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Edinburgh, (Scottish Gaelic: Důn
Čideann) is the capital of Scotland and is its second largest city
after Glasgow. It is one of Scotland's 32 local government council
areas and is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom.
Located in the south-east of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east
coast of Scotland's Central Belt, along the Firth of Forth, near the
North Sea. Owing to its rugged setting and vast collection of
Medieval and Georgian architecture, including numerous stone
tenements, it is often considered one of the most picturesque cities
in Europe.
It forms the City of Edinburgh council area; the city council area
includes urban Edinburgh and a 30-square-mile (78 km˛) rural area.
It has been capital of Scotland since 1437 (replacing Scone) and is
the seat of the Scottish Parliament. The city was one of the major
centres of the Enlightenment, led by the University of Edinburgh,
earning it the nickname Athens of the North. The Old Town and New
Town districts of Edinburgh were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage
Site in 1995. There are over 4,500 listed buildings within the city.
In the census of 2001, Edinburgh had a total resident population of
448,625.
Edinburgh is well-known for the annual Edinburgh Festival, a
collection of official and independent festivals held annually over
about four weeks from early August. The number of visitors attracted
to Edinburgh for the Festival is roughly equal to the settled
population of the city. The most famous of these events are the
Edinburgh Fringe (the largest performing arts festival in the
world), the Edinburgh Comedy Festival (the largest comedy festival
in the world), the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh
Military Tattoo, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and the
Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Other notable events include the Hogmanay street party (31
December), Burns Night (25 January), St. Andrew's Day (November 30),
and the Beltane Fire Festival (30 April).
The city is one of Europe's major tourist destinations, attracting
around 13 million visitors a year, and is the second most visited
tourist destination in the United Kingdom, after London.
Football
Edinburgh has two professional football clubs: Hibernian and Heart
of Midlothian. They are known locally as Hibs and Hearts. Both teams
currently play in the Scottish Premier League: Hibernian at Easter
Road Stadium, which straddles the former boundary between Edinburgh
and Leith and Hearts at Tynecastle Stadium in Gorgie.
Edinburgh was also home to senior sides St Bernard's, Ferranti
Thistle F.C. and most recently, Meadowbank Thistle until 1995, when
the club moved to Livingston, shedding their old name and becoming
Livingston F.C.. The Scottish national team has played some friendly
matches at Easter Road and Tynecastle.
Non-league sides include Spartans and Edinburgh City, who play in
the East of Scotland League along with Civil Service Strollers F.C.,
Lothian Thistle F.C., Edinburgh University A.F.C., Edinburgh
Athletic F.C., Tynecastle F.C., Craigroyston F.C. and Heriot-Watt
University F.C.. There is one team who plays in the Scottish Junior
Football Association, East Region: Edinburgh United F.C..
Other sports
The Scotland national rugby union team plays at Murrayfield Stadium,
which is owned by the Scottish Rugby Union and is also used as a
venue for other events, including music concerts. Edinburgh's
professional rugby team, Edinburgh Rugby, play in the Celtic League
at Murrayfield. It is the largest capacity stadium in Scotland.
Raeburn Place is notable for holding the first rugby international
game between Scotland and England.
The Scottish cricket team, who represent Scotland at cricket
internationally and in the C&G Trophy, play their home matches at
The Grange in Stockbridge.
The Edinburgh Capitals are the latest of a succession of ice hockey
clubs to represent the Scottish capital. Previously Edinburgh was
represented by the Murrayfield Racers and the Edinburgh Racers. The
club play their home games at the Murrayfield Ice Rink and are the
sole Scottish representative in the Elite Ice Hockey League.
The Heart of MidlothianThe Edinburgh Diamond Devils is a baseball
club claiming its first Scottish Championship in 1991 as the "Reivers."
1992 saw the team repeat as national champions, becoming the first
team to do so in league history and saw the start of the club's
first youth team, the Blue Jays. The name of the club was changed in
1999.
Edinburgh has also hosted various national and international sports
events including the World Student Games, the 1970 British
Commonwealth Games, the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the inaugural
2000 Commonwealth Youth Games. For the Games in 1970 the city built
major Olympic standard venues and facilities including the Royal
Commonwealth Pool and the Meadowbank Stadium.
