Note on Medieval Scotland

Note on Medieval Scotland .... 

01) Scotland...Our history, our heritage, our heart, our home...
02) Medieval Scotland
03) Scotland in the Middle Ages
04) Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: 1100-1707 Certificate
05) Scottish medieval history documents put online
06) Medieval Scotland ... Slide Share 
07) Saints and Saints' Cults
08) Edinburgh University ... Undergraduate Course: Medieval Scotland (HIST07001)
09) Scotland in the High Middle Ages
10) Scotland in the Late Middle Ages
11) Scottish society in the Middle Ages
12) Story of Scotland
13) MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: GENERAL MAPS
14) The Succession Crisis, 1286-1292
15) Wars of Scottish Independence
16) King Robert the Bruce of Scotland (1306 - 1329)
17) House of Stuart
18) James I of Scotland
19) The Stuart Dynasty
20) Video:  House of Stuart
21) Video: King of Scots 'Robert the Bruce'
22) Youtube Channel: SCOTTISH HISTORY
23) ইংল্যান্ডের সাথে স্কটল্যান্ড যুক্ত হওয়ার ইতিহাস
24) UK History 
25) British History Online 
26) UK Civil War and Revolution

Extracts ........
1) Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
2) The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled as William the Conqueror. LINK
3) Vikings  from Old Norse víkingr, were Norse seafarers, speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Scandinavian homelands across wide areas of northern, central and eastern Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries. LINK
The word Viking in the sense in which it is commonly used is derived from the Old Norse víkingr signifying a sea-rover or pirate. : LINK
4) Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during about the 9th to 13th centuries.
 .... Today Old Norse has developed into the modern North Germanic languages Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish, of which Norwegian, Danish and Swedish retain considerable mutual intelligibility.
5) Scotland established its independence from England under figures including William Wallace in the late thirteenth century and Robert Bruce in the fourteenth century. LINK
6) Kenneth MacAlpin (810 – 13 February 858), was a king of the Picts who, according to national myth, was the first king of Scots. He was thus later known by the posthumous nickname of An Ferbasach, "The Conqueror".[2] The dynasty that ruled Scotland for much of the medieval period claimed descent from him. LINK
7) The Stone of Scone also known as the Stone of Destiny .... The Stone of Scone was last used in 1953 for the coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
8) The Honours of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny were both used throughout history in the crowning of Scottish, English and British monarchs.   LINK
9) During the reign of the Stuarts, Scotland developed from a relatively poor and feudal country into a prosperous, modern and centralised state. LINK 
10) The Stuart Dynasty .......The Stuart dynasty began with Robert II taking the throne as King of Scots in 1371, and ended with the death of Anne of Great Britain in 1714.
In total, 15 monarchs ruled Scotland over 343 years. Five of these also ruled England, while Anne of Great Britain was the last Queen of Scots, the last Queen of England and the first monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
11) Stuart kings and queens with dates that they ruled
12) The Stuarts were the first kings of the United Kingdom. King James VI of Scotland became also King James I of England, thus combining the two thrones for the first time. LINK
13) 12 facts about the Stuarts
14) Bernicia (Old English: Bernice, Beornice; Latin: Bernicia) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.
15)  At the close of the ninth century, various competing kingdoms occupied the territory of modern Scotland.  ... LINK
16) The House of Alpin, also known as the Alpínid dynasty, Clann Chináeda, and Clann Chinaeda meic Ailpín, was the kin-group which ruled in Pictland and then the kingdom of Alba from the advent of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín) in the 840s until the death of Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) in 1034. .... LINK
17) The High Middle Ages of Scotland encompass Scotland in the era between the death of Domnall II in 900 AD and the death of King Alexander III in 1286, which was an indirect cause of the Scottish Wars of Independence. .... LINK  
18) The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled as William the Conqueror. ... LINK

Modern Scotland .....01) An abundance of natural resources such as coal, iron and zinc contributed significantly to the industrial growth of Scotland during the 19th and early 20th centuries.[8] Today, energy is a major component of Scotland's economy.[9] Whilst Scotland is the largest producer of petroleum in the European Union, the production potential of renewable energy has emerged as an important economic and environmental issue in recent years ... LINK