THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 685–848

Pictland (kingdom of Fortriu)

Fortriu, the leading Pictish kingdom, now generally placed north of the Mounth around the Moray Firth (Woolf 2006) rather than in Strathearn. Its kings became kings of all the Picts after Bridei son of Beli defeated Northumbria at Dun Nechtain in 685; that Pictish kingdom lay north of the Forth, minus Dál Riata in Argyll.

It merged with Dál Riata into the kingdom of Alba under Kenneth MacAlpin c. 843–848. Frontiers are conjectural.

See Pictland (kingdom of Fortriu) on the map in 685

On the map
685–848
Capital
Burghead / Craig Phadrig (Moray)

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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