Update: Quimper-Vannes has moved to a new site: https://quimpervannes.substack.com/ This Blogger site is now an archive. New articles, extracts and launch news for the English edition and French translation will appear on Substack. Borders are designed to keep people in or to keep people out. We see them everywhere in history: walls, fences, hedges, barbed wire, scorched earth, chicken wire or place names. There are quite a few Breton place names that speak of borders and boundaries. I've listed a few of them below and put some of them together in the map above. 22 (Cotes d'Armor) ÉVRAN Evrann [Ivran/Ivram, 12 th C] ‘Borderland’ From G: iguoranda / equoranda ‘limit’, ‘boundary’ (of a city/region). Iguoranda/Equoranda refers to ‘limits’ and ‘frontiers’ and often corresponds to the boundary between two Gaulish tribes. Évran was on the border between the Redones and Coriosolites, representing a frontier zon...
The Origins and Place Names of Brittany