If you are referring to the region also known as “Brittany”, there is a wealth of historical info on it in Encarta on-line encyclopedia.

It was formerly a province and duchy; it’s on a peninsula that extends about 150 miles into the Atlantic ocean between the English Channel on the north and the Bay of Biscay on the south; in ancient times it formed part of Armorica, the center of a confederation of Cymric Celtic tribes; the Romans under Julius Ceasar invaded it in 56 BC and became the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis; in the 5th & 6th centuries after the withdrawal of the Romans, many Britons (Celtic natives of Britian) in flight from Teutonic invaders of their homeland, took refuge in the northwestern part of Armorica. They gave the region it’s present name. The Britons (later called Bretons) gradually converted the Armorican Celts, then mainly pagans, to Christianity.

During the 7th and 8th centuries a number of petty principalities developed in Brittany which became subject to Charlemagne early in the 9th century, but in 846, under a leader, Nomenoe, who had united the country against invaders, the Bretons revolted against Charlemagne’s grandson, Charles the Bald, and won independence.

In the latter part of the 10th century the Bretons acknowledged the rule of the Norman dukes. Geoffrey, count of Rennes, declared himself duke of Brittany in 922. The dukedom became, through marriage, a possession of Geoffrey Plantagenet, son of Henry II, king of England, in 1171.

It reverted to a line of French dukes at Rennes early in the 13th century. In 1491, when Anne of Brittany, who had inherited the dutchy, married Charles VIII, king of France, Brittany was temporarily united with France. The union became permanent by treaty in 1532, during the reign of the French king Francis I, who had married Claude, daughter of Anne of Brittany.

i’m new in Brittany (Bretagne), yet indexed below are some places of pastime : – Rennes, with its previous medieval residences indoors the midsection. – Vannes, an rather previous city too – Quimper, in an identical type – Quiberon “presqu’ile” and its wild coast (Cote sauvage) – it incredibly is a peninsula with western coast preserved from any residences) – Groix Island (Ile de Groix), a powerful place to bypass to in case you like cycling or coping with foot – the very West, and the “pointe du Van” and larger in call for “pointe du Raz”, cliffs and rocky places, with very beautiful views to the Atlantic ocean – Carnac, with its mysterious megalithic alignements (in case you like stonehenge, different than it incredibly is now not aligned in a circle) – any places with dolmens and menhirs 🙂 – Port Royal and its fortress (close to to Lorient), the region boats going to Indian French possessions have been commencing up. different places i did now not settle on for the 2d, yet are reputated : – the islands of Belle-Ile, Houat, Hoedic, Sein and Ouessant – the “foret de Paimpont”, exceptionally used as “Brocéliande”, the region King Arthur, Viviane and Merlin have been meant to spend an prolonged time indoors the Arthurian legend. looks it incredibly is completely powerful – Saint Malo, an previous medieval city stated to be very beautiful. in case you have a whilst, you would be able to desire to take a ferry from Saint Malo and bypass to the “Anglo-Normand” islands of Jersey and Guernesey (no remember if it incredibly is now not Brittany anymore, even now not Breton way of lifestyles). take it gradual to get exhilaration from the community gastronomy : the pancakes and galettes made out of “blé noir” (i think of of it incredibly is buckwheat), the seafood, the “cidre” (alcohol made out of apples), the song (in case you’re into celtic song) and way of lifestyles (the Breton language keeps to be alive, no remember if it incredibly is larger an identary language, now not an area language now, different than for previous human beings).