Why do Cornwall and Cornwall have similar names?

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Cornouaille was once a religious and political district, until the creation of new regions and districts following the French Revolution.

It covered parts of the departments Finistère, Côtes-d’Armor, Morbihan and its capital was Quimper.

The names of the two regions are believed to be so similar because of refugees from Cornwall who migrated to France to flee Anglo-Saxon invasions.

Although the British arrived in the area, which was called Armorica in job function email database Roman times, from the 3rd century, it is said that there were massive migrations during the 5th and 6th centuries.



Lostmarc’h beach, Brittany, France
(Photo: Jeanne Menjoulet)
“This new colony of Britons formed in an area which was beginning to escape firm Roman control”, History File Reports.

“Located in the south-west of Armorica, isolated from major events by a long coastline and the large Brocéliande forest in the south-east, which has never been cleared, almost all of the history of the High Middle Ages de la Cornouaille is legendary. “

Brocéliande is a very famous Breton forest appearing in several medieval texts. He is related to King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table.