Cornouaille's location within Brittany.

Flag of Cornouaille.

Cornouaille is a historic region in Brittany, in northwest France. "Les Cornouailles", however, is the French for Cornwall in Great Britain. There is a chance that the name Cornouaille was given in relation to the region of the British Isles. (This happened for Devon, formerly called Dumnonia in Latin, la Domnonée becoming the name of the equivalent region in Brittany in the early Middle Ages.) Image File history File links BroGernev. ... Image File history File links BroGernev. ... Image File history File links Bandera_Kernev. ... Image File history File links Bandera_Kernev. ... Brittany has a spectacular coastline Flag of Brittany (Gwenn-ha-du) Historical province of Brittany région of Bretagne, see Bretagne. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... Location of the British Isles The British Isles is a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, and a number of smaller surrounding islands and islets. ... Devon is a large county in South West England, bordered by Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Dumnonia was a Brythonic kingdom of sub-Roman Britain, located in the south-west peninsula of modern England and covering Cornwall, Devon, most of Somerset and possibly part of Dorset. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

The original Germanic name (Corn-whealas)means "the corner of foreigners"[lit. Horn of Welsh] in reference to the resettling of the Celts from over the English Channel by the Anglo Saxon invaders. A Celtic cross. ... Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: La Manche (IPA: ), the sleeve) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...

The region was first mentioned by this name between 852 and 857 when the Bishop of Saint-Corentin, Anaweten, took over "Cornugallensis". Events Boris I Michael succeeds the duumvirate of Malamir and Presian as monarch of Bulgaria. ... Events Viking raid of Dorestad. ...

The existence of a district of ancient Anjou called "La Cornuaille" has led to the hypothesis that it was a geographical or military label for all of southern Brittany as far as the northern shore of la Domonée in the 6th or 7th century. Anjou is a former county (c. ... Brittany has a spectacular coastline Flag of Brittany (Gwenn-ha-du) Historical province of Brittany région of Bretagne, see Bretagne. ...

At the origin of this feudal county, the reigning dynasty acceded to a dukedom of the region, which then passed to the bishop of Quimper. Feudalism comes from the Late Latin word feudum, itself borrowed from a Germanic root *fehu, a commonly used term in the Middle Ages which means fief, or land held under certain obligations by feodati. ... A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ... Two bishops assist at the Exhumation of Saint Hubert, who was a bishop too, at the église Saint-Pierre in Liège. ... Quimper (Kemper in Breton, Corspotium in Latin) is a commune of Brittany in northwestern France. ...

The name Cornouaille signifies the diocese of Quimper which persisted until the French Revolution. The diocese covered more than half of the south of Finistère, and extended over part of Morbihan and the Côtes-d'Armor. There were two arch-deacons, one for Cornouaille and one for Poher. There were also a cantor, a treasurer, a theologian and twelve canons. This episcopal division was the poorest in Brittany. Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ... The French Revolution (1789–1799/1804) was a vital period in the history of French, and Europe as a whole. ... Finistère (Penn-ar-Bed in Breton) is a département of France, located in Brittany (Bretagne in French). ... Morbihan is a département in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan (small sea in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline. ... Côtes-dArmor (French) / Aodoù-an-Arvor (Breton) is a département in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. ... An archdeacon is a position in Christian churches. ...

After the French Revolution, the new constitution created a diocese of Finistère, erasing that of Kerne/Cournouaille; most of the old diocese was absorbed into the new.

In Breton, the region is known as "Kerne" or "Bro-Gerne", and in Latin "Cornugallia" or "Cornubia" Breton (Breton: Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany (Breizh) and Loire-Atlantique (historically part of Brittany) in France. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...