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5 dni temu · British Isles, group of islands off the northwestern coast of Europe. The group consists of two main islands, Great Britain and Ireland, and numerous smaller islands and island groups, including the Hebrides, the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Man.
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
Title: British Isles Map Created Date: 1/10/2019 9:22:42 PM
Map: the British Isles xviii Introduction 1 1 The Celtic societies of the British Isles 13 2 The impact of Rome on the British Isles 27 3 The post-Roman centuries 41 4 The Vikings and the fall of the Old Order 60 5 The Norman and post-Norman ascendancy 92 6 The decline of the post-Norman empire 132 7 The making of an English empire 157
The Britons (*Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people 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). They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages.
The names of the Celtic Iron Age tribes in Britain were recorded by Roman and Greek historians and geographers, especially Ptolemy. Information from the distribution of Celtic coins has also shed light on the extents of the territories of the various groups that occupied the island.
19 mar 2015 · By constructing the first fine-scale map of the British Isles, Oxford University researchers have uncovered distinct geographical groupings of genetically similar individuals across the UK. The study, published in the journal Nature, found that: There was no single 'Celtic' genetic group.
