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Mudgee (/ m ʌ dʒ i /) is a town in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley 261 km (162 mi) north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area as well as being the council seat.
The recorded history of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as the Antonine Wall. North of this was Caledonia , inhabited by the Picti , whose uprisings forced Rome's legions back to Hadrian's Wall .
Lochee (/ l ɒ ˈ x iː /) is an area in the west of Dundee, Scotland.Until the 19th century, it was a separate town, but was eventually surrounded by the expanding Dundee. It is notable for being home to Camperdown Works, which was the largest jute production site in the world.
Southern border of Scotland established in the Treaty of York. 1263: Scots defeat Norwegians in the Battle of Largs. 1266: Norway cedes the Hebrides and Isle of Man to Scotland in the Treaty of Perth. 1290 Margaret, Maid of Norway dies in Orkney. 1292: Edward I of England intervenes in Scottish affairs and grants the Scottish throne to John ...
Mudgee Town Hall is a heritage-listed former town hall and now library and theatre at 64 Market Street, Mudgee, Mid-Western Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia. The property is owned by Mid-Western Regional Council. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. [1]
Duncan, A.A.M (1989) Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom. The Edinburgh History of Scotland 1. Mercat Press. Edinburgh. Forsyth, Katherine (2000) "Evidence of a lost Pictish Source in the Historia Regum Anglorum of Symeon of Durham", with an appendix by John T. Koch. pp. 27–28 in Simon Taylor (ed.) (2000).
Map of Scotland, c. 580–600. Pictish regions are marked in yellow. Cumbrian regions in white. Gaelic regions in green. Anciently, the territory now referred to as Scotland belonged to a mixture of Brythonic groups (Picts and Cumbrians) and Angles. The Picts were based north of the Forth–Clyde line, traditionally in seven kingdoms: Cat (the ...
The spate was a natural disaster unparalleled in the historic record of the north-east of Scotland described as one of "the most severe catastrophic floods in modern UK history". [1] Based on the eyewitness accounts recorded by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder it has been possible to estimate peak flows down the main river of up to 1,484 m3/sec and 451 ...