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Knapdale

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Knapdale (Cnapadal) forms a rural district of Argyll and Bute in the Scottish Highlands, adjoining Kintyre to the south, and divided from the rest of Argyll to the north by the Crinan Canal. [1]

128 relations: A83 road, Achahoish, Achnamara, Alexander III of Scotland, Amy of Garmoran, Ardrishaig, Ardscotnish, Argyll, Argyll and Bute, Argyll and Bute (Scottish Parliament constituency), Argyll and Bute (UK Parliament constituency), Baronet, Battle of Alnwick (1093), Black-throated loon, Cairnbaan, Campbeltown, Castle Sween, Celtic harp, Central Belt, Clan Campbell, Clan Donald, Clan MacDougall, Clan Sweeney, Clann Ruaidhrí, Craignish, Crinan Canal, Crinan, Argyll and Bute, Dál Riata, Donald III of Scotland, Dubhghall mac Suibhne, Dunadd, Duncan II of Scotland, Edgar, King of Scotland, Edinburgh, Edward IV of England, Eurasian beaver, Forestry Commission, Gabrán mac Domangairt, Gaels, Gallowglass, Godred Crovan, Gulf Stream, Haakon IV of Norway, Hectare, Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746, Iain Coucher, Inveraray, Inverness, Iona, Isle of Arran, ..., Isthmus, John Balliol, John of Islay, Earl of Ross, John of Islay, Lord of the Isles, Jura, Scotland, Keills Chapel, Kilberry, Kilmory Knap Chapel, Kingdom of the Isles, Kintyre, List of rivers of Scotland, Lithgows, Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, Loch, Loch Awe, Loch Fyne, Loch Sween, Lochgilphead, Lord of the Isles, Maerl, Magnus Barefoot, Magnus VI of Norway, Malcolm III of Scotland, Marilyn (geography), Mean low water spring, Ministry of Labour (United Kingdom), Murchadh Mac Suibhne, National Cycle Network, National Cycle Route 78, National Museum of Scotland, National nature reserve (Scotland), National scenic area (Scotland), Network Rail, Norsemen, Norway, Ostrea edulis, Parish, Perthshire, Queen Mary Harp, Quitclaim deed, River Add, River Tay, Robert II of Scotland, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Scotland, Scotland in the Early Middle Ages, Scotland in the Middle Ages, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish Government, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Sheriff court, Sheriffdom, Shipbuilding, Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet, Somerled, Sound of Jura, Special Protection Area, Straits of Moyle, Suibhne mac Duinnshléibhe, Tarbert, Tarbertshire, Taynish National Nature Reserve, Tayvallich, Temperate rainforest, Treaty of Perth, Ulster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom census, 1991, United Kingdom census, 2001, Walter Bailloch, Wars of the Roses, West Loch Tarbert, Argyll, World War II, 12th century, 13th century, 8th century. Expand index (78 more) »

A83 road

The A83 is a major road in the south of Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, running from Tarbet, on the western shore of Loch Lomond, where it splits from the A82, to Campbeltown at the southern end of the Kintyre peninsula.

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Achahoish

Achahoish (Achadh a’ Chòis) is a village on the west coast of Knapdale in the Scottish council area of Argyll and Bute.

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Achnamara

Achnamara (Achadh na Mara) is a village in the Scottish council area of Argyll and Bute.

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Alexander III of Scotland

Alexander III (Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair) (4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286) was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.

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Amy of Garmoran

Amy of Garmoran also known as Amie MacRuari and Euphemia was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman who was the sister of Raghnall mac Ruaidhri, Lord of Garmoran and the spouse of John of Islay.

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Ardrishaig

Ardrishaig (Rubha Àird Driseig) is a lochside village at the southern (eastern) entrance to the Crinan Canal in Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland.

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Ardscotnish

Ardscotnish, also known as Ardskeodnish, is a former location, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland approximating to the present parish of Kilmartin.

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Argyll

Argyll (archaically Argyle, Earra-Ghàidheal in modern Gaelic), sometimes anglicised as Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.

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Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute (Earra-Ghàidheal agus Bòd) is both one of 32 unitary authority council areas and a lieutenancy area in Scotland.

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Argyll and Bute (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Argyll and Bute is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Argyll and Bute (UK Parliament constituency)

Argyll and Bute is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Baronet

A baronet (or; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess (or; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

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Battle of Alnwick (1093)

The Battle of Alnwick is one of two battles fought near the town of Alnwick, in Northumberland, England.

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Black-throated loon

The black-throated loon (Gavia arctica), also known as the Arctic loon and the black-throated diver, is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere, primarily breeding in freshwater lakes in northern Europe and Asia.

