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- Brittonic word for Great Britain, Pretanī, which also produced the Gr**** form Prettanike or Brettaniai. In the 2nd century, Roman Britannia came to be personified...
- this island group. By 50 BC, Gr**** geographers were using equivalents of Prettanikē as a collective name for the British Isles. However, with the Roman conquest...
- Sicily and Strabo who quote Pytheas' use of variants such as Πρεττανική (Prettanikē), "The Britannic [land, island]", and nēsoi brettaniai, "Britannic islands"...
- Britain and Ireland). Pytheas's grasp of the νῆσος Πρεττανική (nēsos Prettanikē, "Prettanic island") is somewhat blurry, and appears to include anything...
- peoples of what are today England, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man of Prettanike were called the Πρεττανοί (Prettanoi), Priteni, Pritani or Pretani. The...
- 325–320 BC) have survived. In the 1st century BC, Diodorus Siculus has Prettanikē nēsos, "the British Island", and Prettanoi, "the Britons", describes Julius...
- province of Britain. This word derives from a Gr**** word, Πρεττανική (Prettanikḗ) or Βρεττανίαι (Brettaníai), used by Pytheas, an explorer from M****alia...
- Sicily and Strabo who quote Pytheas' use of variants such as πρεττανική (Prettanikē), "The Britannic [land, island]", and νησοι βρεττανιαι (nēsoi brettaniai)...
- who first transliterated the local word for the islands into the Gr**** Prettanikē. Pytheas may have taken his name for the inhabitants from the name Pretani...
- Strabo is consistent in spelling the island Britain (transliterated) as Prettanikē; he uses the terms Prettans or Brettans loosely to refer to the islands...