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| | Scottish names and clans - stravaiging.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The word clan comes from the Gaelic word clann meaning 'children', and the clan system can be traced back to the kingdom of Dalriada in the west coast of Scotland. |
 | | Early in the 6th century, the area was divided between four tribes descended from the brothers who founded the colony - the Cinel Gabram, the Cinel Comgall, the Cinel Lorn and the Cinel Angus. |
 | | The Picts also divided their land along tribal lines, and had 7 provinces - Cait, Ce, Circinn, Fib, Fidach, Fotlaig, and Fortrenn - whose boundaries can still be traced today in the areas of Caithness, Marr and Buchan, Angus and Mearns, Fife, Moray and Ross, Atholl and Gowrie, and Strathearn and Menteith respectively. |
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