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 5/ The Shetland boxing controversy lead to delightful "revenge maps" like this where the UK 🇬🇧 is boxed. Perhaps fitting in that Shetland only joined Scotland 🏴 in the 15th century. Before that the Northern Isles (Shetland and Orkney) were part of the Kingdom of Norway 🇳🇴 10 comments
6/ Scotland 🏴 fields its own national teams in most sports, but in the Olympics Scottish athletes compete as part of the UK 🇬🇧 team. The national football team will open Euro 2024 versus hosts Germany 🇩🇪 on June 14th. Scotland has its own football leagues, which also include Berwick Rangers FC, a team based in Berwick-upon-Tweed which is just south of the border in England 🏴. 7/ Speaking of the border, many people mistakenly believe famous Hadrian's Wall to be the border between Scotland 🏴 and England 🏴. In fact it lies entirely in England, and was built by the Romans, well before Scotland and England existed The actual border has moved many times over the centuries. 8/ Heading north we have another bit of Scottish #geoweirdness - the island Lewis and Harris (Leòdhas agus na Hearadh in Scottish Gaelic), which, despite the dual name is a single island. 🤔 The Island is part of the Outer Hebrides, the area with the highest concentration of Scottish Gaelic speakers 9/ Of course no mention of 🏴 Scottish #geoweirdness would be complete without also mentioning that remote, uninhabited Rockall is - if you accept the British view - technically part of Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall Ireland 🇮🇪 does not recognise the 🇬🇧 UK's territorial claim to Rockall. 11/ In the 1690s, before unification with England 🏴, there was a short-lived effort to establish a 🏴 Scottish colony - with the main settlement being named New Edinburgh - in what is today Panama 🇵🇦. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme The settlement failed and 80% of the settlers died in the first year. The resulting financial weakness of the backers was one of the reasons for unification with England.  @opencage Sorry to report that Berwick's slightly anomalous position did not lead it to at war with Russia from 1854-1914, see https://www.berwickfriends.org.uk/history/berwicks-war-with-russia/ |
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@opencage such a passive aggressive move. I love it!