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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ARMORICA (AREMORICA)

ARMORICA (AREMORICA) , the See also:

ROMAN

Roman name, derived from two See also:

CELTIC

Celtic words meaning the " seaside " (ar, on, and mor, See also:

sea), for the See also:

LAND

land of the Armorici, roughly the See also:

peninsula of See also:

BRITTANY

Brittany. At the See also:

time of the Roman advance on See also:

Gaul there were five See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal tribes in Armorica, the Namneti, the See also:

VENETI

Veneti, the Osismii, the Curiosolitae and the Redones. It was subdued by See also:

Caesar, who entirely destroyed the seafaring tribe of its See also:

south See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, the Veneti. Under the See also:

EMPIRE

Empire it formed See also:

PART

part of the See also:

province of Gallia Lugudunensis (Lugdunensis). It contained hardly any towns, though many large See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country houses, and was perhaps less Romanized than the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of Gaul. In and after the later part of the 5th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century it received many Celtic immigrants from the See also:

BRITISH

British Isles, fleeing (it is said) from the See also:

SAXONS

Saxons; and the Celtic See also:

DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect which the Bretons still speak is thought to owe its origin to these immigrants.

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