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Brodie Castle is a well-preserved Z-plan tower house located about 3.5 miles (5.5 kilometres) west of Forres, in Moray, Scotland. The castle is a Category A listed building , [ 1 ] and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland .
Brodie can be a given name or a surname of Scottish origin, and a location in Moray, Scotland, its meaning is uncertain; it is not clear if Brodie, as a word, has its origins in the Gaelic or Pictish languages. In 2012 this name was the 53rd most popular boys' name in Scotland. [2] The given name originates from the surname. [3]
Brody Castle in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. Bródy is a Hungarian surname. The "ó" is a long o [o:] in Hungarian, and the "y" indicates a "from": "from Bród". This surname is also associated with the Ukrainian city of Brody.
It is uncertain if the Brodies took their name from the lands of Brodie, or that the lands were named after the clan. [17] After the Tòiseachs, whose names are lost, we find a reference to MacBeth, Thane of Dyke in 1262; next, in 1311, a Latin reference to Michael, filius Malconi, Thanus de Brothie et Dyke. It is unclear if Macbeth, Thane of ...
The earliest information about the construction of the castle in Brody town refers to the 1580s. Crown Hetman (Polish: Hetman polny koronny) Stanisław Koniecpolski acquired Brody town in 1629 and built the castle bastion of a new type between 1630 and 1635 under the supervision of Italian architect Andrea del Aqua, based on a design by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan.
NEW YORK – Adrien Brody is back with a career-best performance. Twenty-two years after his Oscar-winning turn in “The Pianist,” the 51-year-old actor could very well pick up a second golden ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent.. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
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