{"id":552,"date":"2018-09-04T09:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T08:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/?p=552"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T08:39:42","slug":"the-pretani-education-programme-the-carthaginians-greeks-and-romans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/news\/the-pretani-education-programme-the-carthaginians-greeks-and-romans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pretani Education Programme &#8211; The Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Pretani Associates were at the Skipperstone Road Community Centre, Whitehill, Bangor. Presentations were given on the meaning of the names of our islands by the ancient Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans and their importance today. The earliest names for Ireland and Great Britain were Ierne and Albion. Ierne means the \u201cFurthermost Habitation\u201d in Carthaginian and Albion the \u201cWhite Island\u201d in Ancient Greek. The two islands were the Isles of Pretani. The Romans then changed the P of Pretani to B, thus giving us the name Britannia in Latin, following the First Battle of the Somme fought \u00a0by Julius Caesar in 57 BC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-553\" src=\"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Isles-of-Pretani-Image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Isles-of-Pretani-Image-1.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Isles-of-Pretani-Image-1-300x202.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Isles-of-Pretani-Image-1-768x517.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Isles-of-Pretani-Image-1-1024x689.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Pretani Associates were at the Skipperstone Road Community Centre, Whitehill, Bangor. Presentations were given on the meaning of the names of our islands by the ancient Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans and their importance today. The earliest names for Ireland and Great Britain were Ierne and Albion. Ierne means the \u201cFurthermost Habitation\u201d in Carthaginian [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}