Angleterre
Details
- Names
England
Angleterre
Inghilterra
English
Anglia
Britannia maior
Britannia propria
Britannia Romana
- Place Type
- country
- Description
- Area had Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Age cultures; controlled by Rome late 1st century CE; invaded by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who formed kingdoms by the 5th century and from whose Germanic languages English was primarily derived; Vikings invaded in 1016 and the Normans in 1066.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); OED2 on CD-ROM (1994); Orbis Latinus (1971); Rand McNally Atlas (1989); Rand McNally Atlas (1994);
- Active
Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000)
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, active England and Italy, 1599-1641)
Angelica Kauffman (Swiss, 1741-1807)
Nicolas de Largillièrre (French, 1656-1746)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, active England and France, 1834-1903)
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