Kingdom of Scotland
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| Kingdom of Scotland | ||||||||||
| Rìoghachd na h-Alba (Gaelic ) Kinrick o Scotland (Scots) | ||||||||||
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| Motto [Nemo me impune lacessit] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (Latin) "No one provokes me with impunity" "Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh" (Gaelic) '"Wha daur meddle wi me?"' (Scots) | ||||||||||
| Capital | Edinburgh¹ | |||||||||
| Languages | Gaelic, Scots | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
| Monarch | ||||||||||
| • | 843-858 | Kenneth I | ||||||||
| • | 1567–1625 | James VI | ||||||||
| • | 1702-1707 | Anne | ||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament of Scotland | |||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | United | 843 | ||||||||
| • | Lothian and Strathclyde incorporated | 1124 (confirmed Treaty of York, 1237) | ||||||||
| • | Galloway incorporated | 1234/5 | ||||||||
| • | Hebrides, Isle of Man and Caithness incorporated | 1266 (Treaty of Perth) | ||||||||
| • | Orkney and Shetland annexed | 1472 | ||||||||
| • | Acts of Union | May 1, 1707 | ||||||||
| Currency | Pound Scots (Pund) | |||||||||
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| ¹ By the early modern era established at Edinburgh, and before that Scone & various. | ||||||||||
The Kingdom of Scotland was a historic country. It later combined with the Kingdom of England to become the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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| Kingdom of Scotland c843-1707 |
Succeeded by: Kingdom of Great Britain 1707-1801 |
Succeeded by: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801-1921 |
Succeeded by: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1921 |
