Why do we say English are Anglo-Saxons?

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Didnt the Normans do to Anglo Saxons what Anglo-Saxons did to Romans? why do we consider English Anglo-Saxons but not Romans? Both got invasions that ended their rules

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The Romans settled in England, but most of them returned to the Roman empire when the Roman army withdrew, then the tribes of Angles and Saxons invaded and settled through England, killing or driving all the inhabitants into Wales and other extremes of the UK. When the Normans invaded and conquered the Saxons they didn’t wipe out the Saxons except for the area around York. The Normans just adopted the role of Barons and administrators and governed the Saxons.

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