Scotland
There were many petty kingdoms in Scotland before its unification. They can be grouped by language:
- Cumbric (see Hen Ogledd):
- Gododdin
- Strathclyde
- Rheged
- Pictish:
- Fortriu
- Pictavia
- Cait
- Ce, situated in modern Mar and Buchan
- Circinn, perhaps situated in modern Angus and the Mearns
- Fib, the modern Fife, known to this day as 'the Kingdom of Fife'
- Fidach, location unknown
- Fotla, modern Atholl (Ath-Fotla)
- Anglo-Saxon:
- Bernicia
- Northumbria (also extended into England)
- Gaelic:
- Dál Riata
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