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27 Nov 2017, 4:55 am

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Britain comes from the Roman Britannia and the natives were known as Britons which we still all to this day and those tribes still make up the majority of our DNA.


Even in south eastern England, where most of the Anglo-Saxons settled?


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27 Nov 2017, 7:03 am

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Britain comes from the Roman Britannia and the natives were known as Britons which we still all to this day and those tribes still make up the majority of our DNA.

Well Britain is no good because that name was forced on them by the Roman invaders.


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27 Nov 2017, 8:16 am

I am not sure about specific regional makeup but yeah it varies to what extent I don't know. The ruling class saw themselves as the heirs to Rome hence them keeping the name and upper class students education mostly consisting of classics.



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27 Nov 2017, 8:24 am

Yep. I'm sure every petty kingdom thought they'd be the next Rome.


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27 Nov 2017, 12:28 pm

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Yep. I'm sure every petty kingdom thought they'd be the next Rome.


One British historian on a documentary I saw was implying just that. In truth, the real heir of Rome in the west was the Frankish kingdom, which encompassed much of modern Germany, France, and Belgium.


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27 Nov 2017, 2:04 pm

Not that I am a fan of it but the British Empire grew to be largest Empire that ever existed and the influenced the world far more than the Frankish did.



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27 Nov 2017, 5:14 pm

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Not that I am a fan of it but the British Empire grew to be largest Empire that ever existed and the influenced the world far more than the Frankish did.


I was writing specifically about the immediate period after the fall of Rome in the west, when such Barbarian kingdoms arose.
As for the Frankish kingdom - it's legacy lives on in the histories and heritage of Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands combined. Not just because all these countries were under Frankish rule, but because a large portion of the the aforementioned nations were of Frankish ethnicity.


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