The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Ireland

Also known as Hibernia

  • island
  • N/A

The green western island beyond Britain, known to Rome as Hibernia and never fully occupied. Gibbon notes it as a misty, pastoral land on the edge of the imperial world, later a source of monks and raiders.

Type
island
Style
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First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 11
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The green western island beyond Britain, known to Rome as Hibernia and never fully occupied. Gibbon notes it as a misty, pastoral land on the edge of the imperial world, later a source of monks and raiders.

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