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  2. Celtic Britons - Wikipedia

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    The Britons (*Pritanī, Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), also known as Celtic Britons [1] or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2]

  3. Tony Britton - Wikipedia

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    In 1962, Britton married Danish sculptor and wartime Danish resistance Eva Castle Britton (née Skytte Birkfeldt). [2] [5] They had one son, actor Jasper Britton. [2] Britton lived in Fiddington, Somerset, in his later years. [2] He died in the London Borough of Hillingdon on 22 December 2019, at the age of 95. [6] [7] [8]

  4. Common Brittonic - Wikipedia

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    Common Brittonic (Welsh: Brythoneg; Cornish: Brythonek; Breton: Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, [4] [5] is a Celtic language historically spoken in Britain and Brittany from which evolved the later and modern Brittonic languages.

  5. King of the Britons - Wikipedia

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    The title King of the Britons (Welsh: Brenin y Brythoniaid, Latin: Rex Britannorum) was used (often retrospectively) to refer to a ruler, especially one who might be regarded as the most powerful, among the Celtic Britons, both before [1] and after [2] the period of Roman Britain up until the Norman invasion of Wales and the Norman conquest of England.

  6. Brittonic languages - Wikipedia

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    Others reflect the presence of Britons such as Dumbarton – from the Scottish Gaelic Dùn Breatainn meaning 'Fort of the Britons', and Walton meaning (in Anglo-Saxon) a tun 'settlement' where the Wealh 'Britons' still lived. The number of Celtic river names in England generally increases from east to west, a map showing these being given by ...

  7. Bretons - Wikipedia

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    Celts: Britons (Cornish, English and Welsh) and Gaels (Irish, Manx and Scots) [6] ... In 1945, Breton speakers consisted about 75% of the population. Today, in all of ...

  8. Breton mythology - Wikipedia

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    Breton mythology is the mythology or corpus of explanatory and heroic tales originating in Brittany.The Bretons are the descendants of insular Britons who settled in Brittany from at least the third century.

  9. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 - Wikipedia

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    Britons charts the emergence of British identity from the Act of Union in 1707 with Scotland and England to the beginning of the Victorian era in 1837. British identity, she argues, was created from four features that both united the Britons and set the nation apart from others: Britain is a Protestant state defined against a largely Catholic ...