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edinburgh

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Edinburgh (; ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 local government council areas . Located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth 's southern shore, it is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom ...

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older than King Edwin of Northumbria (who often is credited as the source of the name); originally Din Eidyn , Celtic, perhaps literally "fort on a slope." Later the first element was trimmed off and Old English burh "fort" added in its place." Dunedin ...

Usage examples of edinburgh.

Flora Abernethy lived in a basement flat on a rundown street near the center of Edinburgh.

In a sermon on cruelty to animals, preached at Edinburgh, March 5, 1826, by the Rev.

The Esculapian Club of Edinburgh have, since the death of Burns, added some iron-work, with an inscription in honour of the Ayrshire poet to the original headstone.

I sent to Edinburgh, a few days after I had the happiness of meeting you in Ayrshire, but you were gone for the Continent.

Chap Men, or Running, Flying, and other mercurial stationers, peripatetic booksellers, pedlers, packmen, and again chepmen, these visited the villages and small towns from the large printers of the supply towns, as London, Banbury, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc.

It was a pity to die, but he was a soldier, and no one had yet devised a way a man could live for ever, not even those clever bastards in Edinburgh.

Born in the Lawnmarket area of Edinburgh in 1711, the son of a Berwickshire laird, he developed a passion for literature and philosophy at college.

For some time he acted as clerk in connexion with a bleachfield at Roslin, and subsequently held a situation in the Commercial Bank in Edinburgh.

During this commotion among the Cameronians, the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow were filled with tumults.

You heard her say that the jewels were in her box at Christiania, and that she never opened the box until this evening here in Edinburgh?

This wall of Antoninus, at a small distance beyond the modern cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, was fixed as the limit of the Roman province.

Earl of Montrose, Gerek Gunn fled the city of Edinburgh, his black stallion pounding beneath him and his deerhound, a great-great grandson of Dubh, running at his side.

On April 18, 1881, Keith, late of Edinburgh, now of London, successfully removed an edematous myoma, together with the uterus, which was 42 pounds in weight.

The next few were from Eindhoven, three from Edinburgh, two from Aberdeen, then a British Airways flight from New York.

The two attended an esbat, years past, in the shadows cast by Edinburgh Castle.