Scotia was originally a Latin geographical expression of the territory inhabited by the people Latin writers called Scoti, the early Gaels. As such it became a common name for Ireland, the island also written, as it was known to the Romans, Hibernia. 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'd become the fixed Latin term for what in English's called Scotland.… (More on Scotia)