Who gave Britain its name?

Britain was the name made popular by the Romans when they came to the British islands. Besides The name Britain goes back to Roman times when they called England and Wales "Britannia" (or "Britannia Major", to distinguished from "Britannia Minor", Brittany in France). The Roman province of Britannia only covered the areas of modern England and Wales. The area of modern Scotland was never finally conquered.

Colombia was conceived by the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda to appoint the union of American republics after independence, this way of paying tribute to the discoverer. Francisco de Miranda Venezuelan general, regarded as a precursor of the emancipation of American Spanish Empire, was the creator of the idea of Colombia as a nation.

On February 15, 1819, during the Congress of Angostura, which was proclaimed the state adopted the name Republic of Colombia