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Caledonii

A Dictionary of British History | 2004 | | Copyright

Caledonii The people of the Scottish Highlands. For a people on the fringes of the known world, the Caledonians make an appearance in the works of a surprising number of Roman writers. Xiphilinus tells us that they were actually a confederation of tribes rather than a single entity. Confederation is confirmed by Tacitus, who records that Calgacus, who addressed the Caledonians before the battle of Mons Graupius, was ‘one of many leaders’. Tacitus described them as red‐haired and large‐limbed.

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Caledonii

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | Copyright

Caledonii, Caledonians. A P-Celtic people of ancient Scotland, part of the larger Pictish population, who occupied land from the Tay valley to the Great Glen and gave their name to the Roman name for Scotland, Caledonia. The Caledonian confederation included peoples over an even wider area, as far north as Sutherland. As P-Celts, the Caledonii may have been more closely related to the Britons, who are ancestors of the modern Welsh, than they are to the Q-Celtic Scots, who came from Ireland.

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Caledonii

A Dictionary of World History | 2000 | Copyright

Caledonii The ancestors of the PICTS, the inhabitants of Scotland, known to the Romans as Caledonia.

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