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The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic peoples , the Picts and Gaels , who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba ) in the 9th century.
Lists of places within Scottish local authorities. List of places in Aberdeen. List of places in Aberdeenshire. List of places in Angus. List of places in Argyll and Bute. List of places in Clackmannanshire. List of places in Dumfries and Galloway. List of places in Dundee. List of places in East Ayrshire.
The Scottish Premiership was established in July 2013, after the SPFL was formed by a merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League. [2] There are 12 teams in this division, with each team playing 38 matches per season. Sixteen clubs have played in the Scottish Premiership since its creation in the 2013–14 season.
9 August 2002. ( 2002-08-09) Related. Scottish Passport. Passport Quiz is a Scottish Gameshow created by Bryan Burnett in which three pairs of contestants competed to win cash and prizes. The programme ran between 1998 and 2002 and was produced by Scottish Television.
The Shires of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachdan na h-Alba; Scots: Scots coonties), [a] or Counties of Scotland, were historic subdivisions of Scotland originally established in the Middle Ages for judicial purposes (being the territory over which a sheriff had jurisdiction). From the 17th century, after the Union of Scotland and England ...
Scotland has eight cities. Edinburgh is the capital city and Glasgow is the most populous. Scottish towns were granted burghs or royal burgh status by Scottish kings, including by David I of Scotland and William the Lion. City status has later been granted by royal charter and letters patent. Scotland has gained new cities since the year 2000 ...
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles.
Scottish national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity, as embodied in the shared and characteristic culture, languages and traditions, [ 1 ] of the Scottish people. Although the various languages of Gaelic, the Scots and Scottish English are distinctive, people associate them all together as Scottish with a shared ...