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Roza Salih (born 1989) is an Iraqi-Kurdish born, Scottish politician and human rights activist. [1] [2] [3] In 2005, at the age of 15, she co-founded the Glasgow Girls with fellow pupils from Drumchapel High School. [4]
Holyrood (/ ˈ h ɒ l i r uː d /; Scots: Halyruid, [1] Scottish Gaelic: Taigh an Ròid [2]) is an area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, lying east of the city centre, at the foot of the Royal Mile. The area takes its name from Holyrood Abbey, which was the Church of the Holy Rude (Scots for 'Holy Cross'). Holyrood includes the following ...
The Palace of Holyroodhouse (/ ˈ h ɒ l ɪ r uː d / or / ˈ h oʊ l ɪ r uː d /), [1] commonly known as Holyrood Palace, is the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland.Located at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, at the opposite end to Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood has served as the principal royal residence in Scotland since the 16th century, and is a setting for state ...
Holy Rood High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school situated on the edge of Holyrood Park, near Arthur's Seat beside Duddingston Village, in Edinburgh. It is about half a mile a way from Castlebrae Community High School.
The King's Gallery is housed primarily in a Gothic building that was originally built between 1846 and 1850 as Holyrood Free Church, a parish church of the Free Church of Scotland then, from 1900, of the United Free Church of Scotland). [2] The church was last used for worship in 1915, when it became a redundant church. Prior to its conversion ...
Holyrood was founded in 1874 [5] and was established as a city in 1886. [6] The original site of Holyrood was a half-mile south of Holyrood's present site. [5] When settlers first moved into the area, dugout houses were the home of choice. [5] The first settlers of Holyrood were Irish, but they were soon followed by people of German and Czech ...
The "Royal Mile" is a name coined in the early 20th century for the main street of the Old Town which runs on a downwards slope from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Palace and the ruined Holyrood Abbey. Narrow closes (alleyways), often no more than a few feet wide, lead steeply downhill to both north and south of the main spine which runs west to ...
Holyrood, Edinburgh, an area of Edinburgh, Scotland Holyrood, a metonym for the Scottish Parliament or the Scottish Parliament Building; Holyrood Abbey, a ruined Augustinian abbey in Edinburgh; Holyrood Palace, formally the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh; Holyrood Park, a royal park in central Edinburgh; Holyrood Academy, Chard, Somerset ...