Britain

The word Britain is an informal term used to refer to; the island of Great Britain which consists of the nations of England, Scotland and Wales. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or UK, sometimes the Roman province called "Britain" or "Britannia" The word British generally means belonging to or associated with Britain in one of the first two senses above (i.e. the United Kingdom or the island of Great Britain). However, the term has a range of related usages, a ...

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Britain: Encyclopedia II - Britain - Britain and Brittany The original reference seems to have been to the territory in which the Brythonic languages were spoken, which more or less coincided with the Roman province of Britannia, an area equivalent to modern England, Wales and southern Scotland. In the Early Middle Ages speakers of a Brythonic language which later evolved into Breton migrated from Cornwall to Armorica, Western France, possibly because of pressure from Saxon invasions. This is why different forms of the same name apply to insular Britain and continental Brittany. In French the similarity is even more obvi ...

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Prehistoric Britain - Mesolithic

Prehistoric Britain - The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition

Britain: Encyclopedia - Battle of Britain

A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name for the attempt by Germany's Luftwaffe, the German airforce, to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF). Neither Hitler nor the German Wehrmacht perceived it possible to carry out a successful amphibious assault on the British Isles until the RAF had been knocked out. Secondary objectives were to destroy aircraft production and to terrorise the British people with the intent of intimidating them into seeking an armistice or surrender. The campaign was launched as preparation for ...

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Britain: Encyclopedia - Britain Yearly Meeting

Britain Yearly Meeting is the umbrella body for the Religious Society of Friends in Britain (England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man). It is among the many yearly meetings of Friends around the world. Britain Yearly Meeting, which until 1995 was known as London Yearly Meeting, grew out of various national and regional meetings of Friends in the 1650s and 1660s and has met annually since 1668. Britain Yearly Meeting - BYM as an organisation. Britain Yearly Meeting corre ...

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Britain: Encyclopedia - West New Britain

West New Britain is a province of Papua New Guinea on the islands of New Britain. The provincial capital is Kimbe. The area of the province in 21,000 km2, and there are 184,508 inhabitants (2000 census). West New Britain produces palm oil for export. There are seven major tribes, the Nakanai, Bakovi, Kove, Unea, Maleu, Kaulong and Arowe, speaking a total of about 25 languages. West New Britain - External link. Tourism West New Britain ...

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Britain: Encyclopedia - Constantine III of Britain

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, a fictional account of the rulers of Great Britain, Constantine III was a legendary king of the Britons. He was the son of Cador of Cornwall, a relative of King Arthur. Constantine fought in the Battle of Camlann and was apparently one of the few survivors. Arthur, about to be taken to Avalon, passed the crown to him. Geoffrey says that Constantine continued to have trouble from the Saxons and from the two sons of Mordred (see Melehan and Melou). He eventually subdued ...

Britain: Encyclopedia - Anne of Great Britain

Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) became Queen of England, Queen of Scotland and Queen of Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, when England and Scotland combined into a single Kingdom, Anne became the first sovereign of Great Britain. She continued to reign until her death. Anne was the last monarch of the House of Stuart; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, George I, of the House of Hanover. Anne's life was marked by many crises relating to succession to the Crown. Her Roman Catholic father, James II, had been for ...

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Britain: Encyclopedia - Matter of Britain

Arthurian legend or the Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of the British Isles, especially those centering around King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. The twelfth century French poet Jean Bodel created the name in a chanson de geste he wrote, the Chanson de Saisnes, in which appear the lines: Ne sont que iii matières à nul homme atandant, De France et de Bretaigne, et de Rome la grant. (There are but 3 literary cycles that no one should be without: the ...

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Matter of Britain - Themes and subjects

Matter of Britain - Characters and subjects

Matter of Britain - Noteworthy authors

Matter of Britain - References and sources

Britain: Encyclopedia - Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state located in Western Europe, from 1707 to 1800. It was created by the merging of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to create a single kingdom encompassing the whole of the island of Great Britain. A new, single parliament and government, based in Westminster in London, controlled the new kingdom. The two former kingdoms had shared the same monarch since Ki ...

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Kingdom of Great Britain - Monarchs of Great Britain

Britain: Encyclopedia - Catholic Church in Great Britain

The Catholic Church in Great Britain is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, sometimes known as the Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual government and teaching of the Pope and Catholic Bishops throughout the world. The Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian denomination, and its largest religious grouping. There are an estimated 5 million baptised Catholics in Great Britain. A majority of British Catholics are descended from various waves of Irish immigrants to Britain in the nineteenth century as well as mor ...

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Catholic Church in Great Britain - History of Catholicism in Britain

Catholic Church in Great Britain - Catholicism in Scotland

Catholic Church in Great Britain - Hierarchy

Britain: Encyclopedia - Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. Communist Party of Great Britain - Formation. The party was founded in 1920 after the Third International decided that greater attempts should be made to establish communist parties across the world. The CPGB was formed by the merger of several smaller Marxist parties: the British Socialist Party, the Communist Unity Group of the Socialist Labour Party and the South Wales Socialist Socie ...

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Britain: Encyclopedia II - Roman Britain - Sub-Roman Britain

Britain came under increasing pressure from barbarian attack on all sides towards the end of the 4th century, and troops were too few to mount an effective defence. The army rebelled and, after elevating two disappointing usurpers, chose a soldier, Constantine III, to become Emperor in 407. He soon crossed to Gaul with an army, to be defeated by Theodosius I; it is unclear how many troops remained or ever returned, nor whether a commander-in-chief in Britain was ever reappointed. A Saxon incursion in 408 was apparently repelled by the Briton ...

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