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• Fraserburgh
  |scots=The Broch ...older, building which now houses the school's Art Department. A new, more modern school was built in the 1950s, and improvements are constantly being made.
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• Inverurie
  ...avid of Huntingdon, Earl of the [[Garioch]], brother of Malcolm IV King of Scots, great-great-grandfather of Robert the Bruce who defeated the Comyns nearby However, the town's earliest known charter dates from 1558, with its modern development taking place after the building of the [[Aberdeenshire Canal]]
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• Peterhead
  |scots=Peterheid ...com/site/11227/catto.html#fieldnotes ''Catto Long Barrow fieldnotes'', The Modern Antiquarian]</ref>
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• Dundee
  The area surrounding the modern city has been continuously occupied since the Middle Stone Age.<ref name="S ...editor-last = Barrow | editor-first = G.W.S. | title = The Kingdom of the Scots | year = 2003 | edition = 2 | publisher = Edinburgh University Press | loca
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• Arbroath
  | scots = Aiberbrothock ...hwick'' and by the seventtenth century ''Arbroth'' and ''Aberbreth''. The modern name, 'Arbroath', became more common in the mid-nineteenth century.
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• Carrickfergus
  ...times following his death (in 1242) and the town largely destroyed by the Scots in 1402.<ref name="CarrickfergusHistory-MediævalTimes" /><ref name="AHisto ===Modern history===
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• Loch Leven, Kinross-shire
  ...hs. The castle was the prison of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] in 1567, though modern day visitors can expect to be permitted to leave. ...with silver, upon which ... were the letters of the words, "Mary, Queen of Scots," found near the ''Mary Knowe'', where she is supposed to have landed after
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• Ayr
  ...rived in Ayr. A black legend tells that the English invited some prominent Scots to a meeting at Ayr at the end of the 13th century, but they then captured ===Modern era===
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• Irvine, Ayrshire
  Part of modern Irvine contains the oldest continually inhabited village in Europe. [[Dregh ...it would later serve as home to no fewer than three kings. John I King of Scots inherited the lordship of Irvine sometime in the mid-13th century. Robert t
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• Largs
  ...up after the [[Norman Conquest]] of England in 1066. The forebears of the modern day Boyles settled at Kelburn around 1140. ...f the Norse fleet bearing the combined armies was beached at Largs and the Scots attacked a small force of Norwegians attempting to salvage the ships. The
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• Banff
  ...ges spoken in the town and in its vicinity tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and English. The modern-day town has a golf course (Duff House Royal), beaches, and was home to the
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• Eyemouth
  ...A later William Craw, who had a passion for mathematics, built the first 'modern' harbour at Eyemouth and, in 1715, the elliptical walled garden, the latter ==Modern town life==
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• Kirkcaldy
  ...man famous men, greatest of whom was Adam Smith (1723–90) "the father of modern economics". ...s the end of the 11th century, King Malcolm III bought the land around the modern town to grant as a gift to the monks of Dunfermline Abbey to serve as an en
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• Glasgow
  .... The settlement probably had an earlier Cumbric name, '''Cathures'''; the modern name appears for the first time in the Gaelic period (1116), as ''Glasgu''. ===The modern period===
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• Southwell
  ===Modern period=== ...riest's orders; and on 4 April 1194, King Richard I along with the King of Scots, William I, was in Southwell, having spent Palm Sunday in nearby Clipstone.
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• Jedburgh
  | scots= Jeddart, Jethart ...dburgh Abbey]]. Other notable buildings in the town include Mary, Queen of Scots' House and Jedburgh Castle Gaol, now a museum.
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• Linlithgow
  ...ns of Linlithgow Palace, the birthplace of King James V and Mary, Queen of Scots, and probably Scotland's finest surviving late mediæval secular building. ...railway line, and today the limited crossings of both cause problems with modern traffic as there are only three places where each can be crossed in the tow
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• Inverness
  ...act>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7195730.stm Scots' impact on comics examined], BBC, January 18, 2008</ref> ...the progress undertaken to suppress Huntly's insurrection, Mary, Queen of Scots, was denied admittance into Inverness Castle by the governor, who belonged
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• Edinburgh
  ...ul collection of mediaeval and Georgian architecture, stone tenements, and modern works, It is perhaps Britain's most beautiful city, and of the most pictur ...nicle called ''oppidum Eden'')<ref name="Watson, 1926 p.340"/> fell to the Scots. It is uncertain whether Edinburgh remained under Indulf's rule permanenly
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• Church of Scotland
  ...community in Scotland – and exists to serve not only its members but all Scots (the majority of funerals in Scotland are taken by its ministers). It also ...vision of universal education in Scotland (the first such provision in the modern world), largely due to its desire that all people should be able to read th
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