Search results

Create the page "Modern Scots" on this wiki! See also the search results found.

• Aberdeenshire
  ...the territory ''Taixalon''. Their town of Devana, once supposed to be the modern [[Aberdeen]], has been identified by John Stuart with a site in the parish ...advantage of the disturbed condition of the country during the wars of the Scots independence, and made common cause with the bulk of the nation.{{sfn|Chish
  17 KB (2,564 words) - 18:38, 11 September 2022
• Alnwick
  ...Percys retained their power. Latterly Anwick has transformed itself into modern rural centre. ...the present time. After being held by the family of De Vesci (of which the modern rendering is Vasey, a name found all over south-east Northumberland) for ov
  9 KB (1,475 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2014
• County Antrim
  Notwithstanding the descent of most of Antrim's population from Scots and English settlers, the names of the townlands in the county are almost a ...numerous adventurers from Britain attempted to colonize the region. Many Scots settled in Antrim around this time.<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of the
  18 KB (2,744 words) - 11:02, 7 June 2023
• Argyll
  ...trace their descent from the chiefs of Argyll and of Lorne respectively in modern Argyllshire. ...t "the name ''Arregathel'' means margin of the Scots or Irish, because all Scots and Irish are generally called ''Gattheli'' (i.e. Gaels), from their ancien
  17 KB (2,597 words) - 17:13, 23 September 2022
• Berwickshire
  ...ional strife the shire was repeatedly overrun by armies of the English and Scots kings, who were constantly fighting for the ancient frontier town of Berwic In the Middle Ages and into the modern period, Berwickshire was an unquiet land, the haunt of robbers like so much
  13 KB (1,937 words) - 17:05, 24 March 2021
• Buteshire
  ===Early Scots rule=== ...entury.<ref>Murray (1973) pp. 147-155</ref> Islands close to the shores of modern Ayrshire would have remained part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde during this
  21 KB (3,251 words) - 21:55, 31 March 2022
• Cumberland
  ...re is separated for Cumberland by the Solway and the [[River Sark]], the [[Scots Dike]] and the [[Liddel Water]]. Westmorland lies to the south, separated ...King Edmund "ravaged all Cumberland and granted it to Malcolm, King of the Scots on the condition that he be his fellow worker on sea and on land".<ref>Angl
  16 KB (2,422 words) - 13:18, 19 February 2019
• Dunbartonshire
  ...[Highlands]]. By the Clyde the placenames are overwhelmingly form Lowland Scots and English, but here in the hills are Gaelic names. Here are fair glens, ...From the Rock of Dumbarton, Strathclyde held out for centuries against the Scots of Argyll, until the two united in the creation of the new power in the nor
  13 KB (2,034 words) - 13:55, 16 January 2018
• Kirkcudbrightshire
  When the Kingdom of the Scots was consolidated under Kenneth MacAlpine (crowned in 844), Galloway did not ...ich Archibald the Grim had built on the Dee immediately to the west of the modern town of [[Castle Douglas]], was reduced and converted into a royal keep. (I
  17 KB (2,623 words) - 14:25, 19 January 2021
• Morayshire
  ...nd by the victory of Kenneth MacAlpine in 831, who united the Picts to the Scots. ...August 1040, in which Thorfinn Earl of Orkney overthrew a strong force of Scots under King Duncan, the consolidation of the kingdom was being gradually acc
  14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:44, 5 January 2021
• Northamptonshire
  ...y, and an important Roman settlement, ''Lactodorum'', stood on the site of modern-day [[Towcester]]. There were other Roman settlements at [[Northampton]], [ ...er. William L.: The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, mediæval, and modern]. Retrieved 16 August 2009.</ref>
  23 KB (3,176 words) - 19:27, 20 March 2024
• Northumberland
  ...beyond the Tees. Further territory was nibbled away in time; the King of Scots seized all the lands north of the [[River Tweed]] and after the Norman conq ...t which the lands between the Forth and the Tyne were ceded to the King of Scots is uncertain, though the Battle of [[Carham]] in 1016 (or 1018) is taken as
  22 KB (3,198 words) - 09:29, 2 March 2016
• Orkney
  ...and the islands were annexed in 1472. They had gradually been settled by Scots for some ages before. ...ls in 2001, about 3.5% of the islands' economically active population, the modern industry concentrating on herring, white fish, lobsters, crabs and other sh
  51 KB (7,781 words) - 21:39, 29 January 2016
• Yell
  ...o 14th centuries until Scottish control was asserted.<ref name=Smith/> The modern economy of the island is based on crofting, fishing, transport and tourism. ...useum and visitor centre.<ref name=Keay/> There are various folk tales and modern literary references to island life.
  28 KB (4,634 words) - 16:54, 18 April 2019
• Stirlingshire
  ...ce, for it served as the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland into the early modern period, and throughout the Middle Ages it held the vital strategic point be ...s could resume their own country, until the advance of the English and the Scots. These lands appear to have been the frontier between [[Northumbria]] and
  13 KB (2,078 words) - 19:21, 18 January 2021
• West Lothian
  ...nds and the [[Highlands]]; the lower ground where Forth is fordable and in modern days bridgeable: the Forth Bridges cross to Fife at [[South Queensferry]]. ...re stand the remains of [[Linlithgow Palace]], birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots. The main coastal town is [[Bo'ness]], once the port of [[Borrowstoun]] (wh
  13 KB (2,009 words) - 14:00, 30 May 2017
• County Kilkenny
  ...' which estimated that 11,000 acres of the county is native forested land, Scots pine was regarded as non-native, representing 2.15% of the county.<ref name ...sraige &mdash;their name means people of the Deer&mdash; inhabited much of modern County Kilkenny and parts of neighbouring [[County Laois]]. To the west and
  47 KB (6,906 words) - 10:14, 16 February 2019
• Terminology of the British Isles
  ...'Principality of Wales', or just 'the Principality', although this has no modern geographical or constitutional basis. ...historical term for a peninsula in France that largely corresponds to the modern French province is ''Lesser'' or ''Little Britain''. That region was settle
  53 KB (8,268 words) - 18:48, 5 January 2024
• Achanduin Castle
  ...ing his notes. They noted that the excavations took place at a time before modern archaeological techniques so the notes were not always the easiest to under ...he Isles in 1293. The MacDougalls, supported by John Balliol, then King of Scots, refused to turn Lismore over to Alexander MacDonald and in June 1292, he a
  6 KB (1,029 words) - 13:42, 2 March 2022
• Aberdeen
  |scots=Aiberdeen ...literally means "the mouth of the Don" in relation to the local river. The modern name Aberdeen literally means between the Dee (the other local river) and D
  51 KB (7,818 words) - 20:24, 20 July 2017