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Scotland during the Roman Empire refers to the protohistorical period during which the Roman Empire interacted within the area of modern Scotland. Despite sporadic attempts at conquest and government between the first and fourth centuries AD, most of modern Scotland, inhabited by the Caledonians and the Maeatae, was not incorporated into the Roman Empire with Roman control over the area fluctuating. In theMons Graupius" which became the namesake of the Grampian Mountains but whose identity has been questioned by modern scholarship. In 2023 a lost Roman road built by Julius Agricola was rediscovered in Drip close to Stirling: it has been described as "the most important road in Scottish history." (Full article...) Read more ... ()
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The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, thereby ending the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Charles landed in Scotland in July 1745, seeking to restore his father James Francis Edward Stuart to the British throne. He quickly won control of large parts of Scotland, and an invasion of England reached as far as south as Derby before being forced to turn back. However, by April 1746, the Jacobites were short of supplies, facing a superior and better equipped opponent.
Charles and his senior officers decided their only option was to stand and fight. When the two armies met at Culloden, the battle lasted less than an hour, with the Jacobites suffering a bloody defeat. This ended both the 1745 rising, and Jacobitism as a significant element in British politics. (Full article...) Read more ... ( ) -
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Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in Scotland. The castle sits atop an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, has made it an important fortification in the region from the earliest times.
Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A few structures remain from the fourteenth century, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century.
Before the union with England, Stirling Castle was also one of the most used of the many Scottish royal residences, very much a palace as well as a fortress. Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1542, and others were born or died there.
There have been at least eightScheduled Ancient Monument, and is now a tourist attraction managed by Historic Environment Scotland. (Full article...) Read more ... () -
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Balmoral Castle (/bælˈmɒrəl/) is a large estate house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and a residence of the British royal family. It is near the village of Crathie, 9 miles (14 km) west of Ballater and 50 miles (80 km) west of Aberdeen.
The estate and its original castle were bought from the
Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. Soon afterwards the house was found to be too small and the current Balmoral Castle was commissioned. The architect was William Smith of Aberdeen, and his designs were amended by Prince Albert. Balmoral remains the private property of the monarch and is not part of the Crown Estate. It was the summer residence of Queen Elizabeth II, who died thereon 8 September 2022.The castle is an example of
category A listedbuilding. The new castle was completed in 1856 and the old castle demolished shortly thereafter. The Balmoral Estate has been added to by successive members of the royal family, and now covers an area of approximately 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares). It is a working estate, including grouse moors, forestry and farmland, as well as managed herds of deer, Highland cattle, sheep and ponies. (Full article...) Read more ... ( ) -
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" ... Burns of all poets is the most a Man ... "
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" ... No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men ... "
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" ... A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures ... "
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" ... Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous ... "
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
" ... Scottish separation is part of England's imperial disintegration ... "
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" ... Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether ... "
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" ... A scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath and everything else he can lay his hands on ... "
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" ... Doctors, like minicab drivers, are the other idiots to whom we trust our lives ... "
— James Kennaway
" ... When shall I see Scotland again? Never shall I forget the happy days I passed there amidst odious smells, barbarous sounds, bad suppers, excellent hearts and the most enlightened and cultivated understandings ... "
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" ... We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters ... "
— Alexander McCall Smith
" ... A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless ... "
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" ... Authors and captured criminals are the only people free from routine ... "
— Eric Linklater
" ... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human ... "
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" ... History is written from then to now but understood back to front ... "
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" ... Growing old is great. It’s like getting drunk. Everyone around you gets better-looking ... "
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— Tommy Docherty
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" ... Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable ... "
— William McIlvanney
" ... Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie-leekie, high cheek-bones or rowanberry jam ... "
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" ... The great and good do not die even in this world. Enbalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad ... "
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— Lord Monboddo
" ... I tell you truly, liberty is the best of things; never live under the halter of slavery ... "
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" ... I think Calvinism has done more damage to Scotland than drugs ever did ... "
— Ronald David Laing
" ... A sense of proportion is anathema to the Glasgow drinker. When he goes at the bevvy it is a fight to the death ... "
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— Robert Burns
" ... In all ages of the world, priests have been the enemies of liberty ... "
— David Hume
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TheRoyal Burgh of Haddington is a town in East Lothian. It is the main administrative, cultural and geographical centre for East Lothian, which was known officially as Haddingtonshire before 1921. It lies approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of Edinburgh.
