"30 James Street. The design closely follows the architect's earlier work of 1887, the former New Scotland Yard building in London. In the 1980s, the Offices in Albion House were noted for their exquisite Office desks of fine wood. The entrance to the building at James Street has a fine mosaic of South America set into the floor, also near the James Street entrance inside Albion House was a wooden war memorial listing the members of staff who ""Gave their lives for their country"" in the 1914-18 War. Albion House is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as"
"Albiones The Albiones or Albioni were a Gallaecian people living the north coast of modern Spain in western Asturias and eastern Galicia mentioned by Pliny. They are generally included in maps of Roman Spain. The name ""Albiones"" is also attested on the ""stele of Nicer Clutosi"" found near Vegadeo, which has the inscription: This same area was settled by a group of Britons in the post-Roman period, from whom the region took the name Britonia or Bretoña, mentioned in ecclesiastical sources as ""Britonensis ecclesia"" (""British church"") and an episcopal see called the ""sedes Britonarum"" - see the History of Galicia."
"Stone of Nicer prince of the albions. From ""People of Asturias Museum"" Oviedo Albiones The Albiones or Albioni were a Gallaecian people living the north coast of modern Spain in western Asturias and eastern Galicia mentioned by Pliny. They are generally included in maps of Roman Spain. The name ""Albiones"" is also attested on the ""stele of Nicer Clutosi"" found near Vegadeo, which has the inscription: This same area was settled by a group of Britons in the post-Roman period, from whom the region took the name Britonia or Bretoña, mentioned in ecclesiastical sources as ""Britonensis ecclesia"" (""British church"") and"
"name (""Alouiōn"", ""Albion"") instead of the Roman name ""Britannia"", possibly following the commentaries of Marinus of Tyre. He calls both Albion and Ierne νῆσοι Βρεττανικαὶ (""nēsoi Brettanikai"", ""British Isles""). In 930, the English king Æthelstan used the title ""Rex et primicerius totius Albionis regni"" (""King and chief of the whole realm of Albion""). His nephew, Edgar the Peaceful, styled himself ""Totius Albionis imperator augustus"" ""Augustus Emperor of all Albion"" in 970. A legend exists in various forms that giants were either the original inhabitants, or the founders of the land named Albion. According to the 12th-century ""Historia Regum Britanniae"" (""The"
"Ireland (also called Hibernia by the Romans) and later for Scotland, the Scoti peoples having originated in Ireland and resettled in Scotland. Another, post-conquest, Roman name for the island of Great Britain was Albion, which is cognate with the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland: ""Alba"". Caledonia Caledonia () is the Latin name given by the Romans to the land in today's Scotland, north of their province of ""Britannia"", beyond the frontier of their empire. The etymology of the name is probably from a P-Celtic source. Its modern usage is as a romantic or poetic name for Scotland as a whole,"
"Albion Albion () is the oldest known name of the island of Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island. The name for Scotland in the Celtic languages is related to Albion: ""Alba"" in Scottish Gaelic, ""Albain"" (genitive ""Alban"") in Irish, ""Nalbin"" in Manx and ""Alban"" in Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. These names were later Latinised as ""Albania"" and Anglicised as ""Albany"", which were once alternative names for Scotland. ""New Albion"" and ""Albionoria"" (""Albion of the North"") were briefly suggested as names of Canada during the period of the Canadian Confederation. Arthur Phillip, first"
"Albion (Blake) In the complex mythology of William Blake, Albion is the primeval man whose fall and division results in the Four Zoas: Urizen, Tharmas, Luvah/Orc and Urthona/Los. The name derives from the ancient and mythological name of Britain, Albion. In the mythical story of the founding of Britain, Albion was a Giant son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. He was a contemporary of Heracles, who killed him. Albion founded a country on the island and ruled there. Britain, then called Albion after its founder, was inhabited by his Giant descendants until about 1100 years before Julius"
"II, Chapter 1 of as ""Iwernia, Bretanic Island"", and Chapter 2 as ""Alwion [sic], Bretanic Island"". The name ""Albion"" for Great Britain fell from favour, and the island was described in Greek as Πρεττανία or Βρεττανία, in Latin ""Britannia"", an inhabitant as Βρεττανός, ""Britannus"", with the adjective Βρεττανικός, ""Britannicus"", equating to ""British"". With the Roman conquest of Britain the name Britannia was used for the province of Roman Britain. The Emperor Claudius was honoured with the agnomen ""Britannicus"" as if he were the conqueror, and coins were struck from AD 46 inscribed or . With the visit of Hadrian in"
"a reference to the white cliffs of Dover (the only part of Britain visible from the European mainland) or from the phrase the ""island of the ""Albiones"""" in the now lost ""Massaliote Periplus"", that is attested through Avienus' ""Ora Maritima"" to which the former presumably served as a source. ""Albion"" is now applied to England in a more poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, ""Lloegr"", and made popular by its use in Arthurian legend. The earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that"
