Angles (German:
Angeln, Old English:
Englas, Latin:
Angli) were one of the
Germanic peoples who migrated from continental Germany to
Britain. That land was later called
Engla-lond(In Old English - "Land of the Angles"), thus
England. Thanks to the major influence of the Angles, the people of England are also known as
Anglo-Saxons, and, of course
English. and regions of the
United Kingdom are known by names such as
East Anglia.
A part of the Jutland Peninsula where the Angles originated is still called Angeln today. It is in the Federal Rebublic of Germany, Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein.
Angles[?] is also the name of a commune in the
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département, in
France