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4 days ago · Edinburgh Castle has played a prominent role in Scottish history, and has served variously as a royal residence, an arsenal, a treasury, a national archive, a mint, a prison, a military fortress, and the home of the Honours of Scotland – the Scottish regalia.
2 days ago · Edinburgh - Historic, Castle, Architecture: Edinburgh Castle, 443 feet (135 metres) above sea level, dominates the city. Archaeological excavations have shown that the Castle Rock, previously thought to have first been fortified as a stronghold of the Gododdin in the 6th century, originated in the Bronze Age and has been occupied for some 3,000 ...
3 days ago · Anywhere else in the world this castle in Scotland would be a major tourist attraction. Drumlanrig is an absolutely stunning Castle – its pinky-red bricks look amazing in the sunlight. This 17th-century Scottish castle sits on the 120,000 acres Queensberry Estate. There are several trails around Drumlanrig Castle – from 1.5 to 7km.
3 days ago · The last person living on the island moved in the 1970s, and churches, monasteries and even a castle were left in the ghost town. The enigmatic island beckons the curious to explore its haunted shores, where the past and the spectral converge in a realm of haunting beauty and timeless wonder. More like this
2 days ago · In Scotland, the Baronage is the class of barons and baronesses who are the heads of their respective baronies. Also known as prescriptive baronies, they used to be attached to a particular piece of land on which was situated the caput (Latin for "head") or essence
1 day ago · Scotland, most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom, occupying about one-third of the island of Great Britain. The name Scotland derives from the Latin Scotia, land of the Scots, a Celtic people from Ireland who settled on the west coast of Great Britain about the 5th century ce.
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4 days ago · The Kingdom of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Scots: Kinrick o Scotland, Norn: Kongungdum Skotland) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe traditionally said to have been founded in 843.