Scottish people
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The Scots people (Scots Gaelic: Albannaich (plural)) are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.
Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celtic (Picts, Gaels, Brythons) and Germanic (Angles, Norse) populations.
In modern use "Scottish people" or "Scots" refers to anyone born or living in Scotland. In another sense, it applies to people who are descended from the Scots and who identify ethnically as Scots. While the Latin word Scoti originally...
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