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Lothian (; ; ) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills. The principal settlement is the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, while other significant towns include Livingston, Linlithgow, Queensferry, Dalkeith, Musselburgh, North Berwick, Dunbar, and Haddington.
Historically, the term Lothian referred to a province encompassing most of what is now southeastern Scotland. In the 7th century it came under the control of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia, the northern part of the later kingdom of Northumbria, but the Angles' grip on Lothian was quickly weakened following the Battle of Nechtansmere in which they were defeated by the Picts. Lothian was annexed to the Kingdom of Scotland around the 10th century.
Subsequent Scottish history saw the region subdivided into three shires— Mid, East, and West Lothian—leading to the popular term "the Lothians".
Lothian is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.
The Lothian region was created as a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries and largely replaced the Lothians region.
Lothian is a traditional region in Scotland.
Lothian may also refer to:
Usage examples of "lothian".
She had given up the farm to James Brodie, who had married her cousin Jane, the eldest of the two children she had mothered, and he had to come to the farm once or twice a week, having a still larger farm of his own in East Lothian, and a stock farm in Berwickshire also to look after.
Linnaeus, which formerly frequented the champaign parts of Great Britain from East Lothian to Dorsetshire, but of which the native race is now extirpated.
Lord Avon lost, and Sir Lothian lost, and my uncle lost, and Captain Barrington won until he could win no more.
Lord Avon had no children, and Sir Lothian Hume - the same who was at the card-party - is his nephew and heir.
We had played for two days, the four of us: Lord Avon, his brother Captain Barrington, Sir Lothian Hume, and myself.
The big barouche came lumbering over the sward in our direction until Sir Lothian Hume caught sight of us, when he shouted to his postillions to pull up.
At which hour I was aware of a long, lean, bony-like Lothian man of a very swarthy countenance, that came towards us among the bents on a farm horse.
In fact, North and South Esk bears some resemblance to the MidLothian parliamentary constituency - prior to 1983's Boundary Commission changes - but also bites a small southernmost chunk out of the present Edinburgh Pentlands constituency and a westerly chunk out of East Lothian constituency.
Most of lowland Britain was like this now-big patches even in the south and a continuous mass of it from the frontier of settlement here to East Lothian in Scotland-save for preChange forest and moor.
We drank more champagne and unpacked the picnic, which was the glorious gift of arguably the best restaurant in Scotland, La Potiniere at Gullane in East Lothian.
He imagined himself parking the car on Lothian Road, halfway between the two addresses, and kipping there.
Yet twice, in the last days of falling leaves, when the red larch trees stood bare in the icy wind that blew over Lothian, she dreamed of her foster-son Gwydion.
Archibald Simson, minister there, and that confession coming to the ears of Robert, Earl of Lothian, my lord’.
The British Olympic team for the Male Self-Importance event had invaded Lothian & Borders HQ, a rampant infestation of facial hair and Y chromosomes.