At the end of the period of British history known as Roman Britain () the inhabitants of Cumbria were Cumbric-speaking native Romano-Britons who were probably descendants of the Brigantes and Carvetii (sometimes considered to be a sub-tribe of the Brigantes) that the Roman Empire had conquered in about AD 85. Based on inscriptional evidence from the area, the Roman ' of the Carvetii seems to have covered portions of Cumbria. The names "Cumbria", ' (the native Welsh name for Wales), "Cambria", and "Cumberland" are derived from the name these people gave themselves, *"kombroges" in Common Brittonic, which originally meant "compatriots".