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God bless Pretania, the 6,000 British Isles

The first writer to use a form of our name was the Greek explorer and geographer Pytheas in the 4th century BC. Pytheas referred to Prettanike, Πρετανικαι νησοι, or Brettaniai, a group of islands off the coast of North-Western Europe. In the … Continue reading

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