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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Fact of the Day: Angle Land
England's name is derived from the Old English "Englaland" which meant "land of the Angles". The Angles were a local Germanic tribe who set the foundations of the nation's early history.
that's why the old name was Anglia :)
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