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The River Dee near Braemar

River Dee, Aberdeenshire The River Dee is a Highland river which flows mainly through Aberdeenshire, rising high in the Cairngorms and entering the sea at Aberdeen. Part of its valley, near Balmoral, is popularly known as 'Royal Deeside'. The Dee rises at the Well of Dee on the slopes of Cairngorm and flows south and then east. Its basin and that of its tributary rivers forms the district of Mar which is the upper part of Aberdeenshire. The name of the river is attested as early as the second century AD in the work of the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy, as Δηοῦα ('Deva'), which it has been suggested means 'Goddess'. Several other rivers of the same name are found in Great Britain, all of the same origin. (Read more)