Definition of Scotland

Scotland

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Noun
1. one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
(hypernym) European country, European nation
(part-holonym) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
(member-meronym) Scot, Scotsman, Scotchman
(part-meronym) Antonine Wall
(class) Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church of Scotland
(class) bashful, blate

scotland

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 earl marshal of scotland 
 the curse of scotland 

Scotland
Albain, otherwise: Alba [All bah], Alban

Alban
Alban = n. upper part. Scotland

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Background
Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the earth's surface. The first half of the 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed the dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous European nation. As one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council, a founding member of NATO, and of the Commonwealth, the UK pursues a global approach to foreign policy; it currently is weighing the degree of its integration with continental Europe. A member of the EU, it chose to remain outside the Economic and Monetary Union for the time being. Constitutional reform is also a significant issue in the UK. The Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly were established in 1999, but the latter is suspended due to bickering over the peace process.

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Country name:	conventional long form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; note - Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales conventional short form: United Kingdom abbreviation: UK
Government type:	constitutional monarchy
Capital:	London
Administrative divisions:	England - 47 boroughs, 36 counties, 29 London boroughs, 12 cities and boroughs, 10 districts, 12 cities, 3 royal boroughs : boroughs: Barnsley, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bournemouth, Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, Bury, Calderdale, Darlington, Doncaster, Dudley, Gateshead, Halton, Hartlepool, Kirklees, Knowsley, Luton, Medway, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, North Tyneside, Oldham, Poole, Reading, Redcar and Cleveland, Rochdale, Rotherham, Sandwell, Sefton, Slough, Solihull, Southend-on-Sea, South Tyneside, St. Helens, Stockport, Stockton-on-Tees, Swindon, Tameside, Thurrock, Torbay, Trafford, Walsall, Warrington, Wigan, Wirral, Wolverhampton : counties: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Worcestershire : London boroughs: Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth : cities and boroughs: Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Salford, Sheffield, Sunderland, Wakefield, Westminster : districts: Bath and North East Somerset, East Riding of Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Somerset, Rutland, South Gloucestershire, Telford and Wrekin, West Berkshire, Wokingham : cities: City of Bristol, Derby, City of Kingston upon Hull, Leicester, City of London, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, York : royal boroughs: Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Windsor and Maidenhead : Northern Ireland - 24 districts, 2 cities, 6 counties : districts: Antrim, Ards, Armagh, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Banbridge, Carrickfergus, Castlereagh, Coleraine, Cookstown, Craigavon, Down, Dungannon, Fermanagh, Larne, Limavady, Lisburn, Magherafelt, Moyle, Newry and Mourne, Newtownabbey, North Down, Omagh, Strabane : cities: Belfast, Derry : counties: County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry, County Tyrone : Scotland - 32 council areas: Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, The Scottish Borders, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee City, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, City of Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow City, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney Islands, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, Eilean Siar (Western Isles), West Lothian; : Wales - 11 county boroughs, 9 counties, 2 cities and counties : county boroughs: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Conwy, Gwynedd, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Torfaen, Wrexham : counties: Isle of Anglesey, Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Powys, The Vale of Glamorgan : cities and counties: Cardiff, Swansea
Dependent areas:	Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena and Ascension, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands
Independence:	England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century; the union between England and Wales, begun in 1284 with the Statute of Rhuddlan, was not formalized until 1536 with an Act of Union; in another Act of Union in 1707, England and Scotland agreed to permanently join as Great Britain; the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was implemented in 1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland and the current name of the country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in 1927
National holiday:	the UK does not celebrate one particular national holiday
