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Perth, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Perth, former county, Scotland: see Perthshire. ...

Inverness, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Inverness, former county, Scotland: see Inverness-shire. ...

Kinross, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Kinross, former county, Scotland: see Kinross-shire. ...

Dumfries, town, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Dumfries dəmfrēsˈ [key], town, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, on the Nith River. The ...

William, king of Scotland

(Encyclopedia)William, king of Scotland: see William the Lion. ...

(Encyclopedia)Alexander I, 1078?–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III and St. Margaret of Scotland. He succeeded his brother Edgar, who had divided the kingdom so that Alexander ruled only N of ...

Glasgow, city, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Glasgow glăsˈgō, –kō, glăzˈgō [key], city and council area, S central Scotla...

Inverness, town, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Inverness ĭnˌvərnĕsˈ [key], town, Highland, N Scotland, on the Moray Firth at the mouth of the ...

Stirling, town, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Stirling, town (1991 pop. 38,638), Stirling council area, central Scotland, on the Forth River. The center of a large farm district, it has livestock markets and light industries making agricultural m...

Alexander III, king of Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Alexander III, 1241–86, king of Scotland (1249–86), son and successor of Alexander II. He married a daughter of Henry III of England and quarreled with Henry, and later Henry's son Edward I, over ...