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Scottish National Gallery, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. The building, which was designed by William Henry Playfair, first opened to the public in 1859.The
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Port Appin, Argyll.
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Calton Hill (archaically spelt Caltoun Hill,) is a hill in central Edinburgh, just to the east of the New Town. It is the headquarters of the Scottish Government, which is based at St Andrew's House, on the steep southern slope of the hill; with the Scottish Parliament Building lying near the foot of the hill.
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Fort William in Lochaber, Highland. It is enclosed by mountains in the north east and surrounded by bog and rough pasture in the south west, from which end the 4 km River Shiel drains to the sea in Loch Moidart near Castle Tioram.
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Theindependentone.
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William Bruce. It was then hugely extended from 1721 by William Adamuntil his death in 1748 being one of his most notable projects. The parklands in which it lies were laid out in 1725, also by William Adam.
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TheScottish Gaelic: Abhainn Thuaidh) is 97 miles (156 km) long and flows primarily through the Borders. It rises on Tweedsmuir at Tweed's Well near where the Clyde, draining northwest, and the Annandraining south also rise.
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geography of Scotland is highly varied, from rural lowlands to barren uplands, and from large cities to uninhabited islands.. Aside from the mainland, Scotland is surrounded by 790 islands encompassing the major archipelagoes of the Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands and the Outer Hebrides.The
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sea loch on the west coast of Argyll and Bute. Although there is no evidence for grapes growing there, it was more metaphorical, such as meaning that the River, Abhainn Fìne, was a well-respected river.
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sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. Loch Leven extends 8¾ miles (14 km), varying in width between 220 yards (200 m) and just over a mile (1.8 km). It opens onto Camus a'Chois at North Ballachulish, part of Loch Linnheat its western end.
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Inverpolly National Nature Reserve. The mountainforms a steep-sided ridge some 2 km in length. The highest point, known as Caisteal Liath (meaning "the Grey Castle"), lies at the northwest end of this ridge.
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TheCrinan at its westerly end. It provides a navigable route between the Clyde and the Inner Hebrides, without the need for a long diversion around the Kintyre peninsula, and in particular the exposed Mull of Kintyre.
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Glenfinnan Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the West Highland Line in Glenfinnan, Lochaber, Highland. It was built between 1897 and 1901. Located at the top of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands, the viaduct overlooks the Glenfinnan Monument and the waters of Loch Shiel.
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Therailway bridge over the Firth of Forth. It was opened on 4 March 1890, and spans a total length of 2,528.7 metres (8,296 ft). It is often called the Forth Rail Bridge or Forth Railway Bridge to distinguish it from the Forth Road Bridge.
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Aberdour Castle is located in the village of Easter Aberdour, Fife. Parts of the castle date from around 1200, making Aberdour one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland, along with Castle Sween in Argyll, which was built at around the same time.
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Scottish Gaelic: Diùirnis) is a huge but remote parish in the northwestern Highlands, encompassing all the land between the Moine to the East (separating it from Tongue parish) and the Gualin to the West (separating it from Eddrachilis).
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great mountain passes in the Alps, with very tight hairpin bends that switch back and forth up the hillside.
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fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles (3 km) south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th–16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been an early fortress of the Dark Ages.
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St Margaret's Chapel, at Edinburgh Castle, is the oldest surviving building in Edinburgh. An example of Romanesque architecture, it is a Category A listed building. Legend had it that St. Margaret worshipped in this small chapel, but recent research indicates that it was built at the beginning of the 12th century by her fourth son who became King David I in 1124.
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