Scotland
by Лера Пустовгар
1. Scotland doesn't independent country and nation. It's a part of UK.
2. Alba is both the ancient and the modern Gaelic name for Scotland
3. Scotland has a temperate oceanic climate, milder than might be excepted from its latetude.
4. Scots Law
5. Kinds of Sports
6. The Act of Union of 1707
7. Protestant country
8. The Scottish Parliament outlawed the Mass, denied the authority of the pope and made Scotland into a Protestant country. Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of James V and Mary of Guise, had married the French Dauphin, Francis, in 1558, briefly becoming Queen of France in 1559. The crisis of 1559-1560 left her as Scotland's queen. She was 18 years old, and absentee, and a Roman Catholic.
9. Otstanding literary figures of Scotland
10. Robert Burns
11. Willam Wallace
12. In 1927, the angry Scots rebelled against Edward's authority. The leader of one revolt, William Wallace, decisively defeated the English as Stirling.
13. Roman built Hadrian's Wall, which stretched between the Tyne and the Solway Firth
14. From the late 1000's onwards, Scotland gradually lost it's maily Celtic Charter
15. The national flag of Scotland features a white saltire, (X-shaped cross) representing the cross of the Christian martyr Saint Andrew, Scotland's patron saint on a blue field.
16. Scottish flag is one of the oldest flags in the world.
17. coprises the northern third of the island of GB; country consist of a mainland area plus several islands groups
18. The majority of the Scottisch population lives in the Central Belt
19. Rober the Bruce
20. In 1306, Robert the Bruce, whode grandfather had been Baliol's rival for the succession in 1290, seized the throne. The Bruce began his did to free the Scottish Kingdom fron English control. In 1327, Robert vowed to renew hospitalies unless England scknowledged Scotland's independence.
21. Oliver Cromwell
22. The currency of Scotland
23. Scots law is uncodified, that is, it is not systematically arranged into a codex.
24. Scotland retained its unique legal system
25. The pound sterling
26. Enflish government controlled the Scottish government.
27. Scotland became an English province.
28. Shinty
29. Golf
30. Walter Scott
31. Ian Rankin
32. Highland Games
33. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
34. Votadini tribe was the first Roman recorded.
35. The name "Alba" first appear in 843. The resulting unified Scottish|Pictisch Kingdom became know as Alba.
