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23 June – James Craig, architect, planner of the New Town, Edinburgh (born 1744) 24 June – William Smellie , encyclopedist and naturalist (born 1740 ) 10 December – John Johnstone , nabob with the East India Company and landowner (born 1734 )
Scotland's ecclesiastical history was contributed by the Rev. John Reith, B. D. its Scottish language and literature section was by John Merry Ross; the Gaelic language and literature portion was by the Rev. Archibald Clerk; Subtitled a "new edition", the book includes a 1901 United Kingdom census appendix and a map of Scotland by Collins ...
Scotland was extensively mapped for the first time. In the last quarter of the sixteenth century, Timothy Pont created a series of sketch maps of Scotland and recorded the names and details of 20,000 places he visited or noted. His work became the basis for the set of maps of Scotland published the following century by Willem and Johannes Blaeu ...
The city of Stirling has the smallest population amongst Scotland's cities, with an estimated population of just over 37,000 inhabitants. In total, Scotland consists of eight cities, with multiple larger towns, the largest town being Paisley. The section "Localities" contains a list of basic populated areas ordered by population.
James VI's Golden Charter to Perth in 1600 referred to it as a "free city and regal and royal burgh". [26] It was officially the second city of Scotland until 1975 when city status was removed when local government was reorganised. It regained the status in 2012. [27] Dunfermline was also made a royal burgh in ~1124 by David I of Scotland. [4]
Scottish municipalities have existed in the form of burgh, royal burgh, cities and, currently most common, local councils. Between 1855 and 1975, valuation rolls in Scotland were divided into counties and burghs. A burgh was a Scottish town which had certain privileges conferred by a charter and had a town council to run its affairs.
From 1787 to 1789 Ainslie worked on a new nine sheet map of Scotland publishing it in 1789. [7] The map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland and for the first time showed the Great Glen as a straight line and Skye , Mull , and Islay shown with more accuracy than had previously been seen.
This is a list of counties of Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 and abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The list includes the county town, area, and population density.