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Index Fortriu

Fortriu (Verturiones; *Foirtrinn; Wærteras; *Uerteru) was a Pictish kingdom recorded between the 4th and 10th centuries.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 117 relations: Adomnán, Alex Woolf, Amlaíb Conung, Ammianus Marcellinus, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Anglo-Saxons, Angus, Scotland, Annals of Ulster, Argyll, Attacotti, Auisle, Áed mac Boanta, Æthelstan, Ímar ua Ímair, Óengus I, Battle of Dun Nechtain, Bede, Bridei I, Bridei IV, Bridei son of Beli, British Isles, Brittonic languages, Cathróe of Metz, Causantín mac Fergusa, Cáin Adomnáin, Cenél Loairn, Cenél nÓengusa, Cenél nGabráin, Central Lowlands, Chronicle of Melrose, Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, Clackmannanshire, Columba, Comgall mac Domangairt, Common Brittonic, Conall mac Taidg, Curetán, Dative case, Dál Riata, De Situ Albanie, Deanery, Decantae, Dicalydones, Dub, King of Scotland, Dunnottar Castle, Earl of Moray, Early Middle Ages, Easter Ross, Eóganan mac Óengusa, Eben William Robertson, ... Expand index (67 more) »

  2. Former countries in the British Isles
  3. Pictish territories
  4. Picts
  5. States and territories disestablished in the 10th century
  6. States and territories established in the 4th century

Adomnán

Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona (Adamnanus, Adomnanus; 624 – 704), also known as Eunan (from), was an abbot of Iona Abbey (679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint.

See Fortriu and Adomnán

Alex Woolf

Alex Woolf (born 12 July 1963) is a British medieval historian and academic.

See Fortriu and Alex Woolf

Amlaíb Conung

Amlaíb Conung (Óláfr; died c. 874) was a Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century.

See Fortriu and Amlaíb Conung

Ammianus Marcellinus

Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born, died 400), was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity (preceding Procopius).

See Fortriu and Ammianus Marcellinus

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

See Fortriu and Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

See Fortriu and Anglo-Saxons

Angus, Scotland

Angus (Angus; Aonghas) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.

See Fortriu and Angus, Scotland

Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster (Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland.

See Fortriu and Annals of Ulster

Argyll

Argyll (archaically Argyle; Earra-Ghàidheal), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.

See Fortriu and Argyll

Attacotti

Attacotti, Atticoti, Attacoti, Atecotti, Atticotti, and Atecutti were Latin names for a people first recorded as raiding Roman Britain between 364 and 368, alongside the Scoti, Picts, Saxons, Roman military deserters and the indigenous Britons themselves.

See Fortriu and Attacotti

Auisle

Auisle or Óisle (Ásl or Auðgísl; died c. 867) was a Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century.

See Fortriu and Auisle

Áed mac Boanta

Áed mac Boanta (died 839) is believed to have been a king of Dál Riata.

See Fortriu and Áed mac Boanta

Æthelstan

Æthelstan or Athelstan (– 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939.

See Fortriu and Æthelstan

Ímar ua Ímair

Ímar ua Ímair (Ívarr, died 904); also known as Ivar II, was a Norse-Gaelic King of Dublin.

See Fortriu and Ímar ua Ímair

Óengus I

Óengus son of Fergus (*Onuist map Vurguist; lit; died 761) was king of the Picts from 732 until his death in 761.

See Fortriu and Óengus I

Battle of Dun Nechtain

The Battle of Dun Nechtain or Battle of Nechtansmere (Old Welsh: Gueith Linn Garan) was fought between the Picts, led by King Bridei Mac Bili, and the Northumbrians, led by King Ecgfrith, on 20 May 685.

See Fortriu and Battle of Dun Nechtain

Bede

Bede (Bēda; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar.

See Fortriu and Bede

Bridei I

Bridei son of Maelchon (died 586) was King of the Picts from 554 to 584.

See Fortriu and Bridei I

Bridei IV

Bridei son of Der-Ilei (Bruide mac Derilei; died 706) was king of the Picts from 697 until 706.

See Fortriu and Bridei IV

Bridei son of Beli

Bridei son of Beli, died 692 was king of Fortriu and of the Picts from 671 until 692.

See Fortriu and Bridei son of Beli

British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.

See Fortriu and British Isles

Brittonic languages

The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; yethow brythonek/predennek; and yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic.

See Fortriu and Brittonic languages

Cathróe of Metz

Saint Cathróe (circa 900–971) was a monk and abbot.

See Fortriu and Cathróe of Metz

Causantín mac Fergusa

Causantín or Constantín mac Fergusa ("Constantine son of Fergus") (789–820) was king of the Picts, in modern Scotland, from 789 until 820.

See Fortriu and Causantín mac Fergusa

Cáin Adomnáin

The Cáin Adomnáin ("Law of Adomnán"), also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Gaelic and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697.

See Fortriu and Cáin Adomnáin

Cenél Loairn

The Cenél Loairn, the descendants of Loarn mac Eirc, controlled parts of northern Argyll around the Firth of Lorne, most probably centred in Lorne but perhaps including the islands of Mull and Colonsay, Morvern and Ardnamurchan.

See Fortriu and Cenél Loairn

Cenél nÓengusa

The Cenél nÓengusa were a kin group who ruled the island of Islay, and perhaps nearby Colonsay, off the western coast of Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

See Fortriu and Cenél nÓengusa

Cenél nGabráin

The Cenél nGabráin was a kingroup, presumed to descend from Gabrán mac Domangairt, which dominated the kingship of Dál Riata until the late 7th century and continued to provide kings thereafter.

See Fortriu and Cenél nGabráin

Central Lowlands

The Central Lowlands, sometimes called the Midland Valley or Central Valley, is a geologically defined area of relatively low-lying land in southern Scotland.

See Fortriu and Central Lowlands

Chronicle of Melrose

The Chronicle of Melrose is a medieval chronicle from the Cottonian Manuscript, Faustina B. ix within the British Museum.

See Fortriu and Chronicle of Melrose

Chronicle of the Kings of Alba

The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, or Scottish Chronicle, is a short written chronicle covering the period from the time of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín) (d. 858) until the reign of Kenneth II (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim) (r. 971–995).

See Fortriu and Chronicle of the Kings of Alba

Clackmannanshire

Clackmannanshire (Clackmannanshire; Siorrachd Chlach Mhanann), or the County of Clackmannan, is a historic county, council area, registration county and lieutenancy area in Scotland, bordering the council areas of Stirling, Fife, and Perth and Kinross.

See Fortriu and Clackmannanshire

Columba

Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.

See Fortriu and Columba

Comgall mac Domangairt

Comgall mac Domangairt was king of Dál Riata in the early 6th century.

See Fortriu and Comgall mac Domangairt

Common Brittonic

Common Brittonic (Brythoneg; Brythonek; Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, is an extinct Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany.

See Fortriu and Common Brittonic

Conall mac Taidg

Conall mac Taidg (died c. 807) (Conall son of Tadc) was a king of the Picts from 785 until 789.

See Fortriu and Conall mac Taidg

Curetán

Saint Curetán (Latin: Curitanus, Kiritinus, or Boniface) was a Scoto-Pictish bishop and saint, (fl. between 690 and 710).

See Fortriu and Curetán

Dative case

In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, as in "", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".

See Fortriu and Dative case

Dál Riata

Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and north-eastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel. Fortriu and Dál Riata are former countries in the British Isles.

See Fortriu and Dál Riata

De Situ Albanie

De Situ Albanie (or dSA for short) is the name given to the first of seven Scottish documents found in the so-called Poppleton Manuscript, now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

See Fortriu and De Situ Albanie

Deanery

A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway.

See Fortriu and Deanery

Decantae

The Decantae were a people of ancient Britain, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer Ptolemy c. 150. Fortriu and Decantae are Picts.

See Fortriu and Decantae

Dicalydones

The Dicalydones were mentioned by the 4th century writer Ammianus Marcellinus as one of the two branches of the Picti, the Picts, the inhabitants of modern-day Scotland (the other being the Verturiones). Fortriu and Dicalydones are Picts.

See Fortriu and Dicalydones

Dub, King of Scotland

Dub mac Maíl Coluim (Modern Gaelic: Dubh mac Mhaoil Chaluim), Dub mac Maíl Coluim is the Mediaeval Gaelic form.

See Fortriu and Dub, King of Scotland

Dunnottar Castle

Dunnottar Castle (Dùn Fhoithear, "fort on the shelving slope") is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-eastern coast of Scotland, about south of Stonehaven.

See Fortriu and Dunnottar Castle

Earl of Moray

The title Earl of Moray, or Mormaer of Moray, was originally held by the rulers of the Province of Moray, which existed from the 10th century with varying degrees of independence from the Kingdom of Alba to the south.

See Fortriu and Earl of Moray

Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century.

See Fortriu and Early Middle Ages

Easter Ross

Easter Ross (Ros an Ear) is a loosely defined area in the east of Ross, Highland, Scotland.

See Fortriu and Easter Ross

Eóganan mac Óengusa

Uuen son of Onuist (Eogán mac Óengusa; died 839), commonly referred to by the hypocoristic Eóganán, was king of the Picts between A.D. 837–839.

See Fortriu and Eóganan mac Óengusa

Eben William Robertson

Eben William Robertson (17 September 1815 – 3 June 1874) was a British historian.

See Fortriu and Eben William Robertson

Ecgfrith of Northumbria

Ecgfrith (Ecgfrið; 64520 May 685) was the King of Deira from 664 until 670, and then King of Northumbria from 670 until his death in 20 May 685 possibly at age of 31.

See Fortriu and Ecgfrith of Northumbria

Elgin, Moray

Elgin (Ailgin; Eilginn) is a historic town (former cathedral city) and formerly a royal burgh in Moray, Scotland.

See Fortriu and Elgin, Moray

Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

See Fortriu and Ethnicity

Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. Fortriu and Fife are Pictish territories.

See Fortriu and Fife

Forres

Forres (Farrais) is a town and former royal burgh in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately northeast of Inverness and west of Elgin.

See Fortriu and Forres

Fothriff

Fothriff or Fothrif was a province of Scotland in the Middle Ages.

See Fortriu and Fothriff

Fragmentary Annals of Ireland

The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland or Three Fragments are a Middle Irish combination of chronicles from various Irish annals and narrative history.

See Fortriu and Fragmentary Annals of Ireland

Franks

Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.

See Fortriu and Franks

Fullofaudes

Fullofaudes was a Dux Britanniarum, a military leader in Roman Britain in the later fourth century.

See Fortriu and Fullofaudes

Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

See Fortriu and Gaels

Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.

See Fortriu and Genitive case

Geography (Ptolemy)

The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις,, "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.

See Fortriu and Geography (Ptolemy)

Gnaeus Julius Agricola

Gnaeus Julius Agricola (13 June 40 – 23 August 93) was a Roman general and politician responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain.

See Fortriu and Gnaeus Julius Agricola

Goidelic languages

The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.

See Fortriu and Goidelic languages

Gowrie

Gowrie (Gobharaidh) is a region in central Scotland and one of the original provinces of the Kingdom of Alba.

See Fortriu and Gowrie

Grampian Mountains

The Grampian Mountains (Am Monadh) is one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, that together occupy about half of Scotland.

See Fortriu and Grampian Mountains

Great Conspiracy

The Great Conspiracy was a year-long state of war and disorder that occurred near the end of Roman Britain.

See Fortriu and Great Conspiracy

Great Glen

The Great Glen (An Gleann Mòr), also known as Glen Albyn (from the Gaelic Gleann Albainn "Glen of Scotland") or Glen More (from the Gaelic Gleann Mòr), is a glen in Scotland running for from Inverness on the edge of the Moray Firth, in an approximately straight line to Fort William at the head of Loch Linnhe.

See Fortriu and Great Glen

Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

See Fortriu and Hagiography

High Middle Ages

The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300.

See Fortriu and High Middle Ages

Historia Regum

The Historia Regum ("History of the Kings") is a historical compilation attributed to Symeon of Durham, which presents material going from the death of Bede until 1129.

See Fortriu and Historia Regum

House of Óengus

The House of Óengus is a proposed dynasty that may have ruled as Kings of the Picts and possibly of all of northern Great Britain, for approximately a century from the 730s to the 830s AD.

See Fortriu and House of Óengus

Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

See Fortriu and Ireland

Irish annals

A number of Irish annals, of which the earliest was the Chronicle of Ireland, were compiled up to and shortly after the end of the 17th century.

See Fortriu and Irish annals

John Rhŷs

Sir John Rhŷs, (also spelled Rhys; 21 June 1840 – 17 December 1915) was a Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, Celticist and the first professor of Celtic at Oxford University.

See Fortriu and John Rhŷs

Kingdom of Alba

The Kingdom of Alba (Scotia; Alba) was the Kingdom of Scotland between the deaths of Donald II in 900 and of Alexander III in 1286. Fortriu and Kingdom of Alba are former countries in the British Isles.

See Fortriu and Kingdom of Alba

Kingdom of Strathclyde

Strathclyde (lit. "broad valley of the Clyde",, Cumbria) was a Brittonic kingdom in northern Britain during the Middle Ages.

See Fortriu and Kingdom of Strathclyde

Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

See Fortriu and Latin

Life of Columba

The Life of Columba (Vita Columbae) is a hagiography recounting the life of Columba, the founder of Iona Abbey, written a century after Columba's death by Adomnán, one of his successors as Abbot of Iona.

See Fortriu and Life of Columba

List of Scottish monarchs

The monarch of Scotland was the head of state of the Kingdom of Scotland.

See Fortriu and List of Scottish monarchs

Macbeth, King of Scotland

Macbethad mac Findláech (anglicised as Macbeth MacFinlay; died 15 August 1057), nicknamed the Red King (Rí Deircc), was King of Scotland from 1040 until his death in 1057.

See Fortriu and Macbeth, King of Scotland

Malcolm I of Scotland

Máel Coluim mac Domnaill (anglicised Malcolm I; died 954) was king of Alba (before 943–954), becoming king when his cousin Constantine II abdicated to become a monk.

