Caledonians

The Caledonians or Caledonian Confederacy, is a name given by historians to a group of the Indigenous peoples of Scotland during the Iron Age that the Romans initially included as Britons,but later distinguished as the Picts. The Caledonians were enemies of the Roman Empire, which was the occupying force then and administering over most of Great Britain as a Roman province called Britannia. We do not know by what name the Caledonians called themselves, though possibly based on the word which is in Modern British caled hard, tough plus the Celtic great suffix, thus caledonos great, hard tough person, caledonia great, hard tough people the Caledonians, like many Brythonic tribes, were hillfort builders and farmers who defeated and were defeated by the Romans on several occasions. The Romans never fully occupied the territory they called Caledonia and resistance by the Caledonians was one of the factors that led to the Romans abandonment of plans to occupy the area... Mehr