See also:

• ALBION
• ALBION (in Ptolemy 'A)wviw; Lat. Albion, Pliny 4.16[301,102)

ALBION (in See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy 'A)wviw; See also:

• LAT

Lat. Albion, See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny 4.16[301,102)  , the most See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient name of the See also:

• BRITISH

British Islands, though generally restricted to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . The name is perhaps of See also:

• CELTIC

Celtic origin, but the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans took it as connected with albus, See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white, in reference to the See also:

• CHALK

chalk-cliffs of See also:

• DOVER
• DOVER, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE
• DOVER, HENRY JERMYN, EARL OF (c. 1636-1708)
• DOVER, ROBERT (1575-1641)

Dover, and A . Holder (Alt-Keltischer Sprachschaiz,1896) unhesitatingly translates it Weissland, " white-See also:

• LAND

land." The See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early writer (6th cent . B.C.) whose periplus is translated by See also:

• AVIENUS, RUFIUS FESTUS

Avienus (end of 4th cent . A.D.) does not use the name Britannia; he speaks of vitros 'Rpvwv Kai 'AX13i5vwv (" See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of the Ierni and the Albiones ") . So See also:

• PYTHEAS

Pytheas of Massilia (4th cent . B.C.) speaks of "AAj3wv and 'Rpvrt . From the fact that there was a tribe called the Albiones on the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain in Asturia, some scholars have placed See also:

• ALBION
• ALBION (in Ptolemy 'A)wviw; Lat. Albion, Pliny 4.16[301,102)

Albion in that neighbourhood (see G . F . Unger, Rhein . See also:

• MUS

Mus. xxxviii., 1883, pp . 156-196) .

The name Albion was taken by See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval writers from See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny and See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy .