Шотландия

Scientists believe that the first people appeared in Scotland approximately 8 thousand years ago. The first permanent settlements date back to the 6th thousands of years ago. The written history of Scotland begins with the Roman conquest of Britain, when we were occupied, received the status of the Roman provinces and became known as the British territory of modern England and Wales. Part of the South of Scotland was for a short time taken under the indirect control of Rome. To the North lay of the land, free from the Roman conquest, "Caledonia, populated пиктскими and the Gaelic tribes. After the departure of the Romans these tribes have created several kingdoms, including Gaelic Kingdom Gave Riyadh, situated on the part of the two British Islands of Ireland and great Britain. Scottish part was approximately on the territory of modern Аргайла. Kingdom Пиктия included in Фортриу, but the history of the Scottish Kingdom traditionally takes its countdown to 843 of the year, when Kenneth Макальпин became king of the United Kingdom of the Scots and Picts.