(September 16, 2014 at 7:22 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:(September 16, 2014 at 7:16 pm)Chas Wrote: Right, the term was used in the context of uniting the crowns of England and Scotland. The point being that this context is not the name "United Kingdom".I was just saying that great britain was FIRST used to distinguish us from brittany, NOT to distinguish the post merger britain from the pre merger britain. I'd say that there's a good chance that the later title "great britain" is a derivative of the norman title "greater Britain", wouldn't you?
And I'm just saying that I am pointing out the misuse of the nomenclature by the OP.
And 'Great Britain' became officially the name in 1707.
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