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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 nesoi, Πρετανικαι νησοι, a group of islands off the coast of North-Western Europe. In the 1st century … Continue reading

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