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Cairnbaan

Cairnbaan is a village situated on the Crinan Canal, in Argyll and Bute, western Scotland.

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Campbeltown

Campbeltown; (Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or Ceann Locha) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Castle Sween

Castle Sween is located on the eastern shore of Loch Sween, in Knapdale,http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/properties_sites_detail.htm?propertyID.

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Celtic harp

The Celtic harp is a triangular harp traditional to Wales, Brittany, Ireland and Scotland.

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Central Belt

The Central Belt of Scotland is the area of highest population density within Scotland.

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Clan Campbell

Clan Campbell (Na Caimbeulaich) is a Highland Scottish clan.

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Clan Donald

Clan Donald, also known as Clan MacDonald (Clann Dòmhnaill), is a Highland Scottish clan and one of the largest Scottish clans.

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Clan MacDougall

Clan MacDougall is a Highland Scottish clan.

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Clan Sweeney

Clan Sweeney is an Irish clan of Scottish origin.

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Clann Ruaidhrí

Clann Ruaidhrí was a leading mediaeval kindred in the Hebrides and the western seaboard of Scotland.

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Craignish

Craignish (Scottish Gaelic, Creiginis) is a peninsula in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland.

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Crinan Canal

The Crinan Canal between Crinan and Ardrishaig in Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland is operated by Scottish Canals.

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Crinan, Argyll and Bute

Crinan (An Crìonan) is a small village located on the west coast of Scotland in the region known as Knapdale, which is part of Argyll and Bute.

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Dál Riata

Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) was a Gaelic overkingdom that included parts of western Scotland and northeastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel.

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Donald III of Scotland

Donald III (Medieval Gaelic: Domnall mac Donnchada; Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Dhonnchaidh), and nicknamed "Donald the Fair" or "Donald the White" (Medieval Gaelic:"Domnall Bán", anglicised as Donald Bane/Bain or Donalbane/Donalbain), (c. 1032–1099) was King of Scots from 1093–1094 and 1094–1097.

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Dubhghall mac Suibhne

Dubhghall mac Suibhne was a prominent 13th-century noble.

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Dunadd

Dunadd (Scottish Gaelic Dùn Ad, 'fort on the Add') is an Iron Age and later hillfort in Kilmichael Glassary in Argyll and Bute, Scotland and believed to be the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata.

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Duncan II of Scotland

Donnchad mac Máel Coluim (Modern Gaelic: Donnchadh mac Mhaoil Chaluim;Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim is the Mediaeval Gaelic form. anglicised as Duncan II; c. 1060 – 12 November 1094) was king of Scots.

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Edgar, King of Scotland

Edgar or Étgar mac Maíl Choluim (Modern Gaelic: Eagar mac Mhaoil Chaluim), nicknamed Probus, "the Valiant" (c. 1074 – 8 January 1107), was King of Scotland from 1097 to 1107.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edward IV of England

Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was the King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death.

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Eurasian beaver

The Eurasian beaver or European beaver (Castor fiber) is a species of beaver which was once widespread in Eurasia.

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Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for forestry in England and Scotland (on 1 April 2013 Forestry Commission Wales merged with other agencies to become Natural Resources Wales).

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Gabrán mac Domangairt

Gabrán mac Domangairt (Old Welsh: Gawran map DinwarchAnnales Cambriae B Text) or Gabrán the Traitor (Gwran Wradouc) was king of Dál Riata, Ulaid, in the mid-6th century.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil, Na Gàidheil, Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to northwestern Europe.

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Gallowglass

The gallowglasses (also spelt galloglass, gallowglas or galloglas; from gall óglaigh meaning foreign warriors) were a class of elite mercenary warriors who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of Scotland between the mid 13th century and late 16th century.

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Godred Crovan

Godred Crovan (died 1095), known in Gaelic as Gofraid Crobán, Gofraid Meránach, and Gofraid Méránach, was a Norse-Gaelic ruler of the kingdoms of Dublin and the Isles.

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Gulf Stream

The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

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Haakon IV of Norway

Haakon Haakonsson (c. March/April 1204 – 16 December 1263) (Old Norse: Hákon Hákonarson; Norwegian: Håkon Håkonsson), sometimes called Haakon the Old in contrast to his son with the same name, and known in modern regnal lists as Haakon IV, was the King of Norway from 1217 to 1263.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746

Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 (20 Geo. II c. 43) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.

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Iain Coucher

Iain Michael Coucher (born 22 August 1961, St Albans, Hertfordshire) is a British businessman and consultant in the railway industry.

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Inveraray

Inveraray; (or; Inbhir Aora; "mouth of the Aray") is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Inverness

Inverness (from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness", Inerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands.

