Edinburgh[ˈɛdɪnb(ə)ɹə] (schottisch-gälisch Dùn Èideann [tuːn ˈeːtʃən]; deutsch Edinburg; amtlich City of Edinburgh) ist seit dem 15.Jahrhundert die Hauptstadt von Schottland.Seit 1999 ist Edinburgh außerdem Sitz des Schottischen Parlaments. Edinburgh ist mit etwa 525.000 Einwohnern nach Glasgow die zweitgrößte Stadt Schottlands und seit 1996 eine der 32 …

Edinburgh (/ ˈ ɛ d ɪ n b ər ə / (); Scots: Edinburgh [ˈɛdɪnbʌrə]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [ˌt̪un ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth.Edinburgh is Scotland's second-most ...

Coel (Old Welsh: Coil), also called Coