Back برلمان إسكتلندا Arabic Парламент на Шотландия Bulgarian Skotlands Stænderforsamling Danish Parliament of Scotland German Parliament of Scotland English Parlamento de Skotlando Esperanto Parlamento de Escocia Spanish مجلس پادشاهی اسکاتلند Persian Skotlannin parlamentti (lakkautettu 1707) Finnish Parlement d'Écosse French
The Parliament of Scotland, officially the Estates of Parliament, was the legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland.
The parliament of Scotland had only one house (cf. House of Commons, House of Lords) and was mentioned for the first time during the early thirteenth century, and the first meeting one knows of was in 1235, during the reign of Alexander II of Scotland.[1]
The parliament, which is also referred to as the Estates of Scotland, the Three Estates the Scots Parliament or the auld Scots Parliament (English: old), merged with the Parliament of England in the Acts of Union in 1707. This formed the Kingdom of Great Britain, which later became the United Kingdom.
- ↑ K. Brown and R. Tanner, History of the Scottish Parliament, i, 'introduction'.