Pax Britannica

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Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from New Latin Pax Britannica, from pāx (peace) + Britannica (British) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna.

Proper noun[edit]

Pax Britannica

  1. (history) The period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and the onset of World War I in 1914.

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