Alba

''
Alba'' ( , ) is the
Scottish Gaelic name for
Scotland. It is also, in English-language historiography, used to refer to the polity of
Picts and
Scots united in the ninth century as the
Kingdom of Alba, until it developed into the
Kingdom of Scotland of the late Middle Ages following the absorption of
Strathclyde and English-speaking
Lothian in the 12th century. It is
cognate with the Irish term '
(gen. ', dat. '
) and the Manx term ', the two other
Goidelic Insular Celtic languages, as well as contemporary words used in
Cornish ('
) and Welsh ('), both of which are
Brythonic Insular Celtic languages. The third surviving Brythonic language,
Breton, instead uses '''', meaning 'country of the Scots'. In the past, these terms were names for
Great Britain as a whole, related to the Brythonic name
Albion.
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