[[File:Great Britain (orthographic projection).svg.png|thumbnail|RIGHTright|200px|Great Britain]]
'''Great Britain''' is a [[Europe]]an island consisting of [[England]], [[Scotland]], and [[Wales]], all of which send representatives to the Parliament of the [[United Kingdom]]. The "United Kingdom" consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "Great Britain" also has a purely geographic meaning, as the largest [[island]] of the [[British Isles]]. The term was first used during the [[Middle Ages]] to differentiate between the island of Britain and [[Brittany]] (''Little Britain'' - ''Britannia Minor'') in what is now France, which was a haven for Celtic peoples (''Britons'') fleeing the Germanic incursions beginning in the 5th and 6th centuries.