Scotia
![A mapping of the Roman divisions of Ireland and Scotland with the Scoti shown as a tribal grouping in the north of Ireland](/Images/godic/202502/09/Public_Schools_Historical_Atlas_-_Roman_Britain_4000641.jpg")
![A map from 1654 illustrating the latter use of Scotia for Scotland and Hibernia/Ivverna for Ireland](/Images/godic/202502/09/Blaeu_-_Atlas_of_Scotland_1654_-_SCOTIA_ANTIQUA_-_Old_Scotland0641.jpg")
Scotia was originally a Roman name for Ireland, inhabited by the people they called Scoti or Scotii. Use of the name shifted in the Middle Ages to designate the part of the island of Great Britain lying north of the Firth of Forth, the Kingdom of Alba. By the later Middle Ages it had become the fixed Latin term for what in English is called Scotland.