{"id":9329,"count":2,"description":"Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name (pronounced\u00a0[\u02c8al\u02e0\u032aap\u0259]) for Scotland. It is cognate to Alba in Irish and Nalbin in Manx, the two other Goidelic Insular Celtic languages, as well as similar words in the Brythonic Insular Celtic languages of Cornish (Alban) and Welsh (Yr Alban) also meaning Scotland.\nThe term first appears in classical texts as \u1f08\u03bb\u03b2\u03af\u03c9\u03bd or \u1f08\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u0390\u03c9\u03bd (in Ptolemy's writings), later as Albion in Latin documents. Historically, the term refers to Britain as a whole and is ultimately based on the Indo-European root for \"white\". It later came to be used by Gaelic speakers in the form of Alba (dative Albainn, genitive Albann, now obsolete) as the name given to the former kingdom of the Picts which had by the time of its first usage with this meaning, expanded around the time of king Causant\u00edn mac \u00c1eda (Constantine II, 943-952). The region Breadalbane (Br\u00e0ghad Albainn, the upper part of \"Alba\") takes its name from it as well.\nAs time passed that kingdom incorporated others to the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/alba\/","name":"Alba","slug":"alba","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/9329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=9329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}