Kingdom of Scotland
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Kingdom of Scotland | |||||||||
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| 843–1707 | |||||||||
Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin) "No one provokes me with impunity" "Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh" (Gaelic) '"Wha daur meddle wi me?"' (Scots) | |||||||||
| Capital | Edinburgh¹ | ||||||||
| Common 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 | ||||||||
| 1266 (Treaty of Perth) | |||||||||
| 1472 | |||||||||
| May 1 1707 | |||||||||
| Currency | Pound Scots (Pund) | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | GB-SCT | ||||||||
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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 |
