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  2. British Latin - Wikipedia

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    British Latin or British Vulgar Latin was the Vulgar Latin spoken in Great Britain in the Roman and sub-Roman periods. While Britain formed part of the Roman Empire , Latin became the principal language of the elite and in the urban areas of the more romanised south and east of the island.

  3. List of Latin place names in Britain - Wikipedia

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    Historical Directories, England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919; Hofmann: Lexicon Universale; Notitia Dignitatum: The British Section; Pliny the Elder: the Natural History; Ptolemy: the Geography; Roman Map of Britain; Tacitus: Agricola (English) List of Latin placenames in Britain

  4. Romano-British culture - Wikipedia

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    The term Welsh is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner', referring to the old inhabitants of southern Britain. [21] Historically, Wales and the south-western peninsula were known respectively as North Wales and West Wales. [22] The Celtic north of England and southern Scotland was referred to in Welsh as Hen Ogledd ("old north").

  5. Wales in the Roman era - Wikipedia

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    Wales (along with more distant parts of Britain) gradually stopped making pottery, which usually helps archaeologists explore the distant past, throughout the Iron Age. [7] Archaeological assemblages such as the Wilburton complex suggest that there was trade throughout all of Britain including Wales, connecting with Ireland and Northern France. [7]

  6. Spread of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The Latin script originated in archaic antiquity in the Latium region in central Italy.It is generally held that the Latins, one of many ancient Italic tribes, adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BCE [1] from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy – making the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the time.

  7. Anglo-Latin literature - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Latin literature is literature from originally written in Latin and produced in England or other English-speaking parts of Britain and Ireland. It was written in Medieval Latin , which differs from the earlier Classical Latin and Late Latin .

  8. Latin influence in English - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic tribes who later gave rise to the English language traded and fought with the Latin speaking Roman Empire.Many words for common objects entered the vocabulary of these Germanic people from Latin even before the tribes reached Britain: anchor, butter, camp, cheese, chest, cook, copper, devil, dish, fork, gem, inch, kitchen, mile, mill, mint (coin), noon, pillow, pound (unit of ...

  9. Sub-Roman Britain - Wikipedia

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    Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.The term was originally used to describe archaeological remains found in 5th- and 6th-century AD sites that hinted at the decay of locally made wares from a previous higher standard under the Roman Empire.