One way of looking at the various names for the British Isles is through history. The original inhabitants of Europe were the Britons which now live in Wales and Cornwall. Other related peoples are the Bretons from Brittany in France and the Basques in southern France and northern Spain.
The Celts in Ireland are said to have come from Spain and they later migrated to Scotland and there mingled with the Norse.
England gets it's name from the Angles who were a Germanic tribe that invaded after the Romans left.
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