Caledonia
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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)]]''
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'''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]]
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