{"id":1018,"count":12,"description":"Albion (Greek: \u1f08\u03bb\u03b2\u03b9\u03ce\u03bd) is the oldest known name of the island of Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island or England in particular. It is also the basis of the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba. New Albion and Albionoria (\"Albion of the North\") were briefly suggested as possible names of Canada during the period of Canadian Confederation.\nThe derivation of the name Albion is discussed by Eilert Ekwall in an article called \"Early names of Britain\" in Antiquity 1930.\nGallo-Romance Albi\u014dn (cf. Middle Irish Albbu) derives from the Proto-Celtic * Alb-i\u032fen-, sharing the same stem as Welsh elfydd \"earth, world\", together with other European and Mediterranean toponyms such as Alpes and Albania has two possible etymologies, both plausible: either *albho-, a Proto-Indo-European root meaning \"white\" (in reference to the white southern shores of the island), or *alb-, Proto-Indo-European for \"hill\". The term, though, is much more likely to derive...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/albion\/","name":"Albion","slug":"albion","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}