"Alebion In Greek mythology, Alebion or Albion ( or ) was a son of Poseidon and brother of Bergion (also known as Dercynus) who attacked Heracles with Dercynus when he passed through their country, Liguria in North-Western Italy, on his way back to Mycenae from Iberia having obtained the Cattle of Geryon as his tenth labour. The battle that followed was fierce; Albion and Dercynus (or Bergion) were supported by a numerous army. Hercules and his army were in a difficult position so he prayed to his father Zeus for help. With the aegis of Zeus, Heracles won the battle,"
"Albulae Albulae is an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Africa. It remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. It is identified with the modern town of Ain Temouchent, in present Algeria, near the Moroccan border. Albulae was a Roman settlement in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, whose site is now occupied by Aïn Témouchent in western Algeria. Albulae was made of a Roman fort and a vicus (small village-city) populated by romanised Berbers. It was founded by Hadrian in 119 AD with the name ""Proesidium Sufative"", and renamed one century later as Albulae (or ""albine"""
"referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th-century BC ""De Mundo"": ""Beyond the Pillars of Hercules is the ocean that flows round the earth. In it are two very large islands called Britannia; these are Albion and Ierne"". But modern scholarly consensus ascribes ""De Mundo"" not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, i.e. it was written later in the Graeco-Roman period or afterwards. The word ""Albion"" (Ἀλβίων) or ""insula Albionum"" has two possible origins. It either derives from a cognate of the Latin ""albus"" meaning white,"
"Albania (placename) The toponym Albania may indicate several different geographical regions: a country in the Balkans; an ancient land in the Caucasus; as well as Scotland, ""Albania"" being a Latinization of a Gaelic name for Scotland, ""Alba""; and even a city in the U.S. state of New York. Albania is the name of a country in the Balkans, attested in Medieval Latin. The name has derived from the Illyrian tribe of the ""Albanoi"" and their center Albanopolis, noted by the astronomer of Alexandria, Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD. Linguists think that the element ""*alb-"" in the root word, is"
"from the Scythian coast and called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus (author of a fanciful travel book in Greek) - as ""Basilia"" - a name generally equated with ""Abalus"". Given the presence of amber, the island could have been Heligoland, Zealand, the shores of Bay of Gdansk, the Sambia Peninsula or the Curonian Lagoon, which were historically the richest sources of amber in northern Europe. It is assumed that there were well-established trade routes for amber connecting the Baltic with the Mediterranean (known as the ""Amber Road""). Pliny states explicitly that the Germans exported amber to Pannonia, from where the"
"It later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state. The polity was located on the eastern border of modern Algeria, bordered by the Roman province of Mauretania (in modern Algeria and Morocco) to the west, the Roman province of Africa (modern Tunisia) to the east, the Mediterranean to the north, and the Sahara Desert to the south. Its people were the Numidians. The name ""Numidia"" was first applied by Polybius and other historians during the third century BC to indicate the territory west of Carthage, including the entire north of Algeria as far as the"
"Albania to Istria (Croatia) in the west and to the Sava River (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in the north. Salona (near modern Split in Croatia) functioned as its capital. The regions which it included changed through the centuries though a great part of ancient Illyria remained part of Illyricum. South Illyria became Epirus Nova, part of the Roman province of Macedonia. In 357 AD the region was part of the Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum one of four large praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided. By 395 AD dioceses in which the region was divided were the Diocese"
"history of England created by Polydore Vergil for Henry VIII states, ""The whole country of Britain is divided into four parts, whereof the one is inhabited by Englishmen, the other of Scots, the third Welshmen and the fourth of Cornish people."" Maps of the Mediaeval, Renaissance and later periods often referred to ""Albion"". This archaic term was originally used by Ptolemy and Pliny to mean the island of Great Britain. In later centuries its meaning changed to refer only to the area we now call Scotland (""Albany"", or ""Alba"" in Gaelic). ""Albion"" has survived as a poetic name for Britain"
"leader of the colonisation of Australia, originally named Sydney Cove ""New Albion"", but later the colony acquired the name ""Sydney"". The Common Brittonic name for the island, Hellenised as ""Albíōn"" () and Latinised as ""Albiōn"" (genitive ""Albionis""), derives from the Proto-Celtic nasal stem ""*Albi̯iū"" (oblique ""*Albiion-"") and survived in Old Irish as ""Albu"" (genitive ""Albann""). The name originally referred to Britain as a whole, but was later restricted to Caledonia (giving the modern Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba). The root ""*albiio-"" is also found in Gaulish and Galatian ""albio-"" (""world"") and Welsh ""elfydd"" (, ""earth, world, land, country, district"")."
