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Saxons

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  1. Their modern-day descendants in northern Germany are considered ethnic Germans; those in the eastern Netherlands are considered to be ethnic Dutch; those in north eastern Belgium are considered to be ethnic Flemish; and those in southern England ethn

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  2. Their earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein

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  3. participated in the Germanic settlement of Britain during and after the 5th century

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  4. It is unknown how many migrated from the continent to Britain though estimates for the total number of Germanic settlers vary between 10,000-200,000

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  5. The word 'Saxon' is believed to be derived from the word seax, meaning a variety of single-edged knives

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