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2. Château de Caen - Wikipedia

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   The castle was constructed on a hillock and is now in the middle of the city. With an area of 5.5 hectares, it is one of the largest castles in Western Europe. It remained an essential feature of Norman strategy and policy. Exchequer, inside the castle of Caen. Today, the castle serves as a museum that houses

3. List of castles in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire. This is a list of castles in Scotland.A castle is a type of fortified structure built primarily during the Middle Ages.Scholars debate the scope of the word "castle", but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble.

4. Castles in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   Scottish castle guidebooks became well known for providing long historical accounts of their sites, often drawing on the plots of Romantic novels for the details. [60] [61] Sir Walter Scott's novels set in Scotland popularised several northern castles, including Tantallon, which was featured in the poem Marmion (1808). [62]

5. Caen - Wikipedia

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   The first references to the name of Caen are found in different acts of the dukes of Normandy: Cadon 1021/1025, [7] Cadumus 1025, [8] Cathim 1026/1027. [9] Year 1070 of the Parker manuscript [10] of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle refers to Caen as Kadum, [11] and year 1086 of the Laud manuscript [12] gives the name as Caþum. [13]

6. Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen - Wikipedia

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   Tomb of William the Conqueror (d.1087). The concurrent founding of the Abbey of Saint-Étienne to the west of the Caen Castle and the Abbey of Sainte-Trinité (Abbaye aux Dames) to its East were to enhance the development of the new ducal capital, and may have been a result of the reconciliation process of William, Duke of Normandy (soon after to become William I, King of England), and Pope ...

7. Inside the Castle of Mey, King Charles's Private Home in Scotland

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   The Castle was built between 1566 and 1572 by George, the 4th Earl of Caithness, for his son William Sinclair. According to the Historic Environment Scotland, "[George's] initials and those of his ...