The name most likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French adjective referring to the Atlantic province of Brittany.

Around this time many Britons fled to Brittany ( hence its name ).

Saint Brieuc founded the city that bears his name in Brittany, Saint Colmán founded the great monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy and one of his monks was Saint Gall for whom the Swiss town of St Gallen and canton of St Gallen.

Geoffrey of Monmouth presents this legend to explain the Welsh name for Brittany, Llydaw, as originating from lled-taw or half-silent.

The modern French name for the area, " Bretagne ", or Brittany in English, is a variant of " Britannia ".

Condate was also the Celtic name of Rennes, then the city of the Redones and now the capital of the region of Brittany.

Barry Bradford, an Illinois high-school teacher later famous for helping clear the name of Civil Rights martyr Clyde Kennard, and three students, Allison Nichols, Sarah Siegel, and Brittany Saltiel, joined Mitchell's efforts.

A bardic name is a pseudonym, used in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, by poets and other artists, especially those involved in the eisteddfod movement.

The Seine and Loire are marked in red. Armorica or Aremorica is the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany peninsula and the territory between the Seine and Loire rivers, extending inland to an indeterminate point and down the Atlantic coast.

Taking its name from Cape Breton, the most easterly point of the island which was called after the Bretons of Brittany, the county has what is probably the oldest surviving European name to have been used to designate part of North America.

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 ).

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.

At first he attempts to name the King of France as heir in an act that defies all precedents to maintain Brittany as an independent sovereign state, and the Breton nobles reject this.

After emigration from southwestern Britain to northern Armorica, a sister kingdom also called Domnonia ( Breton: Dumnonea, French: Domnonée ) was established on the continental north Atlantic coast in what became known as Brittany ( Breton: Breizh, French Bretagne, " Britain "), the name of which derives from the French Grande-Bretagne coined to distinguish the island from Bretagne.

She follows some signs-her initials V d ' H written on a door-to Brittany, on this island with the name if not very pleasing ...

Pound cake ( named " quatre-quarts ", which means four-quarters ) is a traditional and popular cake of the French region of Brittany, and as its name implies, uses the same quantity of the four ingredients, but with no added fruit of any kind.

Their name has differed by province and the local dialect: Cagots, Gézitains, Gahets, and Gafets in Gascony ; Agotes, Agotac, and Gafos in Basque country ; Capots in Anjou and Languedoc ; and Cacons, Cahets, Caqueux, and Caquins in Brittany.

Battles occurred, such as in 1380 when Jehan d ' Ust defended the city in the name of John V, Duke of Brittany ( known in France as Jean IV ) against the Castilian fleet during the Hundred Years ' War.

It is the only place in Brittany with a separate name in English.

The saint was born in Wales and may originally have been known as " Mahagw " prior to emigrating to Brittany where he became known by the Latinised form of the name and also as " St Malo ".

In the same year John again talked with Breton nobles about the rights and freedom of Eleanor, but after this expedition John became convinced that he could get nothing from her claim, so he also recognized Alix as duchess of Brittany and never supported Eleanor even in name, and neither did later Henry III.

* Brittany ( name )

The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

The name affirming the consequent derives from the premise Q, which affirms the " then " clause of the conditional premise.

EveR-1's name derives from the Biblical Eve, plus the letter r for robot.

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

The alternative name for the family, Umbelliferae, derives from the inflorescence being generally in the form of a compound umbel.

Their name derives from the Spanish el lagarto, which means " the lizard ".

From Thespis ' name derives the word thespian.

The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.

The actinide series derives its name from the group 3 element actinium.

The name " ablative " derives from the Latin ablatus, the ( irregular ) perfect passive participle of auferre " to carry away ".

Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born on and ruled the island.

The name derives from a Brythonic word Gobannia meaning " river of the blacksmiths ", and relates to the town's pre-Roman importance in iron smelting.

Plant potash lent the name to the element potassium, which was first derived from caustic potash, and also gave potassium its chemical symbol K ( cf German Kalium ), which ultimately derives from alkali.

The city grew along the valleys of the rivers Alcoa and Baça, from which it derives its name.

White suggests that the creature derives from sightings of the worm lizards of the same name.

Some Swedish historians believe the name derives from the cripple secondary god Balder of Nordic mythology.

The name Schwarzwald ( German for " Black Forest ") derives from the Romans who referred to the thickly forested mountains there as Silva Nigra ( Latin for " Black Forest ") because the dense growth of conifers in the forest blocked out most of the light inside the forest.

The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of The Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City.

The name probably derives from the Old English bēd, or prayer ; if Bede was given the name at his birth, then his family had probably always planned for him to enter the clergy.

It derives its name from, and records the visions of, Jeremiah, who lived in Jerusalem in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC during the time of king Josiah and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians, and who subsequently went into exile in Egypt.

It derives its name from, and records the visions of, the 6th century BC priest and prophet Ezekiel.