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Brittany and Lesser
The name was used in reference to the resettling of the Celts from ' Great Britain ' as opposed to ' Lesser Britain ', the difference between ' La Grande Bretagne ' – Great Britain – and ' La Bretagne ', Brittany.

Brittany and Britain
Bede's account of the early migrations of the Angles and Saxons to England omits any mention of a movement of those peoples across the channel from Britain to Brittany described by Procopius, who was writing in the sixth century.
It comes from a Brythonic language community ( see image ) that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica ( present-day Brittany ) and which had even established a toehold in Galicia ( in present-day Spain ).
This perhaps reflects the influence of widespread oral traditions common by 800 which are recorded in various place names and features such as Arthur's Seat indicating Arthur was a hero known and associated with many locations across Brittonic areas of Britain as well as Brittany.
Imports to Britain included: coin ; pottery, particularly red-gloss terra sigillata ( samian ware ) from southern, central and eastern Gaul, as well as various other wares from Gaul and the Rhine provinces ; olive oil from southern Spain in amphorae ; wine from Gaul in amphorae and barrels ; salted fish products from the western Mediterranean and Brittany in barrels and amphorae ; preserved olives from southern Spain in amphorae ; lava querns from Mayen on the middle Rhine ; glass ; and some agricultural products.
Late that summer, having subdued two other tribes, he crossed into Britain, claiming that the Britons had aided one of his enemies the previous year possibly the Veneti of Brittany.
Migration from south-west Britain to Brittany.
Pescennius Niger mopped up the deserters in Gaul in a military campaign, and a revolt in Brittany was put down by two legions brought over from Britain.
Starting in the 5th century, Bretons occupied the western part of the Armorican peninsula, which started to be called Little Britain, and then Brittany, while the Franks took the rest of Armorica.
Before departing to Rome, he summoned Conanus, the rebellious nephew of Octavius, and asked him to rule as king of the land, which was renamed Brittany, or ' Little Britain '.
The name of Brittany derives from settlers from Great Britain, who fled that island in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England between the fifth and seventh centuries.
* Gillian Bradshaw, a classical scholar, writes historical fiction set in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Duchy of Brittany, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain.
The first agents of the Free French to arrive from Britain landed on the Brittany coast as early as July 1940.
Caradoc, presumably writing at Llancarfan in Wales, does not mention any connection with Brittany, and some scholars, most notably Frank Reno, think that Gildas of Britain and Gildas of Rhuys were distinct personages.
Geoffrey states that Britain was in civil crisis after the death of Gracianus, so the people called for help from their cousins in Brittany.
The contemporary king of Brittany, Aldroenus, did not wish to rule both Brittany and Britain, and so sent his brother to rule instead as Constantine II.
In Ireland, Great Britain and Brittany it also breeds on coastal sea cliffs, feeding on adjacent short grazed grassland or machair.
These birds are mountain specialists, although Red-billed Chough also uses coastal sea cliffs in Ireland, Great Britain, and Brittany, feeding on adjacent short grazed grassland or machair ; the small population on La Palma, one of the Canary Islands, is also coastal.
It is not clear whether Jordanes ' " Britons " refers to the Britons of Great Britain itself, or of Armorica, which was undergoing significant British settlement and later came to be known as Brittany.
The distinction between insular and continental Britons may not have had very much meaning at the time, as ecclesiastics such as St. Winwaloe were associated with Brittany and Great Britain alike, and King Mark (' Hound of the Sea ') apparently ruled Britons / Bretons on both sides of the English Channel.
The Old Breton name Riatam, which ( like Riothamus ) is derived from Brittonic * Rigotamos, appears in medieval Breton records ( primarily biographies of early Breton saints ) as one of the Princes of Domnonée ( a coastal region in Brittany which takes its name from Dumnonia in southern Britain ).
Menhirs are widely distributed across Europe, Africa and Asia, but are most numerous in Western Europe ; in particular in Ireland, Great Britain and Brittany.
At the end of the Roman period, between the 4th and 6th centuries, northern Brittany saw substantial migration by members of the Briton tribe from neighbouring Britain, ultimately contributing to Brittany's name.

