What the records say
- When
- 5th century – 7th century
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 51.37° N, 1.68° W
- Description
- process which changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic
Placed at the middle of related events.
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
The settlement of Great Britain by Germanic peoples from continental Europe led to the development of an Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and a shared Germanic language, Old English, whose closest known relative was Old Frisian, spoken on the other side of the North Sea.
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