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  2. Iona - Wikipedia

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    The island of Iona has played an important role in Scottish landscape painting, especially during the Twentieth Century. As travel to north and west Scotland became easier from the mid C18 on, artists' visits to the island steadily increased. The Abbey remains in particular became frequently recorded during this early period.

  3. Iona Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Iona Abbey is an abbey located on the island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland. It is one of the oldest Christian religious centres in Western Europe. The abbey was a focal point for the spread of Christianity throughout Scotland and marks the foundation of a monastic community by St. Columba , when Iona was part ...

  4. Iona Nunnery - Wikipedia

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    Ruins of the Iona Nunnery. The Iona Nunnery was an Augustinian convent of nuns located on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was established sometime after the foundation of the nearby Benedictine monastery in 1203 by Ranald, son of Somerled. Bethóc, daughter of Somerled, and sister of Ranald, was first prioress. The ...

  5. List of islands of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Some 94 Scottish islands are permanently inhabited, of which 89 are offshore islands. Between 2001 and 2011, Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702. [3] The geology and geomorphology of the islands is varied. Some, such as Skye and Mull, are mountainous, while others like Tiree and Sanday are relatively low-lying.

  6. Iona Island - Wikipedia

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    Iona, an island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland Iona Island (British Columbia) , formerly an island, now a peninsula physically connected to Sea Island via a causeway and Ferguson Road Iona Island (New York) , a bedrock island of the Hudson River in the town of Stony Point, about one mile south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, and part of Bear ...

  7. Martyrs of Iona - Wikipedia

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    The martyrs of Iona were a group of 68 Celtic Christian monks who lived at Iona Abbey (on the island of Iona, Scotland) and were massacred there in the early ninth century. [ 1 ] Viking raids of the British and Irish coasts began in 793 AD, when the Vikings conducted a bloody attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne on the English coast; so began ...

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