Vacomagi

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The Vacomagi were a people of ancient Scotland, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer Claudius Ptolemy (AD c.100–c.170).^[a] Their principal places are known from Ptolemy's map c.150 of Albion island of Britannia – from the First Map of Europe.^{[1][Web 1]}

The Vacomagi were a confederacy of smaller tribes, each one a separate polity with its own hierarchy of leaders. According to the data collected by Ptolemy,^[b] the Vacomagi were spread over a wide area between the Moray Firth and the Firth of Forth; to the east of the Cairngorms and north of the Clyde–Forth isthmus.^[c]

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