See Fortriu and Malcolm I of Scotland

Menteith

Menteith or Monteith (Mòine Tèadhaich), a district of south Perthshire, Scotland, roughly comprises the territory between the Teith and the Forth.

See Fortriu and Menteith

Metz

Metz (Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then Mettis) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.

See Fortriu and Metz

Moray

Moray (Moireibh or Moireabh) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland.

See Fortriu and Moray

Moray Firth

The Moray Firth (An Cuan Moireach, Linne Mhoireibh or Caolas Mhoireibh) is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of the north of Scotland.

See Fortriu and Moray Firth

Mounth

The Mounth is the broad upland in northeast Scotland between the Highland Boundary and the River Dee, at the eastern end of the Grampians.

See Fortriu and Mounth

Nechtan mac Der-Ilei

Naiton son of Der-Ilei (Nechtan mac Derilei; died 732), also called Naiton son of Dargart (Nechtan mac Dargarto), was king of the Picts between 706–724 and between 728–729.

See Fortriu and Nechtan mac Der-Ilei

Nominative case

In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.

See Fortriu and Nominative case

North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

See Fortriu and North Sea

Northumbria

Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.

See Fortriu and Northumbria

Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

See Fortriu and Old English

Old Irish

Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann-Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts.

See Fortriu and Old Irish

Orkney

Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.

See Fortriu and Orkney

Perthshire

Perthshire (locally:; Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland.

See Fortriu and Perthshire

Pictish language

Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.

See Fortriu and Pictish language

Picts

The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.

See Fortriu and Picts

Province of Moray

Moray (Muréb; Moravia; Mýræfi) was a province within the area of modern-day Scotland, that may at times up to the 12th century have operated as an independent kingdom or as a power base for competing claimants to the Kingdom of Alba.

See Fortriu and Province of Moray

Provinces of Scotland

The provinces of Scotland were the primary subdivisions of the early Kingdom of Alba, first recorded in the 10th century and probably developing from earlier Pictish territories.

See Fortriu and Provinces of Scotland

Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

See Fortriu and Ptolemy

River Findhorn

The River Findhorn (Uisge Éire) is one of the longest rivers in Scotland.

See Fortriu and River Findhorn

River Forth

The River Forth is a major river in central Scotland, long, which drains into the North Sea on the east coast of the country.

See Fortriu and River Forth

River Ness

The River Ness (Abhainn Nis) is a river in Highland, Scotland, UK.

See Fortriu and River Ness

Romanitas

Romanitas is the collection of political and cultural concepts and practices by which the Romans defined themselves.

See Fortriu and Romanitas

Rosemarkie

Rosemarkie (Rossmartnie, from Ros Mhaircnidh meaning "promontory of the horse stream") is a village on the south coast of the Black Isle peninsula in Ross-shire (Ross and Cromarty), northern Scotland.

See Fortriu and Rosemarkie

Ross, Scotland

Ross (Ros) is a region of Scotland.

See Fortriu and Ross, Scotland

Saxons

The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany.

See Fortriu and Saxons

Scoti

Scoti or Scotti is a Latin name for the Gaels,Duffy, Seán.

See Fortriu and Scoti

Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

See Fortriu and Scotland

Siege of Dumbarton

The siege of Dumbarton was a successful four-month siege of the Brittonic fortress at Dumbarton Rock in 870, initiated by the Viking leaders Amlaíb, King of Dublin, and Ímar.

See Fortriu and Siege of Dumbarton

Strathearn

Strathearn or Strath Earn, also the Earn Valley, is the strath of the River Earn, which flows from Loch Earn to meet the River Tay in the east of Scotland.

See Fortriu and Strathearn

The Prophecy of Berchán

The Prophecy of Berchán is a relatively long historical poem written in the Middle Irish language.

See Fortriu and The Prophecy of Berchán

Vacomagi

The Vacomagi were a people of ancient Britain, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer Claudius Ptolemy (AD c.100–c.170). Fortriu and Vacomagi are Picts.

See Fortriu and Vacomagi

Valentinian I

Valentinian I (Valentinianus; 32117 November 375), sometimes called Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375.

See Fortriu and Valentinian I

Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

See Fortriu and Vikings

Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.

See Fortriu and Welsh language

William Forbes Skene

William Forbes Skene WS FRSE FSA(Scot) DCL LLD (7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892), was a Scottish lawyer, historian and antiquary.

See Fortriu and William Forbes Skene

See also

Former countries in the British Isles

Pictish territories

Picts

States and territories disestablished in the 10th century

States and territories established in the 4th century

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortriu

Also known as Fortrenn, Kingdom of Fortriu, Verturian, Verturiones, Waerteras.

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