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Scottish literature

literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers
Class type of: British literature Q2180995

Facts

5 properties

Identity

Instance of
sub-set of literature
Native label
Scottish literature, litreachas na h-Alba, Scottish leeteratur[6][7][8]
More facts +3
Subclass of
British literature[2]
Part of
culture of Scotland[3]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[4][5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Scottish literature ar الأدب الإسكتلندي cs skotská literatura da Skotsk litteratur de schottische Literatur es Literatura de Escocia fr littérature de l'Ecosse fr littérature de l'Écosse fr littérature écossaise hu skót irodalom it Letteratura scozzese ja スコットランド文学 ko 스코틀랜드 문학 nl Schotse literatuur ro literatura scoțiană ru Литература Шотландии ru Шотландская литература tr İskoç edebiyatı uk Шотландська література zh 蘇格蘭文學
🔖 Identifiers · 13
OpenAlex ID
C22124211
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Three great men of Scottish literature.JPG ↗
BBC Things ID
9ce9bd61-6f1c-48ee-b23e-15d0557999c4
Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID
8-7691
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
art/Scottish-literature
Freebase ID
/m/01j9dg
Harper's tag
scottish-literature
Larousse ID
litterature/Écosse/173059
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
22124211
NL CR AUT ID
ph254519
Quora topic ID
Scottish-Literature
SVKKL authority ID
0208066-skotska-literatura
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Topic's main category
Category:Scottish literature

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🔗 Connections
← Category's main topic 2
Category:Scottish literature, Category:Scottish non-fiction literature
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Part of 1
culture of Scotland
Subclass of 1
British literature
Topic's main category 1
Category:Scottish literature
← Field of work 1
John Galt
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Summary

Scottish literature is a sub-set of literature[1].

Related Entities

British literature

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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'ca', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'gd', 'hu', 'it', 'mk', 'nl', '
    Harper's tag → scottish-literature
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: scottish-literature, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289962412|scottish literature (#289962412)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
  2. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → British literature
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Scottish literature
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0208066-skotska-literatura, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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