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Capital of Scotland, in Lothian region. The city grew steadily when Malcolm III made Edinburgh Castle his residence (11th century), and became the capital of Scotland in the early 15th century. It flourished as a cultural centre in the 18th and 19th centuries around figures such as David Hume, Adam Smith and Sir Walter Scott. The new, devolved Scottish Parliament is in the city. Industries: brewing, tourism, chemicals, printing and publishing. Pop. (2001) 449,020.


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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Capital and administrative centre of Scotland and Edinburgh City unitary authority, near the southern shores of the Firth of Forth, 67 km/42 mi east of Glasgow; population (2001) 452,200. Since devolution in 1998, Edinburgh has been the seat of the Scottish Parliament . The city is a cultural centre and hosts the annual Edinburgh Festival (1947), an international arts festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival . The city was made a World Heritage City in 1995. Industries include brewing, whisky distilling, electronics, printing and publishing, and banking and finance. History There is evidence of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements, and in Roman times the site was occupied by Celts. In 617 the site was captured by Edwin, King of Northumbria, and the city took its name from the fortress of Din Eidin that he built there. King Malcolm Canmore built Edinburgh Castle in the 11th century, his son David I built Holyrood Abbey (1128), and the town grew between the two sites. Robert the Bruce…
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From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
Originally DUNEDIN , ‘fort at Eidyn’, Gaelic dùn ‘fort’ ( see DOWN, -DON ) + an element of obscure origin, believed to be OCelt eiddyn ‘rock face’; the first record of the name in its present form, from the 1 2th century, simply replaces Gaelic dùn with English burh ( see BURY ) without changing the…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
ĕd'ĭnbӘrӘ, city (1991 pop. 433,200) and council area, royal burgh, capital of Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. Leith , part of the city since 1920, is Edinburgh's port. The city is famous in Scottish legend and literature as Dunedin or “Auld Reekie.” It is divided into two sections. The Old Town, on…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
City and council area (pop., 2001: 448,624), capital of Scotland. The city and most of the council area, including the busy port of Leith on the Firth of Forth, lie within the historic county of Midlothian. Located in southeastern Scotland, the original burgh, now known as the Old Town, arose in the…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Capital and administrative centre of Scotland and Edinburgh City unitary authority, near the southern shores of the Firth of Forth, 67 km/42 mi east of Glasgow; population (2001) 452,200. Since devolution in 1998, Edinburgh has been the seat of the Scottish Parliament . The city is a cultural centre…
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From Collins Little Books: Scottish History: From Bannockburn to Holyrood
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It was long thought that Scotland’s capital was named after Edwin, a Northumbrian king who ruled in the 7th century. However, people have been living on the volcanic rock that today is the site of Edinburgh Castle from at least the 1st century, and the name ‘Edinburgh’ is now believed to derive from…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
the capital of Scotland, is an ancient settlement, archaeological evidence pushing its history back over 4,000 years. A fine defensive site, the growth of the city stretched from the castle along glaciated ridges in medieval times to Canongate and the abbey of Holyrood and southwards by Cowgate to…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The name of Scotland's capital is traditionally interpreted as ‘Edwin's burgh’, supposedly because the fort here was built by Edwin, king of Northumbria (616–632). But the name was recorded before his time, in about  ad  600, as Eidyn, so some other origin must be sought. This is probably in a…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
or Edinburghshire. Town, Johnson, Bartholomew, and Shelby cos., cen. Indiana, 30 mi. (48 km.) SSE of Indianapolis; pop. (2000c) 4505. or Edinburghshire. See midlothian 2. City and burgh, ✽ of Scotland and formerly county seat of Lothian region, SE Scotland, on S shore of Firth of Forth; pop. (2001c) …
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From Environmental History and Global Change: A Dictionary of Environmental History
The medieval city had a distinctive location on a sloping tail of rock and glacial drift running E from the volcanic plug on which a castle was built in early historic or perhaps prehistoric times. Edinburgh is unusual as a city in not being located on a major river or on the coast though the port…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
stands on Castle Rock overlooking the city of Edinburgh and is approached across the Esplanade, the site of the annual military tattoo and other ceremonies. Edinburgh castle has been sacked and rebuilt several times, one of its oldest surviving parts being the tiny St Margaret's chapel dating from…
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