The Cathedral of Alba, a Roman Catholic Church, Was Founded by Saint Columba

In the ninth century, a king called kenneth mc alpin managed to unify the pictish kingdom toge with the celtic chieftoins of delrida. He persuaded these various chieftoms and kingdoms to unite under the pressure of viking raids. And gradually the people of alba came to be referred to as scots. So this kingdom was ruled by a series of several royal dynasties all through the middle ages. It experienced a significant degree of stability and some modest prosperity,. although it was still, comparatively, a small, more poor and less significant kingdom on the outer edge of europe.