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At 23:40 2.4.2004 +0000, rodlox wrote:
um, didn't the Romans enter Britannia centuries before the Anglo- Saxons and Normans created "Britain"?
Actually _Brittannia_ was the Latin name of the island
straight from Roman times up to modern. The use of
'Britain' as a national designation is merely a modern
recycling of the Latin name since the whole island came
under a single monarchy. BTW the _Brittanni_ are by no
means all gone; they live on if not all happily in both
Wales and Brittanny, and _Wealh_ is simply the Old English
form of the Germanic word for 'Celt', which was later
extended to include Romans.
As for the Kurds a late immigration is highly improbable
on linguistic grounds, since their language constitutes
a distinctive branch of Iranian. Their area of settlement
has probably both grown and shrunk several times since
Antiquity, but that's another matter. The mountains of
eastern Anatolia has certainly been inhabited by the
same ethno-linguistic group for at least three millennia.
/BP 8^)
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