is the school of thought that holds that the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain was driven by a large scale migration of Germanic speakers from present day north Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands into Roman Britain with the consequent extermination, expulsion and enslavement of the Romano-Britons.

  8. Danelaw - Wikipedia

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    The Danelaw (/ ˈ d eɪ n ˌ l ɔː /, Danish: Danelagen; Norwegian: Danelagen; Old English: Dena lagu) [2] was the part of England between the early tenth century and the Norman Conquest under Anglo-Saxon rule in which Danish laws applied. [3]

  9. Government in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Saxon societies were based on Germanic law and custom. Germanic tribes such as the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, and Lombards became Romanized to varying degrees by the 5th century. Nevertheless, this was not true of the Anglo-Saxons, who originated from northern Germany and Denmark and had no direct contact with the Roman Empire.