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2. Clan Mackay - Wikipedia

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   Clan Sinclair Clan Donald Clan Gunn (15th century) Clan Ross (15th century) Clan Sutherland (15th & 16th centuries) Clan Mackay (/ məˈkaɪ / mə-KY; Scottish Gaelic: Clann Mhic Aoidh [ˈkʰl̪ˠãũn̪ˠ vĩçˈkʲɤj]) is an ancient and once-powerful Highland Scottish clan from the far North of the Scottish Highlands, but with roots in the ...

3. Scottish Tartans Authority - Wikipedia

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   The Scottish Tartans Authority ( STA) is a Scottish registered charity dedicated to the promotion, protection and preservation of Scotland's national cloth. Founded in 1995, the charitable purposes of the Authority are: to protect, preserve, conserve, promote and explain the culture, traditions and uses of Scottish Tartans and Highland Dress; and.

4. Regimental tartan - Wikipedia

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   The earliest image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan (belted plaids and trews); 1631 German engraving by Georg Köler.[a]Regimental tartans are tartan patterns used in military uniforms, possibly originally by some militias of Scottish clans, certainly later by some of the Independent Highland Companies (IHCs) raised by the British government, then by the Highland regiments and many Lowland ...

5. List of tartans - Wikipedia

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   Image is the so called "Old Campbell" which is a lighter form of the Black Watch regimental tartan, adopted by Clan Campbell, and shared with clans Bannatyne, Lyon and Paterson [43] Campbell of Breadalbane. Highland clans. Second set of tartans, shared with Clan Paterson. Campbell of Cawdor.

6. Tartan - Wikipedia

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   Because tartan Highland dress was so strongly symbolically linked to the militant Jacobite cause, [297] the act – a highly political throwback to the long-abandoned sumptuary laws [297] – banned the wearing of Highland dress by men and boys in Scotland north of the River Forth (i.e. in the Highlands), [aq] except for the landed gentry [ar ...

7. List of Scottish clans - Wikipedia

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   The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans, mottoes, and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland.

8. Clan Davidson - Wikipedia

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   A Victorian depiction of the clan painted by R. R. McIan. The Clan Davidson or Clan Dhai are recorded as being wiped out as a fighting force in 1370 at the Battle of Invernahavon, which was fought between the Chattan Confederation and the Clan Cameron. [4] There was a dispute between the Davidsons and another clan of the Chattan Confederation ...

9. Clan Crawford - Wikipedia

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   Clan Crawford is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. The clan is of Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon origin. [1][4][2] There was in the early 18th century a mistaken belief that the clan had Norman origins. While historically recognised as a clan by the Court of the Lord Lyon, it is now an armigerous clan as it no longer has a chief.