The Normans were not a homogeneous group springing from Scandinavian stock, but mostly hailed from a region of France known as Normandy. The Normans who invaded England did it with a strong contingent from a wide cross-section of north western and central France, from Maine, Anjou, Brittany, Flanders, Poitou and "France" (now known as Ile-de-France), accounting for more than a quarter of the army at Hastings. In terms of culture, these non-Normans represented the Northern French civilisation, mostly speaking only French or other Langues d'oïl.