"It will come as a surprise to many to learn that Cornwall existed some 500 years before England itself was formed.The Cornovii were a Celtic tribe who inhabited the far South West peninsula of Britain, during the Iron Age, Roman and post-Roman periods and gave their name to Cornwall or Kernow.
The tribal name Cornovi stays with us to this day becoming 'Cornwall' from the Saxon 'corn' meaning horn and 'wealas' meaning speaker of a different language. For many centuries thereafter, the Cornish were looked upon as the non-English who lived on the horn of Britain, the original inhabitants of these islands. Weales also gives us the word Welsh, brothers of the Cornish."
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