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

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 511 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALBION (in Ptolemy 'A)wviw; Lat. Albion, Pliny 4.16[301,102) , the most ancient name of the British Islands, though generally restricted to England. The name is perhaps of Celtic origin, but the Romans took it as connected with albus,
white
 , in reference to the
chalk
 -cliffs of Dover, and A. Holder (Alt-Keltischer Sprachschaiz,1896) unhesitatingly translates it Weissland, "
white
 -
land
 ." The early writer (6th cent. B.C.) whose periplus is translated by
Avienus
  (end of 4th cent. A.D.) does not use the name Britannia; he speaks of vitros 'Rpvwv Kai 'AX13i5vwv ("
island
  of the Ierni and the Albiones "). So 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 north
coast
  of Spain in Asturia, some scholars have placed Albion in that neighbourhood (see G. F. Unger, Rhein. Mus. xxxviii., 1883, pp. 156-196). The name Albion was taken by medieval writers from Pliny and
Ptolemy
 .


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