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Sutherland, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 1129
Housing Units (2000): 465
Land area (2000): 0.938618 sq. miles (2.431009 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.938618 sq. miles (2.431009 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47920
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.158608 N, 101.125655 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 69165
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Sutherland, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 707
Housing Units (2000): 348
Land area (2000): 0.872636 sq. miles (2.260117 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.872636 sq. miles (2.260117 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76485
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.972364 N, 95.496923 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51058
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Sutherland

Sutherland is a county in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness to the east, Ross-shire to the south and the Atlantic to the north and west.

In Gaelic the area is referred to according to its traditional areas: Dùthaich MhicAoidh (or Dùthaich 'IcAoidh) in the northeast, Asainte ( Assynt) in the west, and Cataibh in the east. Cataibh is also sometimes used to refer to the area as a whole.

The name Sutherland dates from the era of Norwegian Viking rule and settlement over much of the Highlands and Islands, under the rule of the jarl of Orkney. Although it contains some of the northernmost land in the island of Great Britain, it was called Suðrland ("southern land") from the standpoint of Orkney and Caithness.

The northwest corner of Sutherland, traditionally known as the Province of Strathnaver, was not incorporated into Sutherland until 1601. This was the home of the powerful and warlike Clan Mackay, and as such was named in Gaelic, Dùthaich 'Ic Aoidh, the Homeland of Mackay. Even today this part of Sutherland is known as Mackay Country, and, unlike other areas of Scotland where the names traditionally associated with the area have become diluted, there is still a preponderance of Mackays in the Dùthaich.

Like its southern neighbour Ross-shire, Sutherland has some of the most dramatic scenery in the whole of Europe, especially on its western fringe where the mountains meet the sea. These include high sea cliffs, and very old mountains composed of Precambrian and Cambrian rocks.

Much of the population is based in coastal towns, such as Helmsdale and Lochinver, which until very recently made much of their living from the rich fishing of the waters around the British and Irish Isles.

Much of Sutherland is poor relative to the rest of Scotland, with few job opportunities beyond government funded employment, agriculture and seasonal tourism.

Further education is provided by North Highland College, part of the University of the Highland and Islands. The Ross House Campus in Dornoch was the first establishment in the UK to provide a degree in Golf Management. The Burghfield House Campus, also in Dornoch, is a hotel school.

Sutherland (disambiguation)

Sutherland is an area in Highland, Scotland

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Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency)

Sutherland was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It represented essentially the traditional county of Sutherland, electing one Member of Parliament (MP). The county town of Dornoch, however, was represented as a component of the Tain Burghs constituency, from 1708 to 1832, and of the Wick Burghs constituency, from 1832 to 1918.

In 1918 the Sutherland constituency and Dornoch were merged into the then new constituency of Caithness and Sutherland. In 1997 Caithness and Sutherland was merged into Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

Sutherland (surname)

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Sutherland (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Sutherland was a constituency that returned shire commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of the Estates.

Sutherland became a sheriffdom after the resignation of the heritable jurisdiction by the Earl of Sutherland on 28 June 1633.

Usage examples of "sutherland".

The environment, with its surface layer of sphagnum under which lie thick deposits of peat, is so conducive to birdlife that Loch Fleet and the Dornoch Firth account for most of the more than five thousand birds that winter in the county of Sutherland.

The son of a Tweeddale shepherd who had emigrated years before to a cheviot farm in Sutherland, he was in every line and feature the Lowlander, and his speech had still the broad intonation of the Borders.

There were rumors that Sutherland had offered them more than the others under the table, and that made things worse.

Raleigh, North Carolina, have found in their genealogical research that Boog designed all the churches and manses built in Sutherland and Easter Ross between 1760 and 1804.

Sutherland hired him as club professional, greenkeeper, and clubmaker a year later.

The large front room in which we sat had those big windows that houses with a view should have, and the walls were filled with paintings and prints - landscapes, antique political cartoons, a 1654 map of Sutherland, a famous old print of Dornoch, a painting of the Dornoch Bookshop, done by Cyril Reed in 1999, which was given to Richard when he sold the shop.

They pushed their outposts also as far as Sutherland and Beaufort West in the south.

The kings shortly announced that between the earls and the most powerful clansMacKay, Sutherland, and MacKensie to the north, Cameron, Campbell, Chattan, Gordon, and Drummond to the souththe brutalized Highlands now had been scoured virtually clean of the bloodthirsty heretics who called themselves Balderites.

Hornblower's imagination was hard at work trying to calculate, on quite insufficient data, the rate of drift he could expect and the possible distance the Sutherland would be able to tow the dismasted three-decker in the time granted.

The privateers had come up into the wind again, and were working to windward directly astern of the Sutherland.

In all likelihood, the Earl's Cross - a stone pillar in that open field - is a boundary marker, but it has the coat of arms of the Earls of Sutherland on one side and that of the town of Dornoch on the other side.

Rebus wondered which luxury hotel would be the base for their drink, and was stunned, perhaps even disappointed, when Byars named the Sutherland Bar, one of Rebus's own watering holes.

He was at the rear of the cave, and Sutherland was astounded to see him kneeling next to his golf ball in a shallow pit.

The Sutherland came round, heeling over with the wind abeam and a trifle more canvas than was safe.

From the top of Ben Bhraggie, at the base of the Mannie, the infamous monument to the first Duke of Sutherland, you can see the villages of Brora, Golspie, and Dornoch, where some families forced from the hills of the Highlands were sent to live.