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The '''Picts''' were a people who lived in what is now north-eastern [[Scotland]] in the Early Middle Ages. Their confederation of tribes in northern Scotland eventually ran from Fife to Caithness. The Picts were in general agrarian, living in small communities, similar in culture to most other celts including Pagan animistic polytheism. In 843 A.D. they united with the kingdom of the Scots or [[Dál Riata]] and were assimilated into the Scottish nation.
The '''Picts''' were a people who lived in what is now north-eastern [[Scotland]] in the Early Middle Ages. Their confederation of tribes in northern Scotland eventually ran from Fife to Caithness. The Picts were in general agrarian, living in small communities, similar in culture to most other celts including Pagan animistic polytheism. In 843 A.D. they united with the kingdom of the Scots or [[Dál Riata]] and were assimilated into the Scottish nation.
Broadly speaking, the Pictish territory was bound to the south by the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, by the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde to the south-west, in the west by the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata and, from about the 9th century onwards, by Norse territories to the north.
The kingdom recorded in Old English as ''[[Wærteras]]'' (sometimes referred to as 'Fortriu') is thought to have been the dominant Pictish kingdom, and is thought to have been centred around the Moray Firth.
Broadly speaking, the Pictish territory was bound to the south by the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, by the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde to the south-west, in the west by the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata and, from about the 9th century onwards, by Norse territories to the north. The areas controlled by the Picts broadly covered the Scottish counties [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Angus]], [[Banffshire]], [[Caithness]], [[Cromartyshire]], [[Fife]], [[Inverness-shire]], [[Kincardineshire]], [[Moray]], [[Nairnshire]], [[Perthshire]], [[Ross-shire]], [[Stirlingshire]] and [[Sutherland]] as well as the Northern Isles, [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]].
==Writing & Language==
==Writing & Language==
The Picts had their own system of writing, Pictish. However, little survives today, so the history of the Picts themselves is a largely "academically recreated" history from other sources.
The Picts had their own system of writing, Pictish. However, little survives today, so the history of the Picts themselves is a largely "academically recreated" history from other sources.