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The place name Albion is old and there is controversy regarding its etymology. Albion is the archaic name for Great Britain; often used poetically. Occasionally it instead refers to only Scotland, whose name in Gaelic is Alba.
The name is perhaps of Celtic origin, from the Proto-Indo-European root that denotes both "white" and "mountain", but the Romans took it as connected with albus (white), in reference to the chalk "White Cliffs of Dover".
As a literary figure, Albion is the name of a character in the poetry of William Blake.