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The Hebrides were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth, after which time control of the islands north of Ardnamurchan was in the hands of the Earls of Ross.
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Hebrides and were
The first of the modern review articles on the subject ( MacKie 1965 ) did not, as is commonly believed, propose that brochs were built by immigrants, but rather that a hybrid culture of a small number of immigrants with the native population of the Hebrides produced them in the first century BC, basing them on earlier, simpler promontory forts.
In the past the Outer Hebrides were often referred to as the Long Isle ().
The Hebrides were settled during the Mesolithic era around 6500 BC or earlier, after the climatic conditions improved enough to sustain human settlement.
North of Dál Riata, the Inner and Outer Hebrides were nominally under Pictish control although the historical record is sparse.
The Hebrides were now part of the Kingdom of the Isles, whose rulers were themselves vassals of the Kings of Norway.
Following the ill-fated 1263 expedition of Haakon IV of Norway, the Outer Hebrides and the Isle of Man were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth.
With the implementation of the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Hebrides became part of the new Kingdom of Great Britain, but the clans ' loyalties to a distant monarch were not strong.
However, in the mid-19th century, the inhabitants of many parts of the Hebrides were devastated by the clearances, which destroyed communities throughout the Highlands and Islands as the human populations were evicted and replaced with sheep farms.
The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.
Writing about 80 years later, in 140-150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of Agricola, also distinguished between the Ebudes, of which he writes there were only five ( and thus possibly meaning the Inner Hebrides ) and Dumna.
His death halted any further Norwegian expansion in Scotland and following this ill-fated expedition, the Hebrides and Mann were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth, although the Scots recognised continuing Norwegian sovereignty over Orkney and Shetland.
The Norse settlers were to some extent integrating with the local Gaelic population ( see-Gall Gaidheal ) in the Hebrides and Man.
Attempts to eliminate hedgehogs from bird colonies on the Scottish islands of North Uist and Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides were met with international outrage.
The Hebrides and the Isle of Man were made subject to Norway by King Magnus Barefoot c. 1100.
In the 19th century when the islands were known as the New Hebrides, the British possessed economic control of the zone, though by the end of 1880, the economic balance began to favor the French ; this transition can be seen in its nickel mines of New Caledonia and plantations.
Other Allied land, naval and air force units were sent to establish or reinforce bases in Fiji, Samoa, New Hebrides and New Caledonia.
The reasons for the waves of immigration were complex and bound to the political situation in Scandinavia at that time ; moreover, they occurred when Viking settlers were also establishing their presence in the Hebrides, Orkney, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, France ( Normandy ), Russia and Ukraine ( see Kievan Rus ').
During the period known as Blackbirding, in the 1870s and 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Pacific islanders ( many of them from the New Hebrides ( now Vanuatu ) archipelago ) were enslaved and forced to work on plantations, mainly in Queensland, Australia and Fiji.
A less thorough survey in 2007 showed that in addition to large numbers of territories in the Scottish Highlands and the Inner and Outer Hebrides, there were a handful of birds in southern Scotland and northern England.
The fleet left Bergen in July, and reached Shetland and Orkney in August where they were joined by chieftains from the Hebrides and Man.
His descendants were kings in the Isle of Man and the Hebrides until the 13th century.
And there were killed in his company Mac Ruaidhri, king of Insi-Gall Hebrides Ailean mac Ruaidhri and Mac Domhnaill, king of Argyll, together with slaughter of the Men of Scotland around him.
Hebrides and yielded
Following this ill-fated expedition, the Hebrides and Mann and all rights that the Norwegian crown " had of old therein " were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth.
Hebrides and Kingdom
Latterly, the Outer Hebrides remained under the control of Godred V of the Isle of Man while the Inner Hebrides south of Ardnamurchan and the islands of the Clyde became part of the Kingdom of the Hebrides controlled by Somerled.
Vanuatu ( formerly the New Hebrides ) obtained independence from France and the United Kingdom in 1980.
The Western Isles and Man continued as to be called the " Kingdom of Man and the Isles ", but the Inner Hebrides came under the influence of Somerled, a Gaelic speaker, who was styled ' King of the Hebrides '.
Haakon sought to defend the Norwegian sovereignty over the islands in the west, namely the Hebrides and Man ( under the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles ), Shetland and Orkney ( under the Earldom of Orkney ), and the Faroe Islands.
Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom.
The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD.
From the 9th to 13th centuries almost all of the Hebrides came under the control of Norse settlers and formed part of the Kingdom of the Isles.
The United Kingdom has a large number of skerries including Staple Island ( an Outer Farne Island ) in England, a small rocky outcrop near the Fowlsheugh in northeast Scotland and numerous reefs in the Hebrides such as Dubh Artach and Skerryvore.
Since the MacLeods appear to have gained Lewis long after the Hebrides was incorporated into the Kingdom of Scotland, the tradition may well refer instead to the MacNeacails.
The constituency area is that of the Outer Hebrides, known also as < em lang =" gd "> Na h-Eileanan Siar </ em >, and the constituency has the smallest electorate in the United Kingdom, one-fifth of the size of the largest, the Isle of Wight, with the latter also being an island constituency.
In 1965, the United Kingdom also claimed the two islands, as part of the New Hebrides.
* Ebudae ( Inner Hebrides ), United Kingdom ( also the title of another Enya song released at a later date ).
This is because the Isle of Man was part of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, which included the Hebrides, known in Old Norse as the Suðreyjar, ( anglicised as " The Sudreys ") i. e. " Southern Isles " in contradistinction to Norðreyjar (" The Nordreys "), or the " Northern Isles ", i. e. Orkney and Shetland.
Some sources suggest the specific occasion was the Battle of Largs, which marked the beginning of the departure of King Haakon IV ( Haakon the Elder ) of Norway who, having control of the Northern Isles and Hebrides, had harried the coast of the Kingdom of Scotland for some years.
With its motto, " Pride In Protection ", the squadron conducted its first live-firing exercise at the Royal Artillery Range in Hebrides, the United Kingdom in July 1984, and participated in its first overseas deployment exercise in 1985 in Exercise Air Thai-Sing ( now known as Exercise Cope Tiger ) at Chandy Range in Thailand.
Hebrides and Scotland
Caithness, Sutherland and the Northern Isles have the densest concentrations, but there are also a great many examples in the west of Scotland and the Hebrides.
Most of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland have a bedrock formed from Lewisian gneiss.
The Hebrides (; Scottish Gaelic: Innse Gall ) comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
The Inner Hebrides lie closer to mainland Scotland and include Islay, Jura, Skye, Mull, Raasay, Staffa and the Small Isles.
The Outer Hebrides are a chain of more than 100 islands and small skerries located about west of mainland Scotland.
The Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland describes the Inner Hebrides as lying " east of The Minch ", which would include any and all offshore islands.
Norse control of the Hebrides was formalised in 1098 when Edgar of Scotland formally signed the islands over to Magnus III of Norway.
The use of Scots and English became prominent in recent times but the Hebrides still contain the largest concentration of Scottish Gaelic speakers in Scotland.
Iona () is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland.
As such many of these islands fell under Norwegian and Ui Imair hegemony between the 9th and 13th centuries and this Norse influence would see almost constant warfare on the western seaboard of Scotland until the partitioning of the Hebrides in 1156.
* Lewis, an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Catholicism was the majority religion in various pockets, notably in parts of Lancashire and Cumbria, and, in Scotland, in parts of the Highlands and the southern Hebrides ( i. e. South Uist, Benbecula, Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay ).
The Small Isles ( Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Tarsainn ) are a small archipelago of islands in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland.
Soay (, ) is an island just off the coast of Skye, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
In Scotland, Caledonian MacBrayne provides passenger and RO-RO ferry services in the Firth of Clyde, to various islands from Oban and within the inner and outer Hebrides.
They also settled in the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Scotland ( Caithness, the Hebrides and the Northern Isles ), Greenland, and Canada.
By the mid-9th century the Norsemen had settled in Shetland, Orkney ( the Nordreys-Norðreyjar ), the Hebrides and Man, ( the Sudreys-Súðreyjar-this survives in the Diocese of Sodor and Man ) and parts of mainland Scotland.
The Outer Hebrides (, ) also known as the Western Isles and the Long Island, is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
Haakon died in 1263 while on campaign against Scotland, defending his claim to the overlordship of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
Named targets include Ireland, the Hebrides, Scotland and England.
The family was centred in the Hebrides, and claimed descent from a 13th century Irish bard who, according to legend, was exiled to Scotland.
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