Angles
a Low German tribe, who, in the earliest historical period, had their seats in the district about Angeln, in the Duchy of Schleswig, and who in the 5th century and subsequently crossed over ANGLESEY to Britain along with bands of Saxons and Jutes (and probably Frisians also), and colonized a great part of what from them has received the name of England, as well as a portion of the lowlands of Scotland.
The Angles formed the largest body among the Germanic settlers in Britain, and founded the three kingdoms of East Anglia , Mercia, and Northumbria.
ANGLESEY (ang'gl-se), or ANGLE- SEA ("the Angles' island"), an island ("the Angles island"), an island and county of north Wales, in the Irish Sea, separated from the mainland by 20 miles long and 17 miles broad; area, 275 square miles. The chief agricultural products are oats and barley, wheat, rye , potatoes, and turnips.
Numbers of cattle and sheep are raised.
Anglesey yields a little copper, lead, silver, ochre, etc. The chief market-towns , Llangefni, and Amlwch. The county returns one member to Parliament. Pop. about 51,000.