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Nov 2, 2016 · Caledonia – The Latin name given to the northern part of Britannia which is now called Scotland. Cymru – The Welsh language name for Wales. Ulster – The northern, UK part of the island of Ireland (the independent Republic of Ireland is the bottom part).
The Latin name Britannia re-entered the language through the Old French Bretaigne. The use of Britons for the inhabitants of Great Britain is derived from the Old French bretun , the term for the people and language of Brittany , itself derived from Latin and Greek, e.g. the Βρίττωνες of Procopius . [ 28 ]
A hundred years later the Act of Union of 1801 joined Ireland to 'Great Britain' and the name "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" was first used. (Since 1921 only Northern Ireland has been part of the United Kingdom and so the name changed). Find out more by visiting our Union Flag pages. Other pages on the same theme
Oct 27, 2024 · The Roman occupation of Britain during the first four centuries ad left little mark on place names, for it is clear that Latin was mainly the official written language of government and administration rather than the spoken language of the countryside.
In Ulster, the ruling or dominant population of a large belt of territory, extending from Carlingford Loch to the mouth of the Bann, is named in the Annals both by the Latin name Picti, and its Irish equivalent Cruithni or Cruithin, which is the Irish form corresponding to Pretani.
The earliest of these was the late tenth century Latin chronicler Aethelweard of Wessex. After looking into the continental origins of the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, he notes that the land earlier called Britannia had taken its present name Anglia from one of the victorious invaders, the Angli : “ Britannia is now called Anglia ...
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Nov 22, 2017 · It is possibly significant that: -Britain was only permanently occupied by the Romans from 43 AD, a century or more later than e.g. Gaul, Spain or northern Italy. Roman rule in Britain seems to have ended abruptly around 410 AD, earlier than most of the rest of the Western Empire.
