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Roman name for Scotland
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caledonia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Roman name of part of northern Britain, taken from the name of former inhabitants, which is of unknown origin, perhaps Celtic; since 18c, applied poetically to Scotland or the Scottish Highlands. Related: Caledonian .
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 2327 Housing Units (2000): 939 Land area (2000): 2.135357 sq. miles (5.530549 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.135357 sq. miles (5.530549 sq. km) FIPS code: 11704 Located within: New ...
Wikipedia
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Caledonia is the eighth studio album by the German melodic death metal band SuidAkrA . The lyrical themes of Caledonia are the mystical side of the tribe of the Picts , their war against the attacking Roman Empire and the co-incidence of these two completely ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caledonia \Cal`e*do"ni*a\, n. The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry.
Usage examples of caledonia.
In return, we will immediately have shipped to Caledonia, and to your town of Aberdeen, enough repeating rifles and submachine guns to arm each of your clannsmen.
New Caledonia and New Delhi, from Dushanbe and Kuang-chou, from Kiev and Cairo.
The Tweed, several fathoms wide, digs a deeper trench between Scotland and England than the twenty leagues of Irish Channel, which separates Old Caledonia from the Emerald Isle.
Most families of Caledonia had at least as many children as that, and a large percentage of males was certainly preferable, considering the number of casualties taken by the clanns-men in raids and in defense of the flocks.
If such were not the bann, the vendettas would soon accumulate to such degree that all Caledonia would be depopulated.
Thus is youth, especially on Caledonia, where, long since, man and nature had eliminated the unfit.
It would seem that these men from the League, as they called it, were as mystified by the institutions of Caledonia as John and his fellow phyletics were by the ways of the men from Beyond.
He wondered how long it must take to come from the Beyond to Caledonia and how the otherworldlings could bear to be confined, whatever the time involved.
But if you plan to land anywhere on Caledonia, sooner or later the clannsmen would take their revengement.
Until nowhere on all Caledonia will you be safe from the revengement of the Hawks.
The Clann Hawk of every confederation on all Caledonia will hear of the shame done their bloodline and will be watching for you.
Surely there is no illness on all Caledonia more fearsome than the pox.
Obviously, some great power, un-known on all Caledonia, was involved, and these from Beyond controlled powers unbeknown to the holiest bedel or Keeper of the Faith.
We are interested in bringing, ah, civilization to Caledonia, so that its minerals can be exploited.
After that, Caledonia will have to be colonized all over again, soma being soma.