In addition to Mousa there are significant ruins at Clickimin, Culswick, Old Scatness and West Burrafirth, although their origin and purpose is a matter of some controversy.

Hunter ( 2000 ) states that in relation to King Bridei I of the Picts in the sixth century AD: " As for Shetland, Orkney, Skye and the Western Isles, their inhabitants, most of whom appear to have been Pictish in culture and speech at this time, are likely to have regarded Bridei as a fairly distant presence .” In 2011 the collective site, " The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland " including Broch of Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof joined the UKs " Tentative List " of World Heritage Sites.

In 2011 the collective site, " The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland " including Broch of Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof joined the UK's " Tentative List " of World Heritage Sites.

In 2010 " The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland " including Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof was added to the those seeking to be on the " tentative list " of World Heritage Sites.

The uninhabited islands include Mousa, known for the Broch of Mousa, the finest preserved example in Scotland of these Iron Age round towers, St Ninian's Isle connected to Mainland by the largest active tombolo in the UK, and Out Stack, the northernmost point of the British Isles.

The island is known for the Broch of Mousa, an Iron Age round tower, and is designated as a Special Protection Area for storm-petrel breeding colonies.

Mousa Broch is the best preserved Iron Age fortification in the British Isles.

The Iron Age Broch of Mousa

In Shetland they sometimes cluster on each side of narrow stretches of water: the broch of Mousa, for instance, is directly opposite another at Burraland in Sandwick.

There are five extant examples of towers with significantly higher walls: Dun Carloway on Lewis, Dun Telve and Dun Troddan in Glenelg, Mousa in Shetland and Dun Dornaigil in Sutherland, all of whose walls exceed 6. 5 m ( 21 ft ) in height.

Mousa ( " moss island ") is a small island in Shetland, Scotland, uninhabited since the nineteenth century.

Mousa lies a mile off the east coast of Mainland Shetland about south of Lerwick.

The spectacular brochs were built, most impressively the near complete broch at Mousa on Shetland.

Broch of Mousa is the finest preserved example of a broch or round tower in Shetland, Scotland.

On top of Mousa broch, Shetland, UK

Hamid Majid Mousa ( Arabic, حميد مجيد موسى ) is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party.

Mousa as seen from the mainland ; the broch is visible on the right.

Mousa has survived intact to such a height and is thought to never have been much higher than it is today.

Mousa is mentioned in the Orkneyinga Saga as being used as a place of defence during invasions, as well as a lovers ' hideout.

The entrance passage into Mousa is long, reflecting the enormous thickness of its walls.

Mousa is known for grey and common seals, guillemots, Arctic Terns and storm-petrels.

Numerous brochs were erected at that time of which the Broch of Mousa is the finest preserved example of these round towers.

Mousa Ali, the highest point in the region and the whole of Djibouti, is located in the northern part of the Tadjourah Region.

Located on the island of Mousa ( at ), it stands 44 feet ( 13 m ) high and is accessible via a single entrance at ground level.

In the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh is a large rim sherd from the broch of Mousa, probably found during the 19th century clearance.

Mousa Broch is well known among birders for its breeding European Storm-petrels, which are best seen after dark on partly or on completely overcast summer nights.

Musa Gibril Bala Gaye ( born August 13, 1946 ), also known as Mousa G. Bala Gaye, is a Gambian politician, economist, banker and diplomat.

In Persian the word Pishva means Imam and leader and refers to the mausoleum of Imamzadeh Ja ' far, who is considered the son of the seventh Shi ' ite Imam, Imam Mousa Al-Kazim.

Then, upon his arrival in Mexico, he discovers that that famed " mousterpiece ", the Mousa Lisa, is missing, and that it is up to him to find the culprit.

Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook (; born 9 January 1951, Rafah, Gaza Strip ) is a Palestinian senior member of Hamas.

Some well known Assyrian / Syriac singers in modern times are Ashur Bet Sargis, Sargon Gabriel, Michael Dayan, Habib Mousa, Josef Özer, Janan Sawa, Klodia Hanna, Juliana Jendo, and Linda George.

Al-Zahar can also be considered the top Gaza-based ally of Khaled Meshal and Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, the heads of the Hamas " State Bureau " who most contend today are the true leadership of the movement since the assassination of Ahmad Yassin and his spokesman Abdelaziz Rantisi.

Mousa on the Carta Marina in 1539

Its secretary, Hamid Majid Mousa, accepted a position on the Interim Iraq Governing Council.

According to Sir Louis Bols, great pressure was brought to bear on the military administration from Zionist leaders and officials such as David Yellin, to have the Mayor of Jerusalem, Mousa Kazzim al-Husayni, dismissed, given his presence in the Nabi Musa riots of the previous March.

About 10 kilometres South of Elon Moreh, whilst on land belonging to Beita village they came across a farmer, Mousa Saleh Bani Shamseh.

The list was led by Hamid Majid Mousa, who served on the Governing Council, and also included Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi who served as minister of culture on the interim government.

Marzook was listed as a Specially Designated Terrorist by the U. S. Treasury Department in 1995, and is currently on the renamed Treasury department Specially Designated National list under such alternative spellings of his name as Dr. Musa Abu-Marzuq, Sa ' id Abu-Marzuq, Mousa Mohamed Abou Marzook, Musa Abu Marzouk, and Musa Abu Marzuk, and under the alias " Abu -' Umar.

In 2012, Mousa Abu Marzook, a high-ranking Hamas official in competition with Haniyeh for Hamas ' top leadership post, gave an interview in which he expressed a range of opinions, some of which differed from the organisation's actual stance.

Pipes has accused CAIR of demanding that a billboard declaring Osama bin Laden " the sworn enemy " be brought down in 1998 as " offensive to Moslems ", denying bin Laden's responsibility for the Africa embassy bombings, calling the conviction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers " a travesty of justice ," calling the conviction of the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman a " hate crime ", calling the extradition order of suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook " anti-Islamic ", calling President Bush's closing of the Holy Land Foundation for collecting money used to support Hamas " unjust " and " disturbing ", praising and defending convicted murderer H. Rap Brown as well as convicted attempted murderer Adnan Chaudhry, and their LA office head calling Israelis " zionazis "; he also quotes the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism Steven Pomerantz saying that CAIR " effectively " gives aid to international terrorist groups.

Working with the Baghdad Zoo directors Dr. Adel Salman Mousa and Dr. Husham Mohamed Hussan and a few returning staff they began caring for and feeding the remaining animals, restoring basic hygiene standards, and stabilizing the situation.

Mousa was the first captain to hold The Lebanese Championship Cup for Nejmeh after The Civil War in 2000.

In March 2008 the Ministry of Defence admitted breaching the human rights of Baha Mousa, who died in British custody in Basra, and of eight other Iraqi men held at the same facility, opening the way for a multimillion-pound compensation package for the relatives of Baha Mousa and the other men injured during illegal interrogations.