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This is a list of sister cities in the United States.Sister cities, known in Europe as town twins, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states and other sub-national entities.
The Scandinavian influence in Scotland was probably at its height in the mid-11th century [186] during the time of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, who attempted to create a single political and ecclesiastical domain stretching from Shetland to Man. [187] The Suðreyjar have a total land area of approximately 8,374 square kilometres (3,233 sq mi).
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Sign in Carnoustie with its twin town Map of Scotland. This is a list of places in Scotland which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Athens (locally / ˈ eɪ θ ən z / AY-thənz) is a small unincorporated village in Fayette County to the east of Interstate 75 in Kentucky in the United States. First settled in 1786 as the community of Cross Plains , [ 2 ] the town was chartered as Athens in 1826 [ 3 ] and had its own post office from that time until 1906. [ 4 ]
Last of the Free: A History of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1-84018-376-4. Jennings, Andrew, and Kruse, Arne, "One Coast – Three Peoples: Names and Ethnicity in the Scottish West during the Early Viking period" in Woolf, Alex, ed. (2009). Scandinavian Scotland – Twenty Years After. St Andrews: St ...
The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in the Appalachian Plateau region of the United States.Referred to locally as the "Tri-State area," and colloquially as "Kyova" (Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia), the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. [5]
General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003) Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands. Retrieved 22 January 2011. Gillen, Con (2003) Geology and landscapes of Scotland. Harpenden. Terra Publishing. ISBN 1-903544-09-2; Keay, J. & Keay, J. (1994) Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. London. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255082-2