Armorica information

In ancient times, Armorica or Aremorica (Gaulish: Aremorica; Breton: Arvorig [arˈvoːrik]; French: Armorique [aʁmɔʁik]) was a region of Gaul between the...

north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an independent kingdom...

Britons, fleeing the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, settled in west Armorica; the Armorican peninsula was renamed Brittany and Celtic culture was revived...

Baubigny. The peninsula formed part of the Roman geographical area of Armorica. The town known today as Coutances, capital of the Unelli, a Gaulish tribe...

the Belgae from northern Gaul and Britain. Later, Laighin tribes from Armorica (present-day Brittany) were said to have invaded Ireland and Britain more...

of the continental grouping. Breton was brought from Great Britain to Armorica (the ancient name for the coastal region that includes the Brittany peninsula)...

such as The Dream of Macsen Wledig, the post-Roman Celtic speakers of Armorica were colonists from Britain, resulting in the Breton language, a language...

5th-century pre-Congregational saint from the Welsh settlement of Ploufragan in Armorica, later a part of Brittany and France. Klervi was the daughter of Prince...

Slope"). 22 26 February 1790 Côtes-d'Armor 4 Saint-Brieuc Brittany coasts of Armorica 23 26 February 1790 Creuse Guéret  Nouvelle-Aquitaine Creuse (river) 24...

Europe was still attached to Gondwana, including the terranes of Iberia, Armorica (France), Palaeo-Adria (the western Mediterranean area), Bohemia, Franconia...

waves from the 3rd to 9th century (most heavily from 450 to 600) into Armorica, which was subsequently named Brittany after them. The main traditional...

period of emigration from south-western Britain to north-western Gaul (Armorica) in the 5th and 6th centuries, a sister kingdom (Domnonée in modern French)...

describes Uther's father to be Constantine, brother of King Aldroen of Armorica. Uther is best known from Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae (1136) where...

archaeological and other historical evidence and later Breton traditions. Armorica declared independence from the Roman Empire in 407, but contributed archers...

Aremorica or Armorica Veneti – Vannes, in Aremorica or Armorica Viducasses / Vadicasses / Vadicassii – Vieux, in Aremorica or Armorica Mix of several...

decline in the 300s, perhaps worst in Armorica. By 350, after decades of pirate attacks, virtually all villas in Armorica were deserted. Local use of money...

people to settlements in the Orleanais in order to control the bacaudae of Armorica and to keep the Visigoths from expanding their territories northward across...

pigs Moritasgus - Gallic healing god of Alesia Mullo - a Gallic god in Armorica Nemausus - Gallic god of Nîmes Niskus - a Brittonic river god Nodens (Nodons)...

terrane, Armorica which included Iberia, drifted in from Gondwana, trapping Avalonia between it and the continent so adding Iberia/Armorica to Euramerica...

Christian saint of Armorica venerated in the Celtic Brittany region. Urielle was one of the daughters of Hoël III [fr], legendary king of Armorica, and Pritelle...

(roughly between the Rhine and the Seine), the Celtae in the center and in Armorica, and the Aquitani in the southwest, the southeast being already colonized...

languages arose earlier, along the Atlantic coast (including Britain, Ireland, Armorica and Iberia), long before evidence of 'Celtic' culture is found in archaeology...

Siculus and Pliny both suggest trade between the rebel Celtic tribes of Armorica and Iron Age Britain flourished. In 55 BC Julius Caesar invaded, claiming...

potentiatores of the late Empire. A strong element of Alanic cavalry settled in Armorica influenced the fighting style of the Bretons down into the 12th century...