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Nearby .... Dull Fortingall Invervar Kenmore Logierait Feedback Credits Maps .... For a closer look at the area, load our Perthshire Map where you can choose your destination! Links .... Scottish Tourist Board Scottish Towns	The name Breadalbane is derived from the gaelic Braghaid Albainn or Uplands of Scotland and was so termed by the Scots of Dairiada, who, under Kenneth McAlpin (843 AD), began to gather together the ancient Celtic peoples, the Picts, with the Britons of Strathclyde and the Angles of Lothian to form a country close in make-up to the Scotland of today. The Scots settled from lreland on the Western coastland from around 300 AD between Kintyre and Ross-shire. Over the next 500 years they made considerable progress into the Breadalbane heartland that had been populated (and protected so fiercely) by Pictish peoples speaking a language similar to the ancient Welsh/Celtic tongue. Eventually all reference to Pictavia was lost and only a few place names remain of Pictish origin. Gaelic remained the dominant language in the area until it was 'drummed' out of the Breadalbane people around 1800/1850. Gaelic diminished steadily from that period on; the last Gaelic speaker indigenous to the area died in the 1970s in Glen Lyon.
	Last updated June 2001
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