UK ( United Kingdom)
It has been used as a
fortification for over 2,000 years - there was a
hill fort there in the time of the Romans. The
earliest known inhabitants of this part of the
world were the Votadini (also known as the
Gododdin, whose language was an early form of Welsh). Their bard Aneurin sang the
praises of Din Eidyn (Dunedin or fortress on a slope) in the 6th century. After a raid
into the territory of the Angles by King Mynyddog Mwynfawr and a defeat at Catterick
in Yorkshire around AD 600, the area was subsequently captured by the Angles from
the south in 638. They did not leave until about 300 years later. But the area we now know
as Lothian was not captured and held by Malcolm II until after the Battle of Carham in 1018.
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