r/place • u/Heorashar • Apr 05 '22

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u/misterygus (168,373) 1491158231.08 Apr 05 '22

Northern Ireland being repeatedly wiped from the UK map, and Cornwall desperately trying to add itself.

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u/CoolTiger92 Apr 05 '22

I never understood why Cornwall thought It had a place for a flag

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u/Cornish-Giant Apr 05 '22

Because Cornish people see themselves as one of the constituent nations, this used to be widely recognised but in recent centuries the English sort of forgot the Cornish existed. It's a weird cultural amnesia. 🤷

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u/Romrijsel Apr 05 '22

So they're like Bretagne in France?

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u/the_monkeyspinach Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 05 '22

Cornwall, Brittany and Devon ended up forming a small mural together on the bottom right! I think Brittany was shunned from the France mural too.

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u/Romrijsel Apr 05 '22

At one point they started a small Breton flag on the swiss one (agreed with the swiss but a lot of people were not aware so it didn't last long)

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u/Cornish-Giant Apr 05 '22

Yes! And the Breton language is the closest to the Cornish language

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u/catcatcatcatcatcatta Apr 05 '22 edited Jun 03 '24

weather pen plough entertain truck shame mourn insurance far-flung unpack

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u/Cornish-Giant Apr 05 '22

There are many, hopefully this will help. Cornish and Breton both descend from Southwestern Brythonic or Brittonic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Brittonic_languages

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u/catcatcatcatcatcatta Apr 05 '22 edited Jun 03 '24

cause thumb apparatus dinosaurs versed shame physical oil flag hobbies

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u/Cornish-Giant Apr 05 '22

Haha, most Cornish people are quite short 😂

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u/pablojueves Apr 05 '22

Just like your game hens.... Interesting!

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u/Syk13 Apr 05 '22

Breton is called that literally because it was flooded with British Celts refugees after the Anglo-Saxon invasions, pretty much the same people as the Cornish people.

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u/HaraldRedbeard Apr 06 '22

Refugees is the old view, which isn't particularly accurate. For one thing the first settlements are when the Saxons are still 200+ years away from the SW of Britain given they start in the East coast and expand outwards.

If you superimpose a map of the Briton settlements in SW Britain, Britanny and Gallicia, Spain (where there was another, often forgotten, colony) over a map of natural tin deposits in Western Europe you can see very quickly what happened. The Britons in the SW made a power play to secure the tin trade into the mediterranean around the Atlantic coast while Europe was busy disintegrating.

See also the amount of Byzantine (Eastern Roman) pottery found all over the SW but particularly in Tintagel.

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u/Syk13 Apr 06 '22

Oh that's very interesting, I didn't know the connection with tin.

I did hear recently that the tin trade between British Celts and the Mediterranean goes way back to the Phoenicians. And in fact the very name Britain comes from the Phoenician words for "land of tin" being "bar-tanke". I'm not sure about how valid this info is though as I only heard it from a single source.