For the journal, see Brittonia (journal). For the plant genus, see Brittonia (genus).
Britonia (which became Bretoña in Galician and Spanish) is the name of a Romano-British settlement on the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. The area is roughly that of the northern parts of the modern provinces of A Coruña and Lugo in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
Britonia (which became Bretoña in Galician and Spanish) is the name of a Romano-British settlement on the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula at the...
significant colonies in Brittany (now part of France), the Channel Islands, and Britonia (now part of Galicia, Spain). By the 11th century, Brittonic-speaking populations...
Mailoc or Maeloc was a 6th-century bishop of Britonia, a settlement founded by migrating Britons in Galicia, Spain. He represented his diocese, referred...
Susa of Britonia (fl. 653) was a medieval Britonian priest and bishop in Galicia. (in Spanish) Official web site of the Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol v t...
Sonna of Britonia (?–646–?) was a medieval Britonian priest in Galicia who signed at the Seventh Council of Toledo. The Catholic Encyclopedia 1913 - Some...
Bela of Britonia (? - 675 - ?) was a medieval Galician clergyman. Episcopologio Mindoniense. CAL PARDO, Enrique, 2003, ISBN 84-933023-1-7. (in Spanish)...
ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0. Kneale, Victor (2006). "Ellan Vannin (Isle of Man). Britonia". In Koch, John T. (ed.). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa...
France and north western Spain and forged the colonies of Brittany and Britonia. Brittany remained independent of France until the early 16th century and...
addition, the term was also applied to Brittany in what is today France and Britonia in north west Spain, both regions having been colonised in the 5th century...
called Britonia up until the 11th century, comprising the modern municipalities of A Capela and Moeche. Several other places were called Britonia in the...
Royal Council of Braga in 572. The ancient territory of the diocese of Britonia Most of what is known about the settlement comes from ecclesiastical sources;...
century. He served as bishop of Britonia, and represented his see at the Fourth Council of Toledo in 633. The diocese of Britonia had been established for the...
discipline and decreed uniformity of liturgy throughout the kingdom. The Britonia of Galicia accepted the Latin liturgical rite. The "twelfth" council in...
6th centuries) fleeing by sea from the British Isles (see Bishop Maeloc, Britonia and San Martiño de Mondoñedo). It has 9800 inhabitants. It borders the...
Brittonic speech to the continent, most significantly in Brittany and Britonia. During the next few centuries, in much of Britain the language was replaced...
Young, Simon (2002). Britonia : camiños novos. [Noia, A Coruña]: Toxosoutos. ISBN 84-95622-58-0. Koch, John T. (2006). "Britonia". In John T. Koch, Celtic...
of Britons in the post-Roman period, from whom the region took the name Britonia or Bretoña, mentioned in ecclesiastical sources as Britonensis ecclesia...
lord of one half of Thebes Bela B (born 1962), German musician Bela of Britonia, clergyman and bishop Jacques de Bela (1586–1667), French-Basque lawyer...
meaning the Brittonic speaking people of Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and Britonia (modern northern Galicia). Cape Breton Island's first residents were likely...
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