Alpin
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Alpin may refer to:
- Alpin (supplement), a weekly supplement of Prothom AloProthom AloProthom Alo is a major daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language.-History:Prothom Alo was founded on 4 November 1998. As at January 2009, it had an average circulation of 435,000...
, a Bangladeshi newspaper - Alpín mac EchdachAlpín mac EchdachAlpín mac Eochaid may refer to two persons. The first person is a presumed king of Dál Riata in the late 730s. The second is the father of Kenneth MacAlpin...
, two kings of the same name - one the father of Cináed mac Ailpín, the other a king of Dál Riata - Siol AlpinSiol AlpinSiol Alpin, , is a family of seven Scottish clans that were thought to have been able to trace their descent from Alpin, supposed father of Cináed mac Ailpín, King of the Picts, of whom the Scots tradition considered the first King of Scots...
, a group of seven related Scottish Clans - House of AlpinHouse of AlpinThe House of Alpin is the name given to the kin-group which ruled in Pictland and then the kingdom of Alba from the advent of Cináed mac Ailpín in the 840s until the death of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda in 1034....
, a dynasty of Scottish kings - King Alpín I of the PictsAlpín I of the PictsAlpín was king of the Picts in the 720s, together with Drest. The Pictish Chronicle king lists give Alpín and Drest a five year joint rule. Alpín is a Pictish form of the Old English Ælfwine and may, perhaps, indicate a tie to Bernician exiles in Pictland, such as Eanfrith, father of Talorgan mac...
- King Alpín II of the PictsAlpín II of the PictsAlpín son of Uuroid was king of the Picts.On anthroponymic grounds Alpin may have been the brother of his predecessor Ciniod son of Uuredach as both have similar patronyms, the Pictish equivalent of the Old Irish Feredach, but no certain evidence exists for this identification, nor for an...
- Metro AlpinMetro AlpinThe Metro Alpin is the highest subway in the world. It is an underground funicular situated above Saas Fee in Switzerland in the Valais canton....
, the highest subway in the world in Saas Fee, Switzerland