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Empire843 CE – 1707 · 864 years

Kingdom of Scotland

Overview

The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English. Following the annexation of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles from Norway in 1266 and 1472 respectively, and the capture of Berwick by England in 1482, the territory of the Kingdom of Scotland corresponded to that of modern-day Scotland, bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest.

Wikipedia: Kingdom of Scotland·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

  • SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
  • DETAILhistorical-basemaps (Ourednik)
  • SNAPSHOT1530
  • POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire103

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

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-6.0°,54.7° → -1.9°,58.6°WARS-ATLAS / EMPIRE / KINGDOM-OF-SCOTLAND

Cite as: Kingdom of Scotland (843 CE – 1707). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/kingdom-of-scotland · Sources & methodology