Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Normans

​NORMANS (literally “north-men”), the descendants of the Northmen who established themselves in northern France, hence called Normandy. Besides the important place occupied in history by the Normans in Normandy and England, bands of Normans established themselves in S. Italy and Sicily, and Norman princes ruled there from the middle of the 11th till the end of the 12th century.

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