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{{about|the ancient ethnic groups of Great Britain||Briton}}
{{Expert-subject|Ethnic groups|date=January 2009}}
[[File:Map Gaels Brythons Picts GB.png|thumb|right|220px|[[Great Britain]] in the mid-late 5th century [[Common Era|CE]]<br>{{colorbox|red}} Mainly [[Brythonic languages|Brythonic]] areas<br>{{colorbox|green}} Mainly [[Goidelic languages|Gaelic]] areas<br>{{colorbox|blue}} Mainly [[Picts|Pictish]] areas]]
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{{Main|Britain (name)}}
{{See|Priteni|Brittia}}
The earliest known reference to the inhabitants of Britain seems to come from records of the voyage of [[Pytheas]], a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] geographer who made a voyage of exploration around the [[British Isles]] between 330 and 320 BC. Although none of his own writings remain, writers during the time of the [[Roman Empire]] made much reference to them. Pytheas called the islands collectively as αι Βρεττανιαι
 (ai Brettaniai), which has been translated as the ''Brittanic Isles'', and the peoples of these islands of ''Prettanike'' were called the Πρεττανοι (Prettanoi), ''Priteni'', ''[[Pritani]]'' or ''Pretani'', the painted people because they were heavily tattooed. The group included Ireland which was referred to as ''Ierne'' (''Insula sacra'', the ''sacred island'', as the Greeks interpreted it) "inhabited by the race of ''Hiberni''" (''gens hiernorum''), and Britain as ''insula Albionum&#x(contracted; show full)[[lt:Britai (keltai)]]
[[hu:Britonok]]
[[ja:ブリトン]]
[[no:Britonere]]
[[pl:Brytowie]]
[[ru:Бритты]]
[[sh:Briti]]
[[uk:Брити]]