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Fortriu

Fortriu (Latin: Verturiones; Old Irish: *Foirtrinn; Old English: Wærteras; Pictish: *Uerteru) was a Pictish kingdom recorded between the 4th and 10th centuries. It was traditionally believed to be located in and around Strathearn in central Scotland, but is more likely to have been based in the north, in the Moray and Easter Ross area. Fortriu is a term…

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related to References · 87
Fortriu → Aberdeen's Northern Picts, AD, Adams, Alan Orr, Alasdair, Alba, Alex, Anderson, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, Benjamin, Birlinn, Brepols, Carol Ann, Ce, Celtic Scotland, Collected, Conceiving, Dén Nechtain, Early Historic Scotland, Early Sources
related to Location · 53
Fortriu → Additions, Alba, Alex Woolf, Ancient Alban, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Annals, Another, Berchán, Celtic Scotland, Chronicle, Clackmannanshire, Columba, De Situ Albanie, Despite Skene's, Dub, Early Kings, Early Middle Ages, Fib, Fife, Forres
related to Verturian hegemony · 35
Fortriu → Adomnan, Adomnan's Life, After, As, Battle, Bede, Beli, Bridei, Bridei's, By, Cenél Loairn, Columba, Columba's, Dun Nechtain, Dunottar, Dál Riata, Ecgfrith, Forth, Fortriu's, Gaels
related to Name · 34
Fortriu → Adams, Ammianus Marcellinus, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Annals, Bede, Brittonic, Common Brittonic, Fortrenn, Fortress People, Fortrinn, Goidelic, Gw, Indo European, John Rhys, King, Latin, Maigh Fortrenn, Mallory, Old English
related to The Viking Age · 28
Fortriu → Although, Annals, Auisle, Battle, Boanta, Bran, British, Britons, Dublin, Dublin Amlaíb, Dumbarton Rock, Dál Riata, English, Gaelic Dál Riata, House, Moray Firth, Onuist, Pictish, Picts, Strathclyde
related to Fragmentation and disappearance · 25
Fortriu → Alba, Alban, Cathróe, Chronicle, Dunottar, England, Fragmentary Annals, Ireland, Irish Annals, King, King Aethelstan, Kings, Malcolm, Men, Metz, Moray, Ross, Scandinavian, Scotia, Scottish-born
related to Roman Iron Age · 21
Fortriu → Agricola, Although, Ammianus Marcellinus, Birnie, Britons, Decantae, Dicalydones, Elgin, Germany, Great Conspiracy, It, Latin, Moray Firth, Pictish, Picts, Ptolemy's Geography, Roman, Rome, The Verturiones, Vacomagi
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Fortriu → modern reconstruction of a nominative form for this word that has survived only in these genitive and dative cases, term used by historians as it is not known what name its people used to refer to their polity

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pictish scotland moray name picts isbn king kings century north son edinburgh ross annals may alba verturiones recorded also latin

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Fortriuis aterm used by historians as it is not known what name its people used to refer to their polity0.90text
Fortriuis amodern reconstruction of a nominative form for this word that has survived only in these genitive and dative cases0.90text
Germanyinstance ofbut archeological discoveries at Birnie near Elgin indicate that Rome had remained in diplomatic contact with the area throughout the 2nd century.The Verturiones may have emerge…0.80text
where areas beyond the border saw population groups amalgamating into fewer but larger political units.As well as the two Pictish groupingsinstance ofbut archeological discoveries at Birnie near Elgin indicate that Rome had remained in diplomatic contact with the area throughout the 2nd century.The Verturiones may have emerge…0.80text
the conspiracy of 367instance ofbut archeological discoveries at Birnie near Elgin indicate that Rome had remained in diplomatic contact with the area throughout the 2nd century.The Verturiones may have emerge…0.80text
Fortriurelated to Fragmentation and disappearanceThe Annals0.60section
Fortriurelated to Fragmentation and disappearanceUlster0.60section
Fortriurelated to Fragmentation and disappearanceScandinavian0.60section
Fortriurelated to Fragmentation and disappearanceAlban0.60section
Fortriurelated to Fragmentation and disappearanceKing0.60section
Fortriurelated to Fragmentation and disappearanceAlba0.60section
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