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Originally Posted by
ORAC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_(place_name
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After the Anglo-Saxon period,
Britain
was used as a historical term only.
Geoffrey of Monmouth
in his pseudohistorical
Historia Regum Britanniae
(
c.
1136) refers to the island of Great Britain as
Britannia major
("Greater Britain"), to distinguish it from
Britannia minor
("Lesser Britain"), the continental region which approximates to modern Brittany.........
The term
Great Britain
later served to distinguish the large island of Britain from the French region of Brittany (in French
Grande-Bretagne
and
Bretagne
respectively
). .......
Are you sure?
Article I, Union with England Act 1707
"That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England shall upon the first day of May next ensuing the date hereof and forever after be United into One Kingdom
by the Name of Great Britain
(
my emphasis
) And that the Ensigns Armorial of the said United Kingdom be such as Her Majesty shall appoint and the Crosses of St Andrew and St George be conjoined in such manner as Her Majesty shall think fit and used in all Flags Banners Standards and Ensigns both at Sea and Land"
Auth;
Union with England Act 1707
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