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A '''Briton''' is the term for the people of [[Great Britain]]. The ancient Brythons were the people indigenous to the island now constituting [[Great Britain]].
A '''Briton''' is the term for one of the people of [[Great Britain]]. The ancient Brythons were the people indigenous to the island now constituting [[Great Britain]].
Britons at the time of the invasion of the [[Romans]] were divided up into [[Celtic]] tribes, such as the Brigantes in what became Northern [[England]] and the Iceni in Norfolk. They spoke the Brythonic language, the ancestor of [[Welsh]]. After the AD 43 Roman invasion under [[Claudius]], some Britons allied themselves with the [[Romans]] and others like Caratacos fought hard against them. Prasutagos of the Iceni was one that allied to Rome, but when he died the dreadful treatment that his wife, [[Boudica]] and her daughters suffered at the hands of a Roman procurator caused a revolt to erupt and Camulodunum (Colchester) and Londinium ([[London]]) were amongst the cities destroyed. Boudica’s revolt was brutally suppressed.
Most Britons were Romanised in the centuries of Roman rule. But those in [[Wales]] and those beyond [[Hadrian’s Wall]] were less so, and they formed kingdoms in the early [[Dark Ages]] such as Gwynedd (in North Wales) and Strathclyde (in the west of what later became Scotland). The [[Anglo-Saxons]] took over much land from the Britons, and Old English replaced Brythonic (which we can start calling Cymraeg or Old [[Welsh]]) in the lands that became [[England]].
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