"his important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica (Εθνικά), cites Polybius, saying it was a city in Illyria and gives an ethnic name for its inhabitants, calling them Arbonios (Greek: Αρβώνιος) and Arbonites (Greek: Αρβωνίτης). ""Albanopolis"" was an ancient illyrian city in the Roman province of Macedon, the center of the Illyrian tribe of Albani, noted by the astronomer of Alexandria, Ptolemy, during 150 AD in his famous work ""Geography"". It was located in the Zgërdhesh hill-fort near Krujë, central Albania. The city may have a continuation with the name of the city of Albanon or Arbanon, mentioned during the Middle Ages."
"Caledonia Caledonia () is the Latin name given by the Romans to the land in today's Scotland, north of their province of ""Britannia"", beyond the frontier of their empire. The etymology of the name is probably from a P-Celtic source. Its modern usage is as a romantic or poetic name for Scotland as a whole, comparable with Hibernia for Ireland and Cambria for Wales. The original use of the name, by Tacitus, Ptolemy, Lucan and Pliny the Elder, referred to the area (or parts of the area) later known as ""Pictavia"" or Pictland north of Hadrian's Wall in today's Scotland."
"this is debated. The Roman emperor Aurelian invaded in 273 or 274, which culminated in the Battle of Châlons, at which Tetricus surrendered. Whether this was the result of a secret agreement between Tetricus and Aurelian or necessary after his defeat is debated. Aurelian spared Tetricus, and even made him a senator and ""corrector"" (governor) of Lucania et Bruttii. He died of natural causes a few years after 274. The Gallic Empire is the historiographic name given to a state composed of the Roman provinces which made up Britannia, Hispania, and Gaul, which broke away from the Roman Empire during"
"region was called ""Al-Andalus"". In one inscription from the Vandal Kingdom, the Christian incantation of ""Kyrie eleison"" is given in Vandalic as ""Froia arme"" (""Lord, have mercy!""). The same phrase appears in ""Collatio Beati Augustini cum Pascentio ariano"" 15 by Pseudo-Augustine: ""Froja armes"". The epigram ""De conviviis barbaris"" in the Latin Anthology, of North African origin and disputed date, contains a fragment in a Germanic language that some authors believe to be Vandalic, although the fragment itself refers to the language as ""Gothic"". This may be because both languages were East Germanic and closely related; scholars have pointed out in"
"Apollonia (Sicily) Apollonia (Greek: ) was an ancient city of Sicily, which, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, was situated in the neighborhood of Aluntium and Calacte. Cicero also mentions it (""Or. in Verr."" 2.3.103) and in conjunction with Haluntium, Capitium, and Enguium, in a manner that seems to imply that it was situated in the same part of Sicily with these cities; and we learn from Diodorus (xvi. 72) that it was at one time subject to Leptines, the tyrant of Enguium, from whose hands it was wrested by Timoleon, and restored to an independent condition. A little later we"
"Albion (novel series) Albion is a trilogy of historical novels set in Arthurian Britain by British author Patrick McCormack. The story takes place around 520, thirty years after the battle of Badon, and ten years after Camlann. It is told in third person, from the point of view of numerous different characters. Through flashbacks and narrations by some of them, details of the past are revealed, concentrated in the periods before and after Arthur’s great victories over the Saxons. The plot centres on the 'Chalice of Sovereignty', a cup which Arthur obtains in mysterious circumstances and which leads to his"
"Historia"". He writes of Great Britain: ""Albion ipsi nomen fuit, cum Britanniae vocarentur omnes de quibus mox paulo dicemus."" (""Albion was its own name, when all [the islands] were called the Britannias; I will speak of them in a moment""). In the following section, 4.103, Pliny enumerates the islands he considers to make up the Britannias, listing Great Britain, Ireland, and many smaller islands. In his ""Geography"" written in the mid 2nd century and probably describing the position around AD 100, Ptolemy includes both Great Britain (Albion) and Ireland (Iwernia) in the so called ""Bretanic"" island group. He entitles Book"
