Brittany, an old French prov., land of the Bretons, comprising the peninsula opposite Devon and Cornwall, stretching westward between the Bays of Cancale and Biscay, was in former times a duchy; a third of its inhabitants still retain their Breton language.
Population (circa 1900) given as 3,162,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Britomart * Britton, John