In American football, the Scottish Claymores played WLAF/NFL Europe
games at Murrayfield, including their World Bowl 96 victory. From
1995 to 1997 they played all their games there, from 1998 to 2000
they split their home matches between Murrayfield and Glasgow's
Hampden Park, then moved to Glasgow full-time, with one final
Murrayfield appearance in 2002. The city's most successful
non-professional team are the Edinburgh Wolves who currently play at
Meadowbank Stadium.
The Edinburgh Marathon has been held in the city since 1999 with
more than 13,000 taking part annually.
Edinburgh has a speedway team, the Edinburgh Monarchs, which
currently is based at the Lothian Arena in Armadale, West Lothian.
They have operated there since 1997. Speedway was introduced to
Edinburgh at the Marine Gardens Stadium in Seafield Road and it
operated 1928–31 and 1938–39. The Edinburgh team of 1930 operated in
the Northern League. In 1948 speedway returned to the city at Old
Meadowbank. The Monarchs operated there 1948–54 as members of the
National League Division Two. Training events were staged at Old
Meadowbank occasionally from 1957–59. Two Students Charities events
were staged one in 1959 and the other in 1960. Between 1960–67 the
Monarchs were members of the Provincial League and from 1965 members
of the British League. Following a 10-year gap the Monarchs returned
to Powderhall Stadium and raced there 1977–95. A training track
operated at the Gyle in the late 1960s. Between 1949 and 1951
Edinburgh was the home track of Australian rider Jack Young who won
the World Championship in 1951.
The Honourable Society of Edinburgh Boaters, Scotland's only punting
society, used to ply the waters of the Union Canal from a base at
Hermiston House. The Society staged several regattas and engaged in
the annual Scottish Boat Race against Cambridge University Dampers
Club with mixed success.
Lothian (Lowden in Scots, Lodainn in
Gaelic) forms a traditional region of Scotland, lying between the
southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills.
Historically, the term Lothian is used for a province encompassing
the present area plus the Scottish Borders region. The name is
related to the legendary British King Loth or Lot. In the 7th
century it became the northern part of the Angle Kingdom of
Northumbria.
Subsequent Scottish history saw Lothian subdivided into the shires
of West Lothian, Midlothian and East Lothian — leading to the phrase
"the Lothians". Occasionally these were known by the anglicised
names of "Linlithgowshire", "Edinburghshire" and "Haddingtonshire",
which omitted all reference to Lothian.The regions consisted of
districts as follows:
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Aberdeen in Grampian, Angus in Tayside,
Annandale and Eskdale in Dumfries and Galloway,
Argyll in Strathclyde,
Badenoch and Strathspey in Highland,
Banff and Buchan in Grampian,
Bearsden and Milngavie in Strathclyde,
Berwickshire in Borders,
Caithness in Highland,
Clackmannan in Central,
Clydebank in Strathclyde,
Clydesdale in Strathclyde,
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth in Strathclyde,
Cumnock and Doon Valley in Strathclyde,
Cunninghame in Strathclyde,
Dumbarton in Strathclyde,
Dundee in Tayside,
Dunfermline in Fife,
East Kilbride in Strathclyde,
East Lothian in Lothian,
Eastwood in Strathclyde,
Edinburgh in Lothian,
Ettrick and Lauderdale in Borders,
Falkirk in Central,
Glasgow in Strathclyde,
Gordon in Grampian,
Hamilton in Strathclyde,
Inverclyde in Strathclyde,
Inverness in Highland,
Kilmarnock and Loudoun in Strathclyde,
Kincardine and Deeside in Grampian,
Kirkcaldy in Fife,
Kyle and Carrick in Strathclyde,
Lochaber in Highland,
Midlothian in Lothian,
Monklands in Strathclyde,
Moray in Grampian,
Motherwell in Strathclyde,
Nairn in Highland,
Nithsdale in Dumfries and Galloway,
North-East Fife in Fife,
Orkney Islands in Orkney Islands,
Perth and Kinross in Tayside,
Renfrew in Strathclyde,
Ross and Cromarty in Highland,
Roxburgh in Borders,
Shetland Islands in Shetland Islands,
Skye and Lochalsh in Highland,
Stewartry in Dumfries and Galloway,
Stirling in Central,
Strathkelvin in Strathclyde,
Sutherland in Highland,
Tweeddale in Borders,
Western Isles in Western Isles,
West Lothian in Lothian,
Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway |
