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The Saxons were Germans who invaded Britain, taking advantage of the Roman withdrawal in the early Fifth Century. They ruled England until beaten by the Normans in 1066. Another group of German invaders called the Angles invaded Great Britain at the same time, which is why the English today are sometimes called Anglo-Saxons. England is named after the Angles.

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The Saxons came from land in what is now Germany (from Saxony) but they would not have called themselves Germans. By most definitions of "nation" that we use today, the Saxons were a tribe or nation called the Saxons.

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The Anglo-Saxons originated in the modern Schleswig area along the Baltic coast. During the 5th Century CE the Saxons spread rapidly through northern Germany and along the coasts of Gaul (France) and Britain. Eventually Saxon rule was ended by Charlemagne in 804 when the Saxons were incorporated into the Frankish empire.

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they are the English

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