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  2. Scoti - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Roman divisions of Britain with the Scoti shown as a tribal grouping in the north of Ireland A map of Ulster and the Hebrides. Scotia or the "Land of the Scots". By the time of King Robert I, Ireland was known as Scotia Maior (greater Scotia) and Scotland was known as Scotia Minor (lesser Scotia). Following the 11th century, Scotia ...

  3. List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes - Wikipedia

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    Map 18: The population groups (tribes and tribal confederations) of Ireland (Iouerníā / Hibernia) mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia in a modern interpretation. Tribes' names on the map are in Greek (although some are in a phonetic transliteration and not in Greek spelling). They spoke Goidelic (an Insular Celtic language of the Q Celtic type.

  4. Scotia - Wikipedia

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    A map of the divisions of Roman Britain with the Scoti shown as a tribal grouping in the north of Ireland. Scotia is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels, [1] first attested in the late 3rd century. [1] The Romans referred to Ireland as "Scotia" around 500 A.D.

  5. Ulster Scots people - Wikipedia

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    Native Irish civilians were massacred in return. [18] By 1642, native Irish were in de facto control of much of the island under a Confederate Ireland, with about a third under the control of the opposition. However, many Ulster-Scots Presbyterians joined with the Irish in rebellion and aided them in driving the English out.

  6. Celtic nations - Wikipedia

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    However, thousands of Irish were living in New Brunswick prior to these events, mainly in Saint John. [76] Celtic Cross of Partridge Island, Canada. After the partitioning of the British colony of Nova Scotia in 1784 New Brunswick was originally named New Ireland with the capital to be in Saint John. [77]

  7. Picts - Wikipedia

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    In Ireland, kings were expected to come from among those who had a great-grandfather who had been king. [51] Kingly fathers were not frequently succeeded by their sons, not because the Picts practised matrilineal succession, but because they were usually followed by their own brothers or cousins ( agnatic seniority ), more likely to be ...

  8. Scottish people - Wikipedia

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    In the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the word Scot is mentioned as a reference to the "Land of the Gaels". The word Scottorum was again used by an Irish king in 1005: Imperator Scottorum was the title given to Brian Bóruma by his notary, Mael Suthain, in the Book of Armagh. [22] This style was subsequently copied by the Scottish kings.

  9. Scotch-Irish Americans - Wikipedia

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    A People Set Apart: The Scotch-Irish in Eastern Ohio (1999; ISBN 1-887932-75-5) highly detailed chronicle. Quinlan, Kieran. Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South (2004), critical analysis of Celtic thesis. Sherling, Rankin. The Invisible Irish: Finding Protestants in the Nineteenth-Century Migrations to America (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP ...