The 1872 association football match between the national teams of Scotland and England is officially recognised by FIFA as the sport's first-ever international. It took place on 30 November 1872 at Hamilton Crescent, the West of Scotland Cricket Club's ground in Partick, Glasgow.The match was watched by 4,000 spectators and finished as a 0–0 draw.

Scotland (Scots: Scotland, Scottish Gaelic: Alba [ˈal̪ˠapə] ()) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a 96-mile (154-kilometre) border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and the Irish Sea to the …

The degree of Master of Arts (MA; Scots: Maister o Arts, Scottish Gaelic: Maighstir nan Ealan) in Scotland typically refers to an undergraduate degree. The degree can be either a three-year general or four-year Honours degree in humanities or social sciences, awarded by one of several institutions.. Chiefly, these are the ancient universities of Scotland—the University of St …

Loch (/ l ɒ x /) is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet.It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch.. In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spelling lough is commonly found in place names; in Lowland Scots and Scottish English, the spelling "loch" is always used.Many loughs are connected to …

Glen Eagles (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann na h-Eaglais/Gleann Eagas) is a glen which connects with Glen Devon to form a pass through the Ochil Hills of Perth and Kinross in Scotland. (The spelling as two words, 'Glen Eagles', is as shown on UK Ordnance Survey maps.) The name's origin has nothing to do with eagles, and is a corruption of eaglais or ecclesia, meaning church, and refers …

The High Middle Ages of Scotland encompass Scotland in the era between the death of Domnall II in 900 AD and the death of King Alexander III in 1286, which was an indirect cause of the Wars of Scottish Independence.. At the close of the ninth century, various competing kingdoms occupied the territory of modern Scotland. Scandinavian influence was dominant in the northern and …

Iso-Britannia (engl. Great Britain) on Atlantin valtameressä Euroopan mantereesta luoteeseen sijaitseva saari. Saari on suurin Britteinsaarista ja muodostaa suurimman osan Yhdistyneen kuningaskunnan pinta-alasta.Se on Euroopan suurin saari ja koko maailmassakin yhdeksänneksi suurin. Väestöä siellä on maailman saarista kolmanneksi eniten, Jaavan ja Honshun jälkeen.

Jääkiekon alle 18-vuotiaiden maailman­mestaruus­kilpailut on Kansainvälisen jääkiekkoliiton IIHF:nvuosittain järjestämä jääkiekkoturnaus.Turnaus järjestetään eri maiden alle 18-vuotiaiden jääkiekkomaajoukkueille. Se pelataan usein huhtikuussa ja järjestetään samanlaisella järjestelmällä kuin miesten- ja nuorten maailmanmestaruuskilpailut.

Scotland, most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom, occupying about one-third of the island of Great Britain. The name Scotland derives from the Latin Scotia, land of the Scots, a Celtic people from Ireland who settled on the west coast of Great Britain about the 5th century CE. The name Caledonia has often been applied to Scotland, especially in poetry. It is derived from ...

Scotland was divided into a series of kingdoms in the early Middle Ages, i.e. between the end of Roman authority in southern and central Britain from around 400 CE and the rise of the kingdom of Alba in 900 CE. Of these, the four most important to emerge were the Picts, the Gaels of Dál Riata, the Britons of Alt Clut, and the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia.