RE: DeepSeek China...27 Jan 2025 19:15
MV
Great Britain used to be called Britain, after the Brythonic people who lived there. The Romans called it Britannia.
During the Danish invasions of the 4th to 7th centuries, a number of native Britons decided to go across the Channel and settle on a peninsular called Armorica.
This peninsular subsequently also became known as Britain, or now Bretagne in French, because it was now mostly populated by Britons.
So now we had two places called Britain. It made sense to call the bigger one Great Britain (“great” as in “big”).