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Iona

Iona (Ì Chaluim Chille) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.

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Isle of Arran

Arran (Eilean Arainn) or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh largest Scottish island, at.

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Isthmus

An isthmus (or; plural: isthmuses; from neck) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.

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John Balliol

John Balliol (– late 1314), known derisively as Toom Tabard (meaning "empty coat") was King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.

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John of Islay, Earl of Ross

John of Islay (or John MacDonald) (1434–1503) was a late medieval Scottish magnate.

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John of Islay, Lord of the Isles

John of Islay (or John MacDonald) (Eòin Mac Dòmhnuill or Iain mac Aonghais Mac Dhòmhnuill) (died 1386) was the Lord of the Isles (1336–1386) and chief of Clan Donald.

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Jura, Scotland

Jura (Diùra) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, adjacent to and to the north-east of Islay.

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Keills Chapel

Keills Chapel is a small chapel located in the west Highlands, Scotland, near the village of Tayvallich, Knapdale.

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Kilberry

Kilberry (Cill Bheiridh) is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Kilmory Knap Chapel

Kilmory Knap Chapel is a 13th-century Christian chapel, located at the tiny hamlet of Kilmory, in Knapdale, Argyll and Bute, on the west coast of Scotland.

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Kingdom of the Isles

The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD.

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Kintyre

Kintyre (Cinn Tìre) is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the southwest of Argyll and Bute.

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List of rivers of Scotland

This list of rivers in Scotland is organised geographically, taken anti-clockwise, from Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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Lithgows

Lithgows Limited, is a family-owned Scottish company that had a long involvement in shipbuilding, based in Kingston, Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland.

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Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 50) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which was passed on 26 August 1889.

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Loch

Loch is the Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Scots word for a lake or for a sea inlet.

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Loch Awe

Loch Awe (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Obha) is a large body of freshwater in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands.

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Loch Fyne

Loch Fyne (Loch Fìne), meaning Loch of the Vine or Wine, is a sea loch off the Firth of Clyde and forms part of the coast of the Cowal peninsula.

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Loch Sween

Loch Sween is a sea loch located near Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Lochgilphead

Lochgilphead (Ceann Loch Gilb) is a town and former burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, with a population of around 2,300 people.

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Lord of the Isles

The Lord of the Isles (Triath nan Eilean or Rìgh Innse Gall) is a title of Scottish nobility with historical roots that go back beyond the Kingdom of Scotland.

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Maerl

Maerl (also known as rhodolith) is a collective name for non-geniculate coralline red algae with a certain growth habit.

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Magnus Barefoot

Magnus Olafsson (Old Norse: Magnús Óláfsson, Norwegian: Magnus Olavsson; 1073 – 24 August 1103), better known as Magnus Barefoot (Old Norse: Magnús berfœttr, Norwegian: Magnus Berrføtt), was King of Norway (as Magnus III) from 1093 until his death in 1103.

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Magnus VI of Norway

Magnus Haakonsson (Old Norse: Magnús Hákonarson, Norwegian: Magnus Håkonsson; 1 May 1238 – 9 May 1280) was King of Norway (as Magnus VI) from 1263 to 1280 (junior king from 1257).

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Malcolm III of Scotland

Malcolm III (Gaelic: Máel Coluim mac Donnchada; c. 26 March 1031 – 13 November 1093) was King of Scots from 1058 to 1093.

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Marilyn (geography)

A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a prominence of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit.

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Mean low water spring

The average of the levels of each pair of successive low waters during that period of about 24 hours in each semi-lunation (approximately every 14 days), when the range of the tide is greatest (Spring Range).

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Ministry of Labour (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Labour was a British government department established by the New Ministries and Secretaries Act 1916.

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Murchadh Mac Suibhne

Murchadh Mac Suibhne (died 1267) was a prominent 13th-century noble.

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National Cycle Network

The National Cycle Network (NCN) is the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom, which was established to encourage cycling throughout Britain, as well as for the purposes of bicycle touring.

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National Cycle Route 78

National Cycle Route 78 runs from Campbeltown to Inverness.

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National Museum of Scotland

The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Museum (so renamed in 1995), with collections covering science and technology, natural history, and world cultures.

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National nature reserve (Scotland)

The national nature reserves of Scotland are areas of land or water designated under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to contain habitats and species of national importance.

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National scenic area (Scotland)

A national scenic area (NSA) is a conservation designation used in Scotland, and administered by Scottish Natural Heritage.

