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Nonetheless the Caledonians did retake their territory and pushed the Romans back to Hadrian's Wall. In any event, there is no further historical mention of the Caledonians for a century save for a c. AD 230 inscription from Colchester which records a dedication by a man calling himself the nephew (or grandson) of "Uepogenus, [a] Caledonian". [18]
From Edward Bunbury's A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans (1879) Caledonia ( / ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ; Latin : Calēdonia [kaleːˈdonia] ) was the Latin name used by the Roman Empire to refer to the part of Scotland that lies north of the River Forth , which includes most of the land area of Scotland . [ 1 ]
19th-century print depicting Calgacus delivering his speech to the Caledonians. According to Tacitus, Calgacus (sometimes Calgacos or Galgacus) was a chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84.
Caracalla then called off the war against the Caledonians and headed back to Rome to consolidate his power. Although forts erected by the Roman army of the Severan campaign were placed near those established by Agricola and were clustered at the mouths of the glens in the Highlands, the Caledonians were again in revolt in 210–211 and these ...
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Caledonian is a geographical term used to refer to places, species, or items in or from Scotland, or particularly the Scottish Highlands.It derives from Caledonia, the Roman name for the area of modern Scotland.
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The Grampian orogeny was an orogeny (mountain building event) that affected Scotland in the middle of the Ordovician.At the time, Scotland was part of proto-North American continent Laurentia.