Roman Period
By the 1st century BC Britannia was being used to refer to Great Britain specifically, due to the Roman conquest and the subsequent establishment of the Roman province of Britannia, which eventually came to encompass the part of the island south of Caledonia (roughly, Scotland).
Brittannia or Brittānia was the name used by the Romans from the 1st century BC. Following the Roman conquest of AD 43, it came to be used for the Roman province of Britain, which was restricted to the island of Great Britain south of Hadrian's wall. Because of this, Brittannia was increasingly used for Great Britain in particular, which had formerly been known as Albion.
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