Brittany Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
administrative region of France
About Brittany
Towards the end of the 4th century, some of the Celtic Britons from what is nowWalesand southernEnglandbegan to emigrate to the Armorican Peninsula. Indeed the "Great" in Britain was added to differentiate it from the "Little" Britain on the mainland. The region received its modern name - Brittany (Breizhin Breton,Bretagnein French) from these settlers. With them they brought their own customs, tradition, and language that were completely different from that of their neighbors. As a result of their unique cultural identity, Breton history became a long struggle for independence, at first from the Franks (5th to 9th centuries), that led to a Breton kingdom. After Viking invasions the kingdom became a duchy. The influence of the Counts of Anjou and the Dukes of Normandy was important from th
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