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The Saxons were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of northern Germania, in what is now Germany.
Jun 15, 2023 · The Saxons were a Germanic people of the region north of the Elbe River stretching from Holstein (in modern-day Germany) to the North Sea. The Saxons who migrated to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries CE along with the Angles, Frisians, and Jutes came to be known as Anglo-Saxons to differentiate them from those on the continent.
- Joshua J. Mark
Apr 26, 2024 · Saxon, member of a Germanic people who in ancient times lived in the area of modern Schleswig and along the Baltic coast. During the 5th century CE the Saxons spread rapidly through north Germany and along the coasts of Gaul and Britain. Learn more about Saxons in this article.
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The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century.
Jun 16, 2023 · The Saxon Wars (772-804) were a series of conflicts between the Franks under Charlemagne, who sought to conquer Saxony and convert the populace to Christianity, and the Saxons who resisted. The conflict lasted over 30 years through 18 campaigns and cost thousands of lives before Charlemagne's victory in 804 and Saxon conversion/assimilation ...
- Joshua J. Mark
- The Saxon Wars were a series of conflicts between 772-804 between the Franks under Charlemagne, who wanted to convert the Saxons forcibly to Christ...
- The immediate cause of the Saxon Wars was the Saxon destruction of the church at Deventer, modern-day Netherlands, but it is understood that Charle...
- Charlemagne launched 18 military campaigns against the Saxons between 722-804.
- Charlemagne of the Franks won the Saxon Wars after deporting 10,000 Saxons from their homeland and replacing them with Christian Franks.
Saxony, any of several major territories in German history. It has been applied: (1) before 1180 ce, to an extensive far-north German region including Holstein but lying mainly west and southwest of the estuary and lower course of the Elbe River; (2) between 1180 and 1423, to two much smaller and.
May 16, 2024 · Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century CE to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are now in England and Wales. The peoples grouped together as Anglo-Saxons were not politically unified until the 9th century.
