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2. Scottish Highlands - Wikipedia

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   The Highlands (Scots: the Hielands; Scottish Gaelic: a' Ghàidhealtachd [ə ˈɣɛːəl̪ˠt̪ʰəxk], lit. ' the place of the Gaels ') is a historical region of Scotland. [1] [failed verification] Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands.

3. List of historic sites in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   There are thousands of historic sites and attractions in Scotland. These include Neolithic Standing stones and Stone Circles, Bronze Age settlements, Iron Age Brochs and Crannogs, Pictish stones, Roman forts and camps, Viking settlements, Mediaeval castles, and early Christian settlements. Scotland also played an important role in the ...

4. List of towns and villages in the Scottish Highlands - Wikipedia

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   Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross; Aboyne, Aberdeenshire; Achfary, Highland; Alness, Highland; Altnaharra, Highland; Applecross, Highland; Arisaig, Highland; Ardlui ...

5. Tourism in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   Scotland is a popular destination for hunting, especially deer and grouse. Scotland's best known export is Scotch Whisky and numerous visitors a year enjoy a tour around its Whisky distilleries. The Highlands is by far the largest region in Scotland both in area and in whisky production. This massive area has over 30 distilleries on the mainland.

6. Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park - Wikipedia

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   The area has long been popular with tourists, with the Trossachs being one of the first parts of Scotland to become a recognised tourist destination due to its position on the southern edge of the Highlands and to the quality of the scenery, which may be considered to represent a microcosm of a typical Highland landscape. [13]

7. Wester Ross - Wikipedia

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   Wester Ross (Scottish Gaelic: Ros an Iar) is an area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the council area of Highland.The area is loosely defined, and has never been used as a formal administrative region in its own right, [2] but is generally regarded as lying to the west of the main watershed of Ross (the eastern part of Ross being Easter Ross), thus forming the western half of the ...