1437: Names for Scotland Nov 17, 2018

Some countries end up with lots of different names across other languages, including Germany and Scotland. However, with the former case, this is only because the names of different historical tribes ended up being used to describe the whole country, but the situation with Scotland is more complicated. It can and has been called 'Scotland', 'Pictland', 'Caledonia' and 'Alba': all in English. Some of these names, particularly 'Pictland' and 'Scotland' were given based off of the inhabitants, but also the other two were exonyms given by the Romans. Even if this weren't the case alone, Scotland has had many waves of inhabitants, and so many names.