A peninsula is a piece of land surrounded almost entirely by water. Its name derives from the Latin paene (almost) and insula (island), so literally it means "almost an island". Large peninsulas include the Italian peninsula, Iberia and Jutland in Northern Europe, named after the Jutes, a Germanic people, one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples in the Nordic Iron Age, according to the Venerable Bede.
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