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    In ancient times, Armorica or Aremorica (Gaulish: Aremorica; Breton: Arvorig [arˈvoːrik]; French: Armorique [aʁmɔʁik]) was a region of Gaul between the...
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  • up Armorica in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Armorica is an ancient region of Gaul. Armorica may also refer to: Armorican terrane, or Armorica, a former...
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    Britons, fleeing the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, settled in west Armorica; the Armorican peninsula was renamed Brittany and Celtic culture was revived...
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    the Belgae from northern Gaul and Britain. Later, Laighin tribes from Armorica (present-day Brittany) were said to have invaded Ireland and Britain more...
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    north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an independent kingdom...
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    Slope"). 22 26 February 1790 Côtes-d'Armor 4 Saint-Brieuc Brittany coasts of Armorica 23 26 February 1790 Creuse Guéret  Nouvelle-Aquitaine Creuse (river) 24...
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    Europe was still attached to Gondwana, including the terranes of Iberia, Armorica (France), Palaeo-Adria (the western Mediterranean area), Bohemia, Franconia...
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    languages arose earlier, along the Atlantic coast (including Britain, Ireland, Armorica and Iberia), long before evidence of 'Celtic' culture is found in archaeology...
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    Cotentin Peninsula (category Armorica)
    Baubigny. The peninsula formed part of the Roman geographical area of Armorica. The town known today as Coutances, capital of the Unelli, a Gaulish tribe...
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    eliminating Frankish and Saxon pirates who had been raiding the coasts of Armorica and Belgic Gaul. In the Roman province of Britannia, Saint Patrick was...
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    Siculus and Pliny both suggest trade between the rebel Celtic tribes of Armorica and Iron Age Britain flourished. In 55 BC Julius Caesar invaded, claiming...
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    decline in the 300s, perhaps worst in Armorica. By 350, after decades of pirate attacks, virtually all villas in Armorica were deserted. Local use of money...
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    Soissons Kingdom of the Moors and Romans Kingdom of the Visigoths Kingdom of the Burgundians Kingdom of the Suebi Armorica Alamannia Sub-Roman Britain...
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    waves from the 3rd to 9th century (most heavily from 450 to 600) into Armorica, which was subsequently named Brittany after them. The main traditional...
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    rebellion of the Breton inhabitants of Armorica since he describes how, in the aftermath of the revolt, all of Armorica and the rest of Gaul followed the example...
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    potentiatores of the late Empire. A strong element of Alanic cavalry settled in Armorica influenced the fighting style of the Bretons down into the 12th century...
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    of the litus Saxonicum. During the decline of the Western Roman Empire, Armorica (modern-day Brittany) rebelled from Roman rule under the Bagaudae and in...
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    people to settlements in the Orleanais in order to control the bacaudae of Armorica and to keep the Visigoths from expanding their territories northward across...
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    such as The Dream of Macsen Wledig, the post-Roman Celtic speakers of Armorica were colonists from Britain, resulting in the Breton language, a language...
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    knew this would anger Rome and prepared by allying with the tribes of Armorica, fortifying their hill settlements, and preparing a fleet. The Veneti and...
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    of the continental grouping. Breton was brought from Great Britain to Armorica (the ancient name for the coastal region that includes the Brittany peninsula)...
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    Veneti (Gaul) (category Armorica)
    (Latin: [ˈwɛnɛtiː], Gaulish: Uenetoi) were a Gallic tribe dwelling in Armorica, in the southern part of the Brittany Peninsula, during the Iron Age and...
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  • period of emigration from south-western Britain to north-western Gaul (Armorica) in the 5th and 6th centuries, a sister kingdom (Domnonée in modern French)...
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    at Châlons in 274. A migration of Celts occurred in the 4th century in Armorica. They were led by the legendary king Conan Meriadoc and came from Britain...
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    describes Uther's father to be Constantine, brother of King Aldroen of Armorica. Uther is best known from Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae (1136) where...
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    (roughly between the Rhine and the Seine), the Celtae in the center and in Armorica, and the Aquitani in the southwest, the southeast being already colonized...
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  • and tyrannical King Tewdar (or Teudar), a historical medieval king in Armorica and Cornwall, who, in these plays, has been interpreted as a lampoon of...
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    scattered over Gaul: the Saxons of Bessin, the Britons and the Alans of Armorica and Loire valley or the Taifals of Poitou to name a few prominent ones...
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    Aífe (category Armorica)
    Aífe (Old Irish), spelled Aoife (IPA: [ˈiːfʲə]) in Modern Irish, is a character from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She appears in the sagas Tochmarc...
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