The Maeatae were a confederation of tribes that probably lived beyond the Antonine Wall in Roman Britain. The historical sources are vague as to the exact...

of the 2nd Century AD, the actual Caledones would have likely had the Maeatae peoples between themselves and the Antonine Wall. During the reign of Commodus...

of the River Forth as "Caledonia", and described it as inhabited by the Maeatae and the Caledonians (Latin: Caledonii). Other ancient authors, however...

Cassius Dio, the inhabitants of Caledonia were the Caledonians and the Maeatae. Other ancient authors used the adjective "Caledonian" to mean anywhere...

Scotland. The name is thought to originate from Dun (hill fort) of the Maeatae. Although relatively small (its height is 418 metres), the characteristic...

Tay estuary. 210 ? Caracalla leads an expedition against the rebellious Maeatae tribe. 211 ? 4 February – Severus dies at York, while preparing another...

eventually went on to form the Maeatae mentioned by Cassius Dio. Other archaic accounts, which mention the Caledonii and Maeatae as the two major Pictish tribes...

administration had to deal with several rebellions, including those of the Maeatae. In the past some have thought that she might have been Pescennia Plautiana;...

was obliged to buy peace from a fractious northern tribe known as the Maeatae. The succession of militarily distinguished governors who were subsequently...

centuries AD, most of modern Scotland, inhabited by the Caledonians and the Maeatae, was not incorporated into the Roman Empire with Roman control over the...

Caereni, Carnonacae, Cat, Cornovii, Creones, Damnonii, Decantae, Lugi, Maeatae, Novantae, Picts, Selgovae, Scoti, Smertae, Taexali, Vacomagi, and Venicones...

feeling that their position was desperate, revolted later that year with the Maeatae. Severus prepared for another protracted campaign within Caledonia. He...

building a fort at Doune instead, but the rock may have been occupied by the Maeatae at this time. It may later have been a stronghold of the Manaw Gododdin...

hours. During the Iron Age, the local people of the area were known as the Maeatae and it was they who constructed a powerful hillfort nearby. The early village...

widely against his neighbours, as far afield as Orkney and lands of the Maeatae, on the River Forth. Áedán appears to have been very successful in extending...

Toxandri / Texuandri?) Segni Graioceli (more probably a Celtic tribe) Maeatae / Maiates / Maiatae / Maiati / Miathi (probably a Southern Pictish tribal...

Septimius Severus arrived in Scotland in 208, and campaigned against the Maeatae (based in the central Midland Valley on either side of the Firth of Clyde...

further west in Galloway, the Novantae. In addition, a group known as the Maeatae, probably in the area around Stirling, appear in later Roman records. The...

Septimius Severus, claiming to be provoked by the belligerence of the Maeatae tribe, campaigned against the Caledonian Confederacy, a coalition of Brittonic...

against the Miathi mentioned by Adomnán. The Miathi appear to have been the Maeatae, a tribe in the area of the upper river Forth. This campaign was successful...

it seems likely that Dumyat is intended, a hillfort associated with the Maeatae, who had been attacked a generation earlier by Domnall Brecc's formidable...

Clan Chattan ?-present Confederation of clans in the Scottish Highlands. Maeatae ?-3rd cent. AD Tribal confederation in Roman Britain. Tanukhids 196-1100...

throne the previous year. In the north he was obliged to buy peace from the Maeatae. Fearful that they would ally with the Caledonian Confederacy and unable...

from the tribes immediately north of the wall however, trouble from the Maeatae and the Caledonian Confederacy appear to have required expeditions north...

of the line lay a thinly populated area including the kingdoms of the Maeatae (in Angus), Dalriada (in Argyll), and the kingdom whose kaer (castle) near...

Isle) Epidii (Kintyre and neighboring islands) Lugi (southern Sutherland) Maeatae / Maetae (Miathi?) Smertae (central Sutherland) Tribe of unknown name in...

is also thought that the name may refer to the use of the island by the Maeatae as a royal burial site. The island was the site of one of the earliest...

Tay estuary. 210 Caracalla leads an expedition against the rebellious Maeatae tribe. 211 4 February – Severus dies at York, while preparing another expedition...

century – early 3rd century Maeatae and Caledones by the mid 4th century, Verturiones and Dicalydones The territory of the Maeatae extended between the Firth...

Emperor Severus ineffectively campaigned against them. Known then as the Maeatae, the local Picts would ultimately push south to the Firth of Forth and...