Scotland's HistoryEarly ScotlandColumba founds a monastery on Iona
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The Gaelic kings of Dál Riata gave Columba land to found a monastery. For the next two centuries Iona was to be one of the most famous centres of Christian learning in the Celtic world. Video: A history of Scotland: The Last of the Free.
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