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Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Norsemen

Norsemen are a group of Germanic people who inhabited Scandinavia and spoke what is now called the Old Norse language between 800 AD and c. 1300 AD.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Ostrea edulis

Ostrea edulis is a species of oyster native to Europe and commonly known as the European flat oyster, Colchester native oyster (hence Colchester natives), mud oyster, or edible oyster (despite this latter name it is not the only oyster that is edible by humans).

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Perthshire

Perthshire (Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland.

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Queen Mary Harp

The Queen Mary Harp (Clàrsach na Banrìgh Màiri) or Lude Harp, is a Scottish clarsach currently displayed in the National Museum of Scotland.

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Quitclaim deed

A quitclaim deed is a legal instrument that is used to transfer interest in real property.

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River Add

The River Add (Abhainn Àd) is a river which runs through Argyll and Bute on the West of Scotland.

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River Tay

The River Tay (Tatha) is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in the United Kingdom.

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Robert II of Scotland

Robert II (2 March 1316 – 19 April 1390) reigned as King of Scots from 1371 to his death as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.

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Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland is a learned society and registered charity of Scotland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scotland in the Early Middle Ages

Scotland was divided into a series of kingdoms in the early Middle Ages, i.e. between the end of Roman authority in southern and central Britain from around 400 CE and the rise of the kingdom of Alba in 900 CE.

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Scotland in the Middle Ages

Scotland in the Middle Ages concerns the history of Scotland from the departure of the Romans to the adoption of major aspects of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century.

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic, sometimes also referred to simply as Gaelic (Gàidhlig) or the Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba; Scots Govrenment) is the executive of the devolved Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; A’ Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland.

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Scottish Natural Heritage

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH; Dualchas Nàdair na h-Alba) is the Scottish public body responsible for the country's natural heritage, especially its natural, genetic and scenic diversity.

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Scottish Wildlife Trust

The Scottish Wildlife Trust is a registered charity dedicated to conserving the wildlife and natural environment of Scotland.

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Sheriff court

A sheriff court (cùirt an t-siorraim) is the principal local civil and criminal court in Scotland, with exclusive jurisdiction over all civil cases with a monetary up to, and with the jurisdiction to hear any criminal case except treason, murder, and rape which are in the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of Justiciary.

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Sheriffdom

A sheriffdom is a judicial district in Scotland, led by a sheriff principal.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet

Sir William James Lithgow, 2nd Baronet (born 10 May 1934) is a Scottish industrialist and vice-chairman of Lithgow Group.

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Somerled

Somerled (died 1164), known in Middle Irish as Somairle, Somhairle, and Somhairlidh, and in Old Norse as Sumarliði, was a mid-12th-century warlord who, through marital alliance and military conquest, rose in prominence and seized control of the Kingdom of the Isles.

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Sound of Jura

The Sound of Jura is a strait in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Special Protection Area

A Special Protection Area (SPA) is a designation under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.

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Straits of Moyle

The Straits of Moyle (Sruth na Maoile in Irish and Scottish Gaelic) or Sea of Moyle is the name given to the narrowest expanse of sea in the North Channel between northeastern Northern Ireland (County Antrim) and southwestern highlands of Scotland (Mull of Kintyre).

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Suibhne mac Duinnshléibhe

Suibhne mac Duinnshléibhe was a late 12th-century, and early 13th-century, lord in Argyll.

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Tarbert

Tarbert (An Tairbeart) is a place name in Scotland and Ireland.

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Tarbertshire

Tarbertshire, or the sheriffdom of Tarbert, was a shire of Scotland until 1633, when it was annexed to Argyllshire.

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Taynish National Nature Reserve

Taynish National Nature Reserve (NNR) is situated southwest of the village of Tayvallich on the west coast of Scotland.

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Tayvallich

Tayvallich, pronounced "Tay-vee-al-ich" (Taigh a' Bhealaich), is a small village in the Knapdale area of Argyll and Bute, in Scotland.

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Temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rainfall.

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Treaty of Perth

The Treaty of Perth, signed 2 July 1266, ended military conflict between Magnus VI of Norway and Alexander III of Scotland over the sovereignty of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.

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Ulster

Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr or Ulster) is a province in the north of the island of Ireland.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom census, 1991

A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 1991, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 21 April 1991.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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Walter Bailloch

Walter Bailloch, also known as Walter Bailloch Stewart (1225/1230 – 1293/1294), was distinguished by the sobriquet Bailloch or Balloch, a Gaelic nickname roughly translated as "the freckled".

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Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, associated with a red rose, and the House of York, whose symbol was a white rose.

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West Loch Tarbert, Argyll

West Loch Tarbert, Argyll is a long and narrow sea loch on the western side of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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12th century

The 12th century is the period from 1101 to 1200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era.

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13th century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1201 through December 31, 1300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era.

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8th century

The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapdale

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