Constitution:	unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice
Legal system:	common law tradition with early Roman and modern continental influences; has judicial review of Acts of Parliament under the Human Rights Act of 1998; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Suffrage:	18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:	chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952); Heir Apparent Prince CHARLES (son of the queen, born 14 November 1948) head of government: Prime Minister Anthony (Tony) BLAIR (since 2 May 1997) cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers appointed by the prime minister elections: none; the monarchy is hereditary; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually the prime minister
Legislative branch:	bicameral Parliament comprised of House of Lords (consists of approximately 500 life peers, 92 hereditary peers and 26 clergy) and House of Commons (646 seats since 2005 elections; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms unless the House is dissolved earlier) elections: House of Lords - no elections (note - in 1999, as provided by the House of Lords Act, elections were held in the House of Lords to determine the 92 hereditary peers who would remain there; pending further reforms, elections are held only as vacancies in the hereditary peerage arise); House of Commons - last held 5 May 2005 (next to be held by May 2010) election results: House of Commons - percent of vote by party - Labor 35.2%, Conservative 32.3%, Liberal Democrats 22%, other 10.5%; seats by party - Labor 356, Conservative 197, Liberal Democrat 62, other 31 note: in 1998 elections were held for a Northern Ireland Assembly (because of unresolved disputes among existing parties, the transfer of power from London to Northern Ireland came only at the end of 1999 and has been suspended four times the latest occurring in October 2002); in 1999 there were elections for a new Scottish Parliament and a new Welsh Assembly
Judicial branch:	House of Lords (highest court of appeal; several Lords of Appeal in Ordinary are appointed by the monarch for life); Supreme Courts of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (comprising the Courts of Appeal, the High Courts of Justice, and the Crown Courts); Scotland's Court of Session and Court of the Justiciary
Political parties and leaders:	Conservative and Unionist Party [Michael HOWARD]; Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [Rev. Ian PAISLEY]; Labor Party [Anthony (Tony) BLAIR]; Liberal Democrats [Charles KENNEDY]; Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Dafydd IWAN]; Scottish National Party or SNP [Alex SALMOND]; Sinn Fein (Northern Ireland) [Gerry ADAMS]; Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP (Northern Ireland) [Mark DURKAN]; Ulster Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [Sir Reg EMPEY]
Political pressure groups and leaders:	Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Confederation of British Industry; National Farmers' Union; Trades Union Congress
International organization participation:	AfDB, AsDB, Australia Group, BIS, C, CDB, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, G- 5, G- 7, G- 8, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MIGA, MONUC, NAM (guest), NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, UN, UN Security Council, UNAMSIL, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNMIK, UNMIL, UNMOVIC, UNOMIG, UNRWA, UPU, WCO, WEU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
Diplomatic representation in the US:	chief of mission: Ambassador David G. MANNING chancery: 3100 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 telephone: [1] (202) 588-6500 FAX: [1] (202) 588-7870 consulate(s) general: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco consulate(s): Dallas, Denver, Miami, and Seattle
Diplomatic representation from the US:	chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires David T. JOHNSON embassy: 24/31 Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1AE mailing address: PSC 801, Box 40, FPO AE 09498-4040 telephone: [44] (0) 20 7499-9000 FAX: [44] (0) 20 7629-9124 consulate(s) general: Belfast, Edinburgh
Flag description:	blue field with the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England) edged in white superimposed on the diagonal red cross of Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), which is superimposed on the diagonal white cross of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland); properly known as the Union Flag, but commonly called the Union Jack; the design and colors (especially the Blue Ensign) have been the basis for a number of other flags including other Commonwealth countries and their constituent states or provinces, as well as British overseas territories

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Scotland

("Alba" in Gaelic)
Land of the famous and unique Scotch Whisky.
For to be named "Scotch Whisky" has to be distilled and matured in Scotland.

Queen of Scotland
Queen of Scotland Red Label, Blended Scotch Whisky

By: Akredyke Whisky Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland)

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
School for wizard students ages 11-17; probably located in Scotland.