"scientist Claudius Ptolemy referred to the larger island as ""great Britain"" (μεγάλη Βρεττανία ""megale Brettania"") and to Ireland as ""little Britain"" (μικρὰ Βρεττανία ""mikra Brettania"") in his work ""Almagest"" (147–148 AD). In his later work, ""Geography"" (c. 150 AD), he gave these islands the names ""Alwion"", ""Iwernia"", and ""Mona"" (the Isle of Man), suggesting these may have been names of the individual islands not known to him at the time of writing ""Almagest"". The name ""Albion"" appears to have fallen out of use sometime after the Roman conquest of Great Britain, after which ""Britain"" became the more commonplace name for"
"in ""Alb-"" (very common in mountainous areas, especially in ancient Liguria and also found in river names). St. Pantaleon's Church, Cologne holds relics said to be those of the British martyr Alban (as noted above). In fact, although identified with the British martyr, he was locally known as ""Albinus"". His relics were said to have been brought from Rome by Empress Theophano and placed in St Pantaleon's church in about 984: the relics were miraculously saved from destruction in an accident on the way at a place that a later version of 1502, was identified as Silenen, Switzerland. The original"
"New Albion New Albion, also known as Nova Albion, was the name of the continental area north of Mexico claimed by Sir Francis Drake for England in 1579. This claim on the Pacific coast, which became the justification for English charters across America to the Atlantic coast, soon influenced further national expansion projects on the continent. Today, it is known as Point Reyes, California, a marine environment which is the setting of several small towns, ranches, and the Point Reyes National Seashore. In the late sixteenth century, Drake developed a plan to use investors' support so he could sail into"
"partially southern Dagestan. However, unlike the names of the other two European countries, this name was an exonym given to them by the Romans, as no one knew what these inhabitants called themselves. Compare also the land in Caucasus called Iberia, and the Iberian peninsula in Europe. The Udi people and their language, the Udi language, are descendants of the ancient people of Caucasian Albania. Alba, a Gaelic name for Scotland, may be related to the Greek name of Britain Albion, Latinized as ""Albania"" during the High Medieval period, and later passed into Middle English as Albany. Some recent scholarship"
"times, ""Albania"" was a name for the eastern Caucasus, while in the English languages ""Albania"" (or ""Albany"") was occasionally used as a name for Scotland, although it is more likely derived from the Latin ""albus"", the color white. The Latin word ""Alpes"" could possibly come from the adjective ""albus"" (“white”). In modern languages the term ""alp"", ""alm"", ""albe"" or ""alpe"" refers to a grazing pastures in the alpine regions below the glaciers, not the peaks. An ""alp"" refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be"
"Albion in literary use. But its association with the ""Brutus myth"" could also make it seem loaded. Sandys protested in Parliament against the royal title change, to ""King of Great Britain"". An argument brought up was on precedence: a ""new"" kingdom of Britain would lose its position among (European) kingdoms. Anthony Weldon, with animus against James, later mocked ""Britain"" as a barbarous Scottish invention. The long descriptive poem ""Poly-Olbion"" by Michael Drayton was belated in terms of its contribution to the union debate, but is now seen as engaging in British and Saxon history at a local level. The plantation"
"Blake's poems ""Milton"" and ""Jerusalem"" feature Albion as an archetypal giant representing humanity. In 2010, artist Mark Sheeky donated the 2008 painting ""Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone"" to the Grosvenor Museum collection. Albion Albion () is the oldest known name of the island of Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island. The name for Scotland in the Celtic languages is related to Albion: ""Alba"" in Scottish Gaelic, ""Albain"" (genitive ""Alban"") in Irish, ""Nalbin"" in Manx and ""Alban"" in Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. These names were later Latinised as"
"Gallaecia Gallaecia or Callaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province in the north-west of Hispania, approximately present-day Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias and Leon and the later Suebic Kingdom of Gallaecia. The Roman cities included the port Cale (Porto), the governing centers Bracara Augusta (Braga), Lucus Augusti (Lugo) and Asturica Augusta (Astorga) and their administrative areas Conventus bracarensis, Conventus lucensis and Conventus asturicensis. The Romans gave the name ""Gallaecia"" to the northwest part of the Iberian peninsula after the tribes of the area, the Gallaeci or Gallaecians. The Gallaic Celts make their entry in written"