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The
kingdom of Súðreyjar ("Southern Islands"), comprising the Inner
and Outer Hebrides and Kintyre, and the HEBRIDES, THE, or WESTERN ISLES, a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland. They are situated between 55 35 and 58 30 N. and 5 26 and 8 40 W. Formerly the term was held to embrace not only all the islands off the Scottish western coast, including the islands in the Firth of Clyde, but also the peninsula of Kintyre, the Isle of Man and the Isle of Rathlin, off the coast of Antrim. Late Emporers (Septimius Severus, Caracalla) would again attempt Caledonian conquest, but at the time of Commodus in 180 AD, the status quo for the Roman's was maintaining the border along Hadrian's Wall. The Wall of Antonius, an ancient Roman wall extending across North Britain from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde. In the course of the Germanic conquest many Britons withdrew into the to Plymouth (Sutton), Powys -the West Midlands, North Devon, Briefne (Gaelic North Connacht), Caledonian region between the Firth of Clyde and Solway Firth, and there laid the foundations of what became the kingdom of Strathclyde.The adjacent region to the north was occupied toward the beginning of the 6th century by the Scots, Celtic invaders from North Ireland, who established the Gaelic kingdom that became known in history as Dalriada, including Derry, Pictland, Antrim, Breifne. The Christian faith was brought to Mann around 447 A.D. About the middle of the 6th century the Angles, a people who were related to the Saxons, overran Roman Exeter and most of Caledonia south of the Firth of Forth and east of Strathclyde. The Hebrides have been broadly classified into the Outer Hebrides and the Inner Hebrides, the Minch and Little Minch dividing the one group from the other. Geologically, the Hebrides have also been differentiated as the Gneiss Islands and the Trap Islands.
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