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Battle of Dollar is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.1619°, -3.6739°.

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Battle of Dollar

Battle of Dollar in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Battle of Dollar is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The Battle of Dollar was fought in 875 at Dollar, Scotland, between Viking invaders under Halfdan Ragnarsson and the defenders led by King Constantine I. The Vikings had previously been part of the Great Heathen Army which had been assaulting the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England before moving to a base by the river Tyne to raid the lands of the Picts and Strathclyde Britons. The battle ended in victory for the Vikings who occupied the east-central lowlands of Scotland for a year before settling in Northumbria. Constantine was forced back to the highlands of Atholl and would later die in a further battle with the Vikings in 876. The Picts disappear from the record after the devastation of 875–878.

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The first Viking raids in Scotland targeted the community of Iona which was attacked four times between 795 and 825. This threat encouraged the union of the Picts and Scots with Kenneth MacAlpin becoming the first king to rule both from 843. Kenneth's son Constantine I would succeed to the throne in 862 after the death of Constantine's uncle, Donald I. The Great Heathen Army invaded England in 865 with Halfdan Ragnarsson among their leaders, taking York in 867. After invading the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the army divided in 874 and Halfdan took his forces to a base on the Tyne from where he raided the Picts and the Kingdom of Strathclyde.

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