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Scotia was described by the Romans as an island. Scotia eadem et Hibernia, "Scotland and Ireland are the same country" (Isidore, lib. xii. c. 6). Ireland is properly the country of the Scots, says Bede. It was a way of saying "Land of the Irish"; compare ''Angli'', Anglia; ''Franci'', '''Francia'''; ''Romani'', '''Romania'''; etc. Hence, it once could be used to mean Ireland , but the connotation is still ethnic. This is how it is used, for instance, by King Robert I Of Scotland and Domhnall Ua Neill during the Scottish Wars Of Independence , when Ireland was called ''Scotia'' or ''Scotia Maiora'', and Scotland ''Scotia Minora''. However, after the 11th Century , ''Scotia'' was used mostly for northern Britain, and in this way became fixed. As a translation of Alba , Scotia could mean both the whole Kingdom belonging to the ''rex Scottorum'' , or just Scotland north of the Forth . In the bureaucratic world of the Catholic Church , Pope Leo X eventually granted Scotland exclusive right over the word, and this led to Anglo-Scottish takeovers of continental Gaelic monastaries (e.g. the Schottenklöster ). It is from ''Scotia'' that all Romance names for Scotland derive, names such as the French ''Écosse''. The term is also used in a Canadian province named Nova Scotia (New Scotland); the village of Scotia in New York State , the Scotia Sea between Antarctica and South America, and in Scotiabank , a trade name for the Bank of Nova Scotia. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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