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The Shires of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachdan na h-Alba; Scots: Scots coonties), [a] or Counties of Scotland, were historic subdivisions of Scotland originally established in the Middle Ages for judicial purposes (being the territory over which a sheriff had jurisdiction). From the 17th century, after the Union of Scotland and England ...
List of Scottish clans. The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans, mottoes, and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms ...
For most administrative purposes, the base level of sub-division in Scotland is now that of communities, which may elect community councils. The main role of these bodies is to channel and reflect local opinion to other bodies; they otherwise have very limited powers. There are around 1,200 communities in Scotland.
Another famous Scottish area that came to exert great influence in Ontario was the Perth Settlement, another region of Scottish and military origin. Unemployment and suffering following the end of the Napoleonic Wars caused the British government to reverse its former policies and actively encourage emigration.
Glengarry County, an area covering 288,688 acres (1,168 km 2), is a county in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is historically known for its settlement of Scottish Highlanders. Glengarry County consists of the townships of North Glengarry and South Glengarry.
Map of Scotland, c. 580–600. Pictish regions are marked in yellow. Cumbrian regions in white. Gaelic regions in green. Anciently, the territory now referred to as Scotland belonged to a mixture of Brythonic groups (Picts and Cumbrians) and Angles. The Picts were based north of the Forth–Clyde line, traditionally in seven kingdoms: Cat (the ...
A sheriffdom is a judicial district of Scotland. Originally identical to the Shires of Scotland, from the eighteenth century many counties were grouped to form "sheriffdoms". [1] By 1975 there were 12 sheriffdoms, with only Lanarkshire not grouped with another county. Following the abolition of the counties and formation of new local government ...
Shires in Australia. "Shire" is the most common word in Australia for rural local government areas (LGAs). New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia, use the term "shire" for this unit; the territories of the Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are also shires.