Caledonia 2233278 225063638 2008-07-11T18:34:11Z Ben MacDui 2259739 Amend category: Caledonia is not generally thought of as being in "southern" Scotland : ''This article is about Caledonia as a name for northern Britain. For other uses, see [[Caledonia (disambiguation)]]'' {{Wikisource1911Enc|Caledonia}} '''Caledonia''' is the [[Latin]] name given by the [[Roman Empire]] to a northern area of the island of [[Great Britain]]. The use of the name sometimes refers specifically to the area north of the [[Antonine Wall]]. The name represents that of a [[Picts|Pictish]] tribe, the '[[Caledonians|Caledonii]]', one amongst several in the region, though perhaps the dominant tribe. Their name can be found in 'Dùn Chailleann', the [[Scottish Gaelic]] word for the town of [[Dunkeld]], and ''Sidh Chailleann'' or [[Schiehallion]], "Fairy [hill] of the Caledonians". The modern use of 'Caledonia' in [[English language|English]] and [[Scots language|Scots]] is as a romantic or poetic name for [[Scotland]]. 'Scotland' itself is derived from [[Scotia]], the Latin term for [[Ireland]], from which the [[Scoti]] peoples originated before resettling in northern Great Britain. ==See also== *[[Hadrian's Wall]] *[[Mons Graupius]] [[Category:History of Scotland]] [[Category:Scotland during the Roman Empire]] [[Category:Scottish culture]] {{Scotland-hist-stub}} [[cs:Kaledonie]] [[es:Caledonia]] [[eo:Kaledonio]] [[fr:Calédonie]] [[ja:カレドニア]] [[no:Caledonia]] [[pt:Caledônia]] [[ru:Каледония]] [[fi:Kaledonia]] [[zh:加勒多尼亞]]