Écosse is the French-language word for Scotland.
Fleur d'Ecosse simply means “flower of Scotland” and Mr Flinois said it first appeared on maps in 1714. The simplest explanation is that it relates to the thistle, Scotland's national flower, as at the time the thistle was cultivated in the region.
Alba (/ˈælbə, ˈælvə/ AL-bə, AL-və, Scottish Gaelic: [ˈal̪ˠapə]) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland.
In a speech which he delivered in Edinburgh in June 1942, Charles de Gaulle described the alliance between Scotland and France as "the oldest alliance in the world".
Scotland's most famous connection with Europe was the Auld Alliance with France. First agreed in 1295/6 the Auld Alliance was built on Scotland and France's shared need to curtail English expansion.
The Scots have emigrated to mainland Europe for centuries as merchants and soldiers. Many emigrated to France, Poland, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands.
The French army in Scotland
As part of their treaty with France, the Scots had reassurances that, were war to break out between Scotland and England, France would provide military assistance for Scotland.
Historical enmities, stemming from centuries of socio-political conflict, are the chief reason Scotland fans describe England as 'The Auld Enemy' (auld meaning 'old') when the nations face off in football matches.
The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance is the world's oldest alliance in known history, established by the Treaty of Windsor in 1386. The Portuguese and English alliance was signed on May 19, 1386, between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Portugal.
The siege of Leith ended a twelve-year encampment of French troops at Leith, the port near Edinburgh, Scotland. The French troops arrived by invitation in 1548 and left in 1560 after an English force arrived to attempt to assist in removing them from Scotland.
The Scots Irish, also known as Scotch Irish (especially in USA) or Ulster Scots (especially in Northern Ireland), are an ethnic group found in the province of Ulster in the north of Ireland Genealogy.
The Scots- and Irish-Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba, derives from the same Celtic root as the name Albion, which properly designates the entire island of Great Britain but, by implication as used by foreigners, sometimes the country of England, Scotland's southern neighbour which covers the largest portion of the ...
Scots Gaelic language, also called Scottish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic Gàidhlig, a member of the Goidelic group of Celtic languages, spoken along the northwest coast of Scotland and in the Hebrides islands. Australia, the United States, and Canada (particularly Nova Scotia) are also home to Scots Gaelic communities.
There are over 170 languages spoken in Scotland, and those include Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish, Makaton, Mandarin, Punjabi, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu and many more.
Officially, it is known in French as le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
Aubigny is a common tourist destination for Scots and others from the United Kingdom. The commune is very attached to the Auld Alliance, due to its 400 years of French-Scottish history and is the only place in France that still celebrates this long association each year, on Bastille Day.
So, when WWII started, Salazar kept Portugal neutral with two main purposes: first, to keep the alliance treaty with England, probably the oldest agreement between states in the world; second, to stay close to Hitler and the fascist Axis forces, aligned with his political ideology.
Loyalists were most numerous in the South, New York, and Pennsylvania, but they did not constitute a majority in any colony. New York was their stronghold and had more than any other colony. New England had fewer loyalists than any other section.
However, despite several invasions, the Romans never managed to hold the land north of Hadrian's Wall for long. Trouble elsewhere in the empire, the unforgiving landscape and native resistance meant that Scotland was never brought fully under the administration of the Roman province of Britannia.
Rangers had been founded 15 years earlier in 1872 and had no particular religious leanings in their early decades, indeed they were described by the press as friends of Celtic in match reports at the turn of the 20th century.
IT was a typical Thursday night in 1970s downtown Glasgow with violence always lingering in the background. Hardman Hugh Collins was enjoying a few drinks in the popular Lunar Seven Bar in Buchanan Street, close to Sauchiehall Street, with friends.
16 May: Fleeing ScotlandDefeated at the Battle of Langside, Mary fled from Scotland. She crossed into England convinced her cousin and fellow monarch, Elizabeth I, would help her regain her throne.
This created a highly educated middle class. In an underdeveloped Scottish economy, however, there was a shortage of middle-class jobs and this caused many Scots to leave for the likes of England, to several of the Baltic States and to North America. The 19th century presented new opportunities in new destinations.
The Britons, speaking a Brythonic Celtic language, colonized Scotland from farther south, probably from the 1st century bce onward.