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Burghead, the Glossary

Burghead (Burgheid or The Broch, Am Broch) is a small town in Moray, Scotland, about north-west of Elgin.^[1]

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Towns in Moray

A96 road

The A96 is a major road in the north of Scotland.

Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous Scottish city.

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Aberdeen International Airport (Port-adhair Eadar-nàiseanta Obar Dheathain) is an international airport, located in the Dyce suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, approximately northwest of Aberdeen city centre.

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Aberdeen railway station

Aberdeen railway station is the main railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Aberdeen–Inverness line

The Aberdeen–Inverness line is a railway line in Scotland linking and.

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Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Aiberdeenshire; Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Archaeological excavation

In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains.

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Arqiva

Arqiva is a British telecommunications company which provides infrastructure, broadcast transmission and smart meter facilities in the United Kingdom.

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Baptistery

In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Old French baptisterie; Latin baptisterium; Greek βαπτιστήριον, 'bathing-place, baptistery', from βαπτίζειν, baptízein, 'to baptize') is the separate centrally planned structure surrounding the baptismal font.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Burghead

Burghead (Burgheid or The Broch, Am Broch) is a small town in Moray, Scotland, about north-west of Elgin. Burghead and Burghead are towns in Moray.

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Burghead Bulls

The Burghead Bulls are a group of carved Pictish stones from the site of Burghead Fort in Moray, Scotland, each featuring an incised image of a bull.

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Burghead Fort

Burghead Fort was a Pictish promontory fort on the site now occupied by the small town of Burghead in Moray, Scotland.

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Burghead Thistle F.C.

Burghead Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football team, based in Burghead, Moray.

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Burghead Transmitting Station

The Burghead transmitting station is a broadcasting facility near Burghead in Scotland for long wave and medium wave radio transmission that started service on 12 October 1936.

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Calendar (New Style) Act 1750

The Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 (24 Geo. 2. c. 23), also known as Chesterfield's Act or (in American usage) the British Calendar Act of 1751, is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Dark Ages (historiography)

The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages (–10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages (–15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.

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Dennis Harding

Dennis William Harding, (born 1940), known as D. W. Harding, is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the British Iron Age.

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Doric dialect (Scotland)

Doric, the popular name for Mid Northern Scots or Northeast Scots, refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland.

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Dufftown

Dufftown (Baile Bhainidh) is a burgh in Moray, Scotland. Burghead and Dufftown are towns in Moray.

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Duffus

Duffus (Dubhais) is a village and parish in Moray, Scotland.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Elgin Academy, Moray

Elgin Academy is a secondary school in Elgin, Moray, Scotland.

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Elgin railway station

Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, Moray in Scotland.

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Elgin, Moray

Elgin (Ailgin; Eilginn) is a historic town (former cathedral city) and formerly a royal burgh in Moray, Scotland. Burghead and Elgin, Moray are towns in Moray.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Findhorn

Findhorn (Inbhir Èir or Inbhir Èireann) is a village in Moray, Scotland.

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First-past-the-post voting

First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.

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Fochabers

Fochabers (Fachabair or Fothabair) is a village in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, east of the cathedral city of Elgin and located on the east bank of the River Spey.

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Forres

Forres (Farrais) is a town and former royal burgh in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately northeast of Inverness and west of Elgin. Burghead and Forres are towns in Moray.

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Fraserburgh

Fraserburgh (Baile nam Frisealach), locally known as the Broch, is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with a population recorded in the 2011 Census as 13,100.

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Frieze

In classical architecture, the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.

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Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Highlands and Islands (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

The Highlands and Islands is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament, created in 1999.

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Holyrood, Edinburgh

Holyrood (Halyruid, Taigh an Ròid) is an area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, lying east of the city centre, at the foot of the Royal Mile.

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Hopeman

Hopeman (Houpmin, Hudaman) is a seaside village in Moray, Scotland, it is situated on the coast of the Moray Firth, founded in 1805 to house and re-employ people displaced during the Highland clearances.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Independent politician

An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.

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Inverness

Inverness (Innerness; from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000.

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Inverness Airport

Inverness Airport (Port-adhair Inbhir Nis) is an international airport situated at Dalcross, Scotland, north-east of Inverness.

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Inverness railway station

Inverness railway station serves the Scottish city of Inverness.

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Julian calendar

The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).

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Keith, Moray

Keith (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Chèith, or Cèith Mhaol Rubha (archaic)) is a small town in the Moray council area in north east Scotland. Burghead and Keith, Moray are towns in Moray.

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Kelpie

A kelpie, or water kelpie (Scottish Gaelic: Each-Uisge), is a shape-shifting spirit inhabiting lochs in Irish and Scottish folklore.

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Kinloss, Scotland

Kinloss (Gaelic: Cinn Lois) is a village in Moray, Scotland.

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Lhanbryde

Lhanbryde (Gaelic: Lann Brìghde) is a village that lies east of Elgin in Moray, Scotland.

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Local government in Scotland

Local government in Scotland comprises thirty-two local authorities, commonly referred to as councils.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution.

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Moray

Moray (Moireibh or Moireabh) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland.

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Moray (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Moray (Moray; Moireibh or Moireabh) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering most of the council area of Moray.

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Moray (UK Parliament constituency)

Moray (Moray; Moireibh or Moireabh) was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Moray College

Moray College (Colaiste Mhoireibh) is a further education college based in Elgin, in Moray, northeastern Scotland.

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The Moray & District Welfare Football Association is affiliated to the Scottish Welfare Football Association which is affiliated to the Scottish Football Association.

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Moray Firth

The Moray Firth (An Cuan Moireach, Linne Mhoireibh or Caolas Mhoireibh) is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of the north of Scotland.

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Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey (UK Parliament constituency)

Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.

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National Museum of Scotland

The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland is a museum of Scottish history and culture.

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North Sea oil

North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid petroleum and natural gas, produced from petroleum reservoirs beneath the North Sea.

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Orkneyinga saga

The Orkneyinga saga (Old Norse:; also called the History of the Earls of Orkney and Jarls' Saga) is a narrative of the history of the Orkney and Shetland islands and their relationship with other local polities, particularly Norway and Scotland.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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Peninsula

A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most sides.

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Pictish language

Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.

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Picts

The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.

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Preschool

A preschool (sometimes spelled as pre school or pre-school), also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.

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Privy Council of Scotland

The Privy Council of Scotland (— 1 May 1708) was a body that advised the Scottish monarch.

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A promontory fort is a defensive structure located above a steep cliff, often only connected to the mainland by a small neck of land, thus using the topography to reduce the ramparts needed.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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RAF Kinloss

Royal Air Force Kinloss, or more simply RAF Kinloss, is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north east of Scotland, UK.

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RAF Lossiemouth

Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or more commonly RAF Lossiemouth is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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ScotRail

ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail (Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish Conservatives

The Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Tòraidheach na h-Alba, Scots: Scots Tory an Unionist Pairty, often known simply as the Scottish Conservatives and colloquially as the Scottish Tories) is part of the UK Conservative Party active in Scotland.

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The Scottish Junior Football Association, North Region is one of the two regions of the Scottish Junior Football Association.

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The Scottish Junior Football North Division Two was a third-tier division of the North Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association from 2003.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghead

Also known as Burghead Primary School, Burghead United F.C., Burghead, Moray, Burghhead, Burning of the Clavie, Burning the clavie, Clavie.

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Towns in Moray

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