Anglo Saxon

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Historically, the name Anglo-Saxon means a Germanic people of northern Europe , from tribes Germano - Scandinavian ( Angles , Jutes and Saxons ) who invaded the island in the current Great Britain from the ^fifth century , he also refers to the Anglo-Saxon language also called Old English , which is the language spoken by the Germanic tribes before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

In a modern context, the term also refers to Anglo-Saxon:

• the English , and more broadly the speakers English with English origins.
• the Anglo-Saxon world , of all people and countries that have a historical relationship with the former British colonial empire and the English culture, and of British origin, one finds including the U.S. , the Canada , the Australia and the New Zealand. The South Africa is sometimes regarded as belonging to this space, although the term is used especially for countries populated predominantly white , although a minority proportion of the population is Anglo-Saxon descent.

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