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The Caledonian Britons were thus enemies of the Roman Empire, which was the state then administering most of Great Britain as the Roman province of Britannia. The Caledonians, like many Celtic tribes in Britain, were hillfort builders and farmers who defeated and were defeated by the Romans on several occasions. The Romans never fully occupied ...
The Caledonian Sleeper is an overnight train service from London to Scottish destinations. The Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. is a professional football club. In music, " Caledonia " is a popular Scottish patriotic song and folk ballad written by Dougie MacLean in 1977 and published in 1979 on an album of the same name; it has since been ...
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.
Caledonia is a Roman name of Celtic origin for most of the area that has become Scotland.. Caledonia may also refer to: . Caledonia, an old name for Scotland; Caledonians, also known as Caledonii or Caledonia Confederacy, name given by historians to the Iron Age indigenous people of Scotland
There are many theories on the origin of the term "Caldoche". The most widespread story, as told by the collective lexicon 1001 Caledonian Words, attributes the term to local journalist and polemicist Jacqueline Schmidt, who participated actively towards the end of the 1960s in the debate concerning the Billotte laws (in particular the first law, which transferred mining responsibilities in ...
The Caledonian Forest is the ancient temperate forest of Scotland. The forest today is a reduced-extent version of the pre-human-settlement forest, existing in several dozen remnant areas . The Scots pines of the Caledonian Forest are directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the Late Glacial ; arriving about 7000 BC .
The Caledonian Wilson cycle commenced with the continental break-up of Rodinia [17] and the opening of the Iapetus ocean about 616–583 Ma ago. [18] [19] [20] The Iapetus was at its widest in the Late Cambrian–Early Ordovician [21] [1] before it began to close by subduction of Iapetus crust along the Gondawanan and Laurentian margins starting between 500 and 488 Ma ago.
Tondo of a Laconian black-figure cup by the Naucratis Painter, c. 555 BCE (). Since the Calydonian boar hunt drew together numerous heroes [5] —among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times—it offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around ...