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*THE 32 ‘COUNCIL AREAS’ OF ‘SCOTLAND’*
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/ˈskɒt.lənd/
‘scots’ –> [ˈskɔt.lənd]
‘scottish gaelic’ –> alba [ˈal̪ˠapə]
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(‘scotland’ is a country that is part of the ‘united kingdom’ + covers the ‘northern third’ of the island of ‘great britain’)
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(it shares a border with ‘england’ to the south, and is otherwise surrounded by the ‘atlantic ocean’,
with the ‘north sea’ to the east
and the ‘north channel’ and ‘irish sea’ to the southwest)
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(in addition to the mainland, the country is made up of more than 790 islands, including the northern isles and the hebrides)
(the Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the Early Middle Ages and continued to exist until 1707)
(by inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots, became King of England and King of Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the 3 kingdoms)
Scotland subsequently entered into a political union with the Kingdom of England on 1 May 1707 to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain.
(The Treaty of Union was agreed in 1706 and enacted by the twin Acts of Union 1707, passed by the Parliaments of both kingdoms, despite popular opposition and anti-union riots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere)
(the union also created a new Parliament of Great Britain, which succeeded both the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England)
(In 1801, Great Britain itself entered into a political union with the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
the Parliament of Ireland merging with that of Great Britain to form the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Since the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the United Kingdom has comprised Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
The monarchy of the United Kingdom continues to use a variety of styles, titles and other royal symbols of statehood specific to pre-union Scotland, including:
the Royal Standard of Scotland,
the Royal coat of arms used in Scotland together with its associated Royal Standard,
royal titles including that of
Duke of Rothesay,
certain Great Officers of State,
the chivalric Order of the Thistle
and, since 1999, reinstating a ceremonial role for the Crown of Scotland after a 292-year hiatus.
Scotland’s legal system has also remained separate from those of England and Wales and Northern Ireland, and Scotland constitutes a distinct jurisdiction in public and private law.
The continued existence of legal, educational, religious and other institutions distinct from those in the remainder of the UK have all contributed to the continuation of Scottish culture and national identity since the 1707 union with England.
Edinburgh, the country’s capital and second-largest city, was the hub of the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, which transformed Scotland into one of the commercial, intellectual, and industrial powerhouses of Europe.
Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, was once one of the world’s leading industrial cities and now lies at the centre of the Greater Glasgow conurbation.
Other major urban areas are Aberdeen and Dundee.
Scottish waters consist of a large sector of the North Atlantic and the North Sea, containing the largest oil reserves in the European Union.
This has given Aberdeen, the third-largest city in Scotland, the title of Europe’s oil capital.
Following a referendum in 1997, a Scottish Parliament was re-established, in the form of a devolved unicameral legislature comprising 129 members, having authority over many areas of domestic policy.
(the ‘Scottish National Party’, (SNP), which supports Scottish independence, won an overall majority in the 2011 Scottish Parliament general election and legislated for an independence referendum which was held on 18 September 2014; a majority of 55% to 45% rejected independence on an 85% voter turnout)
(the ‘UK conservative party’ won an overall majority in the 2015 UK general election and legislated for a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union which was held on 23 June 2016;
within Scotland, a majority of 62% to 38% rejected withdrawal from the EU on a 67% voter turnout)
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(‘scotland’ is represented in…)
the ‘UK parliament’
(59 MPs)
‘the european parliament’
(6 MEPs)
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(‘scotland’ is also a ‘member nation’ of the ‘british–irish council’, and the ‘british–irish parliamentary assembly’)
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👈👈👈☜*3 SLICES OF ‘GREAT BRITAIN’* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