The Brittonic inhabitants of England – who inhabited the area prior to the Romans or the Anglo-Saxons – referred to their home as *Albi̯iū. The Ancient Greeks converted this as Albíōn, and the Ancient Romans as Albion. However, during Roman times, the term Britannia was more commonly used. While never in official use, Albion has often been used by poets to evoke a romantic, elegiac, England. The word England derives from the Old English word the Angles used for their adopted home, Englaland, meaning ‘land of the Angles’.