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• Aberdeenshire
  ...and the pearl mussel occurs in the Ythan and Don. A valuable pearl in the Scottish crown is said to be from the Ythan. [[Loch Muick]], the largest of the few ...Flushing (''Vlissingen'') in the Netherlands, becoming the emporium of the Scottish traders, while education was fostered by the foundation of King's College,
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• Argyll
  ...[[Lochgilphead]] later claimed to be the county town, as the seat of local government for the county from the nineteenth century. Neither town was the largest se ...ent Celtic princedom; but in that year it was reduced by Alexander II, the Scottish king, to a shire and an integral part of Scotland. The MacDougals were domi
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• Buteshire
  ...nh.org.uk/pubs/detail.asp?id=1291 "Beaches of Cowal, Bute & Arran"] (1975) Scottish Natural Heritage. (Originally published by the Countryside Commission for S ...ottish.antiquities.ukonline.co.uk/ "Sailing through Scottish Antiquities"] scottish.antiquities.ukonline.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2011.</ref><ref>[http://ww
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• County Durham
  The machinery of government itself was slow to extend itself to northern England, and these lands were ...or the king's service, but in 1644 the palatinate was again overrun by the Scottish army, and after the Battle of Marston Moor fell entirely into the hands of
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• Fermanagh
  ...e time of the Plantation of Ulster that it was finally brought under civil government. ...nd native Irish. The baronies of Knockinny and Maghenaboy were allotted to Scottish undertakers, those of Clankelly, Magherastephana and Lurg to English undert
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• Kincardineshire
  ...g "The Stewartry". An alternative story is that it comes from "Mernia", a Scottish lord to whom the land was granted, and whose brother, Angus, had obtained t In 1600, Parliament caused the government of Kincardineshire to be conducted at the [[Stonehaven Tolbooth]].
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• Northumberland
  ...se, as the Marcher Lords, they were entrusted with protecting England from Scottish invasion. Northumberland has a history of revolt and rebellion against the government, the last of which was the Rising of the North in Tudor times. These revolt
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• Renfrewshire
  ...nd about 1136<ref>Professor Geoffrey W S Barrow, ''The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980, ISBN 0-19-822473-7 page 64-5</ref ...a knight and military leader during in the period surrounding the Wars of Scottish Independence, was born in 1272 at [[Elderslie]] in the county.<ref>^ Watson
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• Sutherland
  After the conquest of the district by the Scottish kings, Sutherland was conferred on Hugh Freskin (a descendant of Freskin of ...l a poor relation to the rest of Britain with few job opportunities beyond government funded employment. Further education is provided by North Highland College
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• Terminology of the British Isles
  ...ands - see {{cite book| author=Haswell-Smith, Hamish| year=2004| title=The Scottish Islands| location=Edinburgh| publisher=Canongate| isbn=1-84195-454-3}} plus ...bsp;— quote from [http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page823.asp British Government website]</ref> or sometimes the island of Great Britain.
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• Fraserburgh
  A grant from the Scottish Parliament in 1595 allowed the first college building to be erected by Alex ...what they could afford but only if additional funding was provided by the Government and Royal Burghs.
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• Peterhead
  ...ive under the Aberdeenshire Towns Partnership brings together the Council, Scottish Enterprise Grampian, Communities Scotland, commerce and community represent *Scottish Prison Service (HM Peterhead Prison), Prison Services
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• Turriff
  ...cally as '''Turra''' in the Doric dialect of Scots. The name appears to be Scottish Gaelic in origin, from "''torr''" meaning a mound or round hill, or "''tur' ...fusal to pay National Insurance when this was introduced by Lloyd George's government.
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• Dundee
  == Local government == ...r than any senior football club pair in the UK.<ref>{{ cite web | author = Scottish Football Archive | title = Tannadice Park | url = http://scottishfootballar
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• Arbroath
  * [[Scottish Episcopal Church]]: St Mary the Virgin Church (Springfield Terrace) | publisher=HM Government
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• Belfast
  ...Sir Arthur Chichester. It was initially settled by Protestant English and Scottish migrants at the time of the Plantation of Ulster, for although Belfast and ...capital of Northern Ireland since its establishment in 1921 following the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Since its emergence as a major city, it had been the s
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• Ballymena
  ...Estate. In time the estate passed into the possession of William Adair, a Scottish laird from Kinhilt and was temporarily renamed "Kinhilstown" after the Adai ...Government Nuclear Bunker, built in the late 80's with room for nearly 350 Government officials, it would have helped to keep the country operating after a nucle
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• Gretna
  ...e to the community. As a result, many elopers fled England, and the first Scottish village they reached was often Gretna. With the construction of a new high ...to become conspicuous, that the government enterprise was sold off by the government.
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• Glasgow
  ...gow]] in the 15th century, which subsequently became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century. From the 18th century the city also grew ...y the Lord Lyon King of Arms on 25 October 1866.<ref>Urquhart, RM (1973) ''Scottish Burgh and County Heraldry''. London. Heraldry Today. ISBN 978-0900455247.<
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• Blairgowrie
  ..., a historic site where Donald Cargill, a minister and covenanter, escaped Government troops by jumping over the rocky gorge of the River Ericht. ...mer when Eastern European students flock in to harvest the fruit. Like the Scottish pickers of old they are housed in camps on the farms but these now tend to
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