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Picts

Celtic peoples to the north of the Antonine Wall in Scotland. The name Pictae or 'painted people' was first used by the Romans in AD 297. The Picts lost their independence when they were defeated in the 9th century AD by Kenneth MacAlpin of Dalriada.

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