Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South …

Lilliput is a tiny island kingdom that is home to the tiny race of people known as Lilliputians and it is the rival kingdom of its fellow tiny neighbor Blefuscu, which is separated by an 800 yard …

Gulliver in Lilliput, a 1982 television serial produced by the BBC and aired in 4 parts; concentrating on the "Lilliput" section, the serial featured Andrew Burt as Gulliver.

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Nov 24, 2025 · In the first one, Gulliver is the only survivor of a shipwreck, and he swims to Lilliput, where he is tied up by people who are less than 6 inches (15 cm) tall.

Lilliput and Blefuscu were intended as, and understood to be, satirical portraits of the kingdom of Great Britain and the kingdom of France, respectively, as they were in the early 18th century.

Lilliput and Blefuscu were the names used for Britain and France, respectively, in a series of semi-fictional transcripts (with mutated names of people and places) of debates in the British …

Lilliput noun Lil· li· put ˈli-li- (ˌ)pət : an island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels where the inhabitants are six inches tall

In Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the imaginary country inhabited by people 6 inches (15 cm) high; the term Lilliputian for a trivial or very small person or thing derives from this.

Lilliputians and Blefuscudians, two races of miniature people whom Gulliver encounters on his first voyage, are prone to conspiracies and jealousies, and while they treat Gulliver well enough …