Ferguson, Barry
Glasgow Rangers & Scotland

Birthdate: February 2, 1978
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Height: 181 cms
Weight: 75 kgs
Position: Midfielder
International: 17 caps, 3 goals (as of September 10, 2000)
World Cups: 0
Previous Clubs: None
Transfer Fee: -
The new Ibrox golden boy. Has been described as the hottest property in Scottish football. Was a driving force during the '99-00 season as Rangers swept to both the title and Scottish Cup and was named the Scottish Footballer of the Year by soccer journalists. Was ready to leave Rangers until Dick Advocaat arrived because he was frustrated at not getting a first team place. Named as the 'SPFA Young Player of the Year in '99, even though a pelvic injury cut short his involvement in the completion of the Treble. Has begun to added a goalscoring touch to his renowned passing ability. Has now signed a deal that will keep him at the club until 2005.

Gallacher, Kevin
Newcastle & Scotland

Birthdate: November 23, 1966
Birthplace: Clydebank, Scotland
Height: 171 cms
Weight: 62 kgs
Position: Forward
International: 45 caps, 8 goals (as of September 10, 2000)
World Cups: 1 (1998)
Previous Clubs: Dundee United, Coventry City, Blackburn Rovers
Transfer Fee: $0.83 Millions of Dollars
Joined Newcastle United from division Blackburn Rovers in October '99 in a 500,000 pound ($826,000) deal. This Scottish international is a continuous threat to defenders with his prodigious energy, quick, darting movement and running off the ball. Scored 28 goals in 100 matches for Coventry before moving to Rovers in March 1993.

Hendry, Colin
Coventry City & Scotland

Birthdate: December 7, 1965
Birthplace: Keith, Scotland
Height: 1.94 mts
Weight: 83 kgs
Position: Defender
International: 50 caps, 1 goals (as of September 10, 2000)
World Cups: 1 (1998)
Previous Clubs: Keith, Dundee, Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers, Glasgow Rangers
Transfer Fee: $1.59 Millions of Dollars
Joined Coventry City from Rangers in February 2000. Says Hendry: "I fancied coming here and doing my bit for the club. With what I can hopefully bring, we can be close to some real success." Joined his boyhood idols Glasgow Rangers from Blackburn in a four million pound ($6.5 million) move in August '98. Described joining Rangers as "my dream homecoming" after nine years in English football but his 18-month stay with the club was marred by injury and a loss of form. Fierce in the tackle, superb in the air and a born leader, Hendry is the king-pin of Scotland's defence.

Lambert, Paul
Celtic & Scotland

Birthdate: August 7, 1969
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Height: 179 cms
Weight: 69 kgs
Position: Midfielder
International: 19 caps, 0 goals (as of June 29, 2000)
World Cups: 1 (1998)
Previous Clubs: St. Mirren, Motherwell, Borussia Dortmund
Transfer Fee: $3.30 Millions of Dollars
Tireless worker in midfield and an important part of the Scotland integame improved massively and he developed into a fine midfield anchor and man-marker. However, his wife, Monica, found it difficult to settle in Germany and his game was affected by the disruption of his domestic arrangements and he struggled to command a first-team prnational side. Enjoyed a fairy-tale rise to stardom when he left Motherwell as a free agent in 1996 and found his way to Borussia Dortmund. Lambert was considered to be a surprising signing for the German champions, whose squad possessed a large number of well-known international players from several countries. However, he had previously impressed Ottmar Hitzfeld, the then manager of Dortmund, when Motherwell had met Dortmund in the UEFA Cup. Won a European Cup winner's medal with the German club, Lambert being the only outfield player to take part in every tie played by the Germans on their way to the their final victory over Juventus. At Dortmund, Lambert's lace under Dortmund's new manager, Nevio Scala. Signed for Celtic from Dortmund for two million pounds ($3.3 million) in November '97, helping the Glasgow giants to their first title in nine years.

McNamara, Jackie
Celtic & Scotland

Birthdate: October 24, 1973
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Height: 177 cms
Weight: 65 kgs
Position: Defender
International: 28 caps, 2 goals (as of June 29, 2000)
World Cups: 1 (1998)
Previous Clubs: Dunfermline
Transfer Fee: -

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