Brittany and region
Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg, the Breton language agency, was set up in 1999 by the Brittany region to promote and develop the use of Breton
Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg, the Breton language agency, was set up in 1999 by the Brittany region to promote and develop the use of Breton.
Examples: Liberia, Chile, Uruguay and the French region of Brittany.
Henry II planned to divide his and his wife's territories between their sons, of which there were three at the time ; Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine from his mother and become Count of Poitiers, and Geoffrey would get Brittany through marriage alliance with Constance, the heiress to the region.
Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.
The Greens were strong electorally in urban areas, specifically in the Greater Paris area, Brittany and western France, parts of the Rhône-Alpes region and Alsace.
Brest Bretagne Airport, main airport of the Brittany ( administrative region ) | region of Brittany
Brest international airport is the main airport of the region of Brittany in terms passager traffic with 45 % of this traffic of the region, representing 919, 404 passengers in 2010.
The region of Brittany is made up of 80 % of the former Duchy and Province of Brittany.
The remaining 20 % of the province is the Loire-Atlantique department which now lies inside the Pays de la Loire region, whose capital, Nantes, was the historical capital of the Duchy of Brittany.
Some people in Brittany and Nantes continue to protest against the division of the ancient territory of Brittany, hoping to see the Loire-Atlantique department added to the region of Brittany, in order to reunify the historic area of Brittany.
However, such a reunification raises other questions: first, what to do with the remainder of the present Pays de la Loire region, and second, which city should be chosen as the capital of such a reunified Brittany.
Condate was also the Celtic name of Rennes, then the city of the Redones and now the capital of the region of Brittany.
The other 80 % of Brittany make up the region of Brittany
A galette bretonne ( or galette breton ) is a large thin pancake made of buckwheat flour, mostly associated with the region of Brittany in France.

Brittany and France
Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.
* 1532 – the Duchy of Brittany is united to the Kingdom of France.
* Bangor, Morbihan, Brittany, France
Breton () is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany (; ), France.
Bodmin is twinned with Bederkesa in Germany ; Grass Valley, in California, United States ; and Le Relecq-Kerhuon ( Ar Releg-Kerhuon in Brittany, France.
The Battle of Bouvines, which took place on 27 July 1214, was a medieval battle ending the twelve year old Angevin-Flanders War that was fundamental in the early development of France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy.
One of the earliest references to couscous in France is in Brittany, in a letter dated January 12, 1699.
More French settlers, primarily from the Vienne, Normandie, and Brittany regions of France, continued to populate the colony of Acadia during the latter part of the 17th and early part of the 18th centuries.
* Breizh Cola is a local brand from Brittany ( France ).
Amongst the vast Neolithic collections of the Carnac stones in Brittany, France, several dozen dolmens are found.
In France, important megalithic zones are situated in Brittany, Vendée, Quercy and in the south of France ( Languedoc, Rouergue and Corsica ).
From 1487 to 1491, France attacked and defeated Brittany, an independent duchy.
In 1532, Brittany was incorporated into the Kingdom of France.
* 1490 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of Lese-majesty.
* 1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
* Brittany, France
He drowned in 1924 while swimming off the coast of Brittany, France, near Batz-sur-Mer, and is buried there.
Philip, again acting as John's liege lord, summoned his vassal to appear before the Court of the Twelve Peers of France, to answer for the murder of Arthur of Brittany.
A teenage boy buried approximately 1550 BC was raised near the Mediterranean Sea ; a metal worker from 2300 BC dubbed the " Amesbury Archer " grew up near the alpine foothills of Germany ; and the " Boscombe Bowmen " probably arrived from Wales or Brittany, France.
Dickson was born on 3 August 1860 in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France.
The fleet carried an invasion force that included, in addition to troops from William's own territories of Normandy and Maine, large numbers of mercenaries, allies and volunteers from Brittany, northeastern France and Flanders, together with smaller numbers from other parts of Europe.
A yacht in Lorient, Brittany, France
The King of Brittany takes the oath to the King of France ( but not an hommage lige which would be an allegiance ).

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