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The Romanization of Roman Britain

CHAPTER VI
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But its name comes ultimately from the Early English form of Cantium, not from the Cantii.
In the south-west and in Wales, tribal names like Dumnonii (Devonshire), Demetae, Ordovices, have lingered on in one form or another, and, according to Professor Rhys, Bernicia is derivable from Brigantes.

But these cases differ widely from the Gaulish instances.] [Footnote 4: Ravennas (ed.

Parthey and Pinder), pp.

425 foll.

I have given a list of the towns in my Appendix to Mommsen's _Provinces of the Empire_ (English trans., 1909), ii.


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