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by linearrust 784 days ago
> England was part of the Roman world just a few hundred years before the period in question.

England was never part of the roman world. It was the collapse of the roman world that allowed the anglo-saxons to settle and create england. England was a post-roman world creation. Heck it was part of the destruction crew of the roman world.
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skyyler 784 days ago
The comment you are replying to likely meant Britain, not England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain

USAmericans tend to say "England" interchangably with "United Kingdom", "Great Britain", and "The British Isles". Possibly more.

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tsimionescu 784 days ago
It's not just US people who do this, it's many others in Europe and around the world. The common name of the UK in many languages is some variant of England, even to the point of what you'd learn in a geography class.

Also, people very commonly use the name of modern day countries to refer to their territory, such as "most of Germany was frozen over in the last Ice Age". I suspect this is what is happening here.

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