Talk:Angeln

Nomenclature

One or two editors seem to have different ideas about how different nations name the area. If there is any disagreement with the current version, please discuss this here (with source references) before changing again. Thanks! Caravaca 10:00, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

England != Narrow Land

The text currently states that England means Narrow land. This is wrong. It makes sense linguistically, but isn't actually what that name refers to; as stated elsewhere in the text, England was named for the Angles who established kingdoms there, so the word is actually a contraction of Angleland, land of the Angles. This is evident from England's history; more evidence is the Dutch name for England, Engeland, not England, which it would be if it meant "narrow land". There is nothing narrow about England, anyway. Rp (talk) 13:56, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Need another map to explain the first map

I looked at the map and don't recognize there Anglia is in Germany. Can someone please make a larger map to locate Anglia within Germany? I also searched for Anglia, Germany, in Google Maps and couldn't find it. The article says Anglia is a small peninsula on the Jutland peninsula. I thought Jutland was in Denmark. What gives? DBlomgren (talk) 17:52, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Angeln is in the part of Jutland that is German today: [1]. I'm not sure whether Jutland's southern border is widely agreed on. Rp (talk) 15:48, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Why not "Angeln"?

What is the precedence for calling this region "Anglia" in Modern English rather than "Angeln"? All English Language maps and tourist guides that I've found with a preliminary web-search refer to the region as "Angeln", so this would seem to be the commonly-used English name. Why exactly have Wikipedia editors decided to call this region "Anglia", other than: "Oh, 'East Anglia' has the same etymological root so let's call this place Anglia too"? I think the title should be "Angeln", with "Anglia" given as an alternative in the introductory text, if there is some usage of the latter. Farry (talk) 07:36, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

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Requested move 14 June 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Speedy moved per WP:TITLECHANGES. Anyone may start an RM in the opposite direction. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:59, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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Anglia (peninsula) → Angeln – I'm not sure what the basis is for Latinizing the name of the peninsula to Anglia (a change that was introduced via an undiscussed move in 2018). The region is referred to as Angeln in the Oxford World Encyclopedia, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the Baedeker Guide to Northern Germany. Even Latin sources such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History use Angulus rather than Anglia. Zacwill (talk) 16:32, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.