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Shires of Scotland. The Shires of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachdan na h-Alba; Scots: Scots coonties), [a] or Counties of Scotland, were historic subdivisions of Scotland. The shires were originally established in the Middle Ages for judicial purposes, being territories over which a sheriff had jurisdiction.
The term "Lowlands" is sometimes used to refer specifically to the "Central Lowlands", an area also known as the "Midland Valley". This area mainly encompasses the basins of the Rivers Forth and Clyde, and houses approximately 80 percent of Scotland's population (3.5 million in the Central Belt). Historically, the Midland Valley has been ...
Scotland in the early modern period refers, for the purposes of this article, to Scotland between the death of James IV in 1513 and the end of the Jacobite risings in the mid-eighteenth century. It roughly corresponds to the early modern period in Europe , beginning with the Renaissance and Reformation and ending with the start of the ...
Irvine's harbour was one of the most important ports in Scotland in the 16th century. Across from the main harbour at Fullarton on the River Irvine there was also terminal for the ICI-Nobel Explosives plant on the River Garnock. Much of the harbour went into decline in the 19th century when Glasgow, Greenock and Port Glasgow achieved higher ...
17th-century bishops in Scotland (1 C, 1 P) 1600s in Scotland (13 C, 6 P) 1610s in Scotland (9 C, 2 P) 1620s in Scotland (13 C, 1 P) 1630s in Scotland (11 C, 3 P) 1640s in Scotland (13 C, 1 P) 1650s in Scotland (9 C, 30 P) 1660s in Scotland (12 C, 2 P) 1670s in Scotland (11 C, 2 P)
Demographic history of Scotland. A seventeenth-century map of Scotland based on Ptolemy 's Geographia: the "towns" were probably hillforts. The demographic history of Scotland includes all aspects of population history in what is now Scotland. The earliest surviving archaeological evidence of human settlement is of Mesolithic hunter-gatherer ...
Scottish Marches. Scottish Marches was the term used for the Anglo-Scottish border during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern era, characterised by violence and cross-border raids. The Scottish Marches era came to an end during the first decade of the 17th century following the union of the crowns of England and Scotland.
Coordinates: 56°41.8485′N 2°49.5735′W. The 19th-century Finavon Castle. Finavon Castle lies on the River South Esk, about a quarter of a mile south of Milton of Finavon village and five miles to the north-east of Forfar in Angus, Scotland. The name is applied both to a ruined 17th-century castle (contemporarily referred to as Finhaven ...