Welcome to Scotland
Hello we're here today to talk to you about one of Europe's beautiful yet mysterious places that has over seven hundred islands. The territory is rumored to have a monster lurching in the depths of one of Scotland's most well known bodies of water. In this website I want to give you Scotland's history, it's facts, and some of it's beautiful landmarks. I hope you enjoy this website.
eARLY HISTORY
Scotland's very interesting history is yet another one of it's stunning features.
In the early years of Scotland there was no trace of activity since large ice sheets called glaciations covered Scotland for many many years which caused its history to start only 10,000 years ago. It began with the Roman Empire moving over to Scotland. Shortly after the Roman's came the “painted ones” (Picti people) who forced the Roman's many legions back. After this, the invasion of the Norse Vikings started attack Scotland which led to Scotland getting beat many times. This caused the Gaelics and the Picti to unite in the 9th century and form what today is the Kingdom of Scotland. They started to trade with other countries in the late Bronze Age and due to a shortage of trees way back most of the houses and structures were made of stone. Soon after, the people of Scotland got their first king. Centuries later at the time of world war l Scotland played a major role of supplying much manpower and a whole lot of warships to reinforce the British. At the time Scotland only had a population of 4.8 million and they sent over half a million men. When the war was over a quarter of the people died and 150,000 thousand were wounded. After the war Scotland expanded their shipbuilding industry by a third and expected to hit major prosperity but in 1922 a major depression occurred and they didn't recover until 1939.
BEAUTIFUL LANDMARKS
Loch Ness is in the Scottish Highlands and extends for 23 miles. It is the second largest Loch in Scotland. its deepest point is 755 feet deep and also it holds a monster that is called Nessie. The first picture of the Loch Ness monster was by Hugh Grey and the monster is supposedly a plesiosaurus.
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The Kelpies are mythical water horses. They're made out of stainless steel cladding
and were created by Andy Scott in 2008. The Kelpies are supposed to be supernatural water horses who have the power of ten horses combined. Each kelpie weighs 300 tons. There is also a 1;10 scale version of the Kelpies in Glasgow studios. |
The Edinburgh castle is built on a 700 million year old volcano. It was created in 12th century and the Edinburgh castle holds a cannon that is fired one o'clock everyday except Sundays Christmas and good Friday.
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The Fingals are on the uninhabited island called Staffa and became famous in the 18th century by a heroic poet. The Fingals also produce eerie sounds by the echoes in the waves. The roofs of the caves are usual arched and very beautiful.
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SCOTLAND FACTS
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