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"Prettanike" is the name given to the British Isles by the Greek Explorer Pytheas. He named it so because he came across a tribe of "painted" people, or "Prettani," so Prettanike means, roughly, land of the painted people. This is the origin or the word "Brittania" and, therefore, Britain. In short, Prettanike refers to Great Britain.

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