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The Kingdom of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Scots: Kinrick o Scotland, Norn: Kongungdum Skotland) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843.
Scotland - Unification, Kingdom, History: In 843 Kenneth MacAlpin, King Kenneth I of Scots, also became king of the Picts and crushed resistance to his assuming the throne. Kenneth may have had a claim on the Pictish throne through the matrilineal law of succession; probably the Picts too had been weakened by Norse attacks.
The origins of the Kingdom of Scotland can be traced back to 843 CE when Kenneth MacAlpin, King of the Scots of Dál Riata, inherited the throne of the Picts and formed a unified front. Spanning across 864 years, the Kingdom of Scots would be at the forefront of expansion, wars, and unionization.
Scotland's ultimate victory confirmed Scotland as a fully independent and sovereign kingdom. When King David II died in 1371 without issue, his nephew Robert II established the House of Stuart , which would rule Scotland uncontested for the next three centuries.
Evidence of human settlement in the area later known as Scotland dates from the 3rd millennium bce. The earliest people, Mesolithic ( Middle Stone Age ) hunters and fishermen who probably reached Scotland via an ancient land bridge from the Continent, were to be found on the west coast, near Oban, and as far south as Kirkcudbright , where their ...
Scotland is the most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom, occupying about one-third of the island of Great Britain. It has a long and complicated history with England, with which it was merged in 1707 to form the United Kingdom. Its capital is Edinburgh.
The Kingdom of Scotland was initially ruled by the House of Alpin, but internal conflicts over succession were common. The kingdom transitioned to the House of Dunkeld after Malcolm II's death in the early 11th century.
Scotland is a country which, today, comprises the northern part of Great Britain and includes the islands known as the Hebrides and the Orkneys. The name derives from the Roman word "Scotti" which designated an Irish tribe who invaded the region and established the kingdom of Dal Riata.
Since 653 AD many of the major groups of people in Scotland - Britons, Gaels and much of Pictland - had been subject to the overlordship of King Oswui. In 672 AD, after the death of Oswui,...
In the meantime, Smithsonian magazine has you covered with a primer on the tangled history of Scottish sovereignty. The inhabitants of what is now Scotland fiercely protected the region’s...