Plural of Damnonian; members of an ancient Celtic people who inhabited what is now Devon and Cornwall in southwestern Britain.
From Damnonii, a Brythonic Celtic tribe whose name likely derives from a root meaning 'deep' or 'river,' referencing the landscape of their territory. The Romans documented them as the Dumnonii.
The Damnonians were such mysterious Celts that even their name's meaning is debated by historians — they controlled one of the richest tin-trading regions in the ancient world, yet they left surprisingly few written records of their own.
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