Brittany (Parallel France)

Brittany (French: Bretagne; Breton: Breizh; Gallo: Bertaèyn), is a peninsula, constituent country, and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as a separate nation under the crown.

Brittany has also been referred to as Little Britain (as opposed to Great Britain, with which it shares an etymology). It is bordered by the English Channel to the north, Normandy to the northeast, eastern Pays de la Loire to the southeast, the Bay of Biscay to the south, and the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its land area is 34,023 sq km (13,136 sq mi).

Brittany is the site of some of the world's oldest standing architecture, home to the Barnenez, the Tumulus Saint-Michel and others, which date to the early 5th millennium BC. Today, Brittany is one of France's eight constituent countries, the others being Francia, East Frankia, Burgundy, Occitania, Normandy, Auvergne and Aquitaine.

Trivia

 * Brittany has three official languages by law: French, Breton, and Gallo. Breton is the most widely-spoken of the three.
 * Brittany has had two independence referendums, none of which were successful. The first referendum happened in 1974 and the second in 2006.
 * Aside from the five France Télévisions channels (TF1, France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5), Brittany has its own broadcaster, namely SWB (an abbreviation of Skinwel Breizh), broadcasting in all three of Breton's official languages.