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Country of the UK
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scotland
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scotland (; Scots : ; ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain . It shares a border with England to the south, and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to ...
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 891 Housing Units (2000): 469 Land area (2000): 0.842707 sq. miles (2.182602 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.842707 sq. miles (2.182602 sq. km) FIPS code: 57940 Located within: South ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
named for the Scots , who settled there from Ireland 5c.-6c.; their name is of unknown origin (see Scot ). Latin Scotia began to appear 9c. as the name for the region, replacing older Caledonia , also named for the inhabitants at the time, whose name likewise ...
Usage examples of scotland.
Thus we will patent the Cadbury clown fish, the British Petroleum stag coral, the Marks and Spencer moray eel, the Royal Bank of Scotland angelfish, and gliding silently overhead, the British Airways manta ray.
But they are not a part of what is unofficially called the Anglo French Empire, which technically includes only France, England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Palazzo Muti, Roman residence of the self-styled King James III of England and VIII of Scotland, was a handsomely columned and pedimented gold-stuccoed building at the northern end of the Piazza dei Santi Apostoli, close to the heart of the old city.
ZULU 55 181 North, 10 561 East Control Room USS Archerfish Store Baelt Channel Between Fyn and Sjaelland Islands Denmark Soon after leaving the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland, the Archerfish entered the deeper waters of the Atlantic.
Malvinas would be as if we claimed their North Sea oil because a few Argentinian families had settled on the east coast of Scotland.
William Cobbett, who knew him, to have been a Thomas Kennedy, a native of Ayrshire, agent to a mercantile house in the west of Scotland.
Scotland for Christmas was postponed and instead I was sent up to London to get an expert bacteriologist on the disease and arrange to start a laboratory.
Gordon Bennett was born at New Mill, Keith, in Banffshire, on the northeastern coast of Scotland, about the year 1800.
Cairngorm or Cairngorum, one of the peaks of the Grampian Mountains in Banffshire, Scotland.
British, saving as they did the front-line boats a long, dangerous outward trip from Kiel round the north of Scotland to the actual area of operations, and the same long risky return from the Atlantic to home continually exposed to the British aircraft above them which kept constant patrols from their island bases.
If he lost the election, he would retire to his estates in Scotland, his lovely Adam house in its elegant park, the rare books in his library and his trees, those forests about whose fortunes Burgo Smyth had been rather too often kept informed.
Grandsire was a Cameronian in Scotland in the Killing Times and had long gone where good Scots go when me father come across the sea to Pennsylvania.
Scotland, the ancient Culdee church founded by Columba and his followers, far removed from direct papal influence, was still keeping the seventh-day Sabbath in the eleventh century.
If she were not merely a Queen of Scotland but also a Dauphine of France they would think twice about flouting her in favour of the bastard.
England had not been taken by the bastard Elizabeth, it would surely have fallen to Mary, Queen of Scotland, now Dauphine of France.