Scotland
Tribes in modernday
Scotland and Northern England repeatedly rebelled against Roman rule and two military bases were established
in Britannia to protect against rebellion and incursions from the north, from which Roman troops built and
manned Hadrian's
Scotland had been inhabited for thousands of years before the Romans arrived. However, it is only towards the
Roman period that Scotland is recorded in writing.
In the 4th century BC Aristotle knew of "Albinn" and "Ierne" (the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). The
Greek explorer Pytheas visited Britain sometime between 322 and 285 BC and may have circumnavigated the
mainland, which he describes as being triangular in shape. In his On the Ocean Pytheas refers to the most
northerly point as Orcas, conceivably a reference to Orkney.
The earliest written record of a formal connection between Rome and Scotland is the attendance of the "King of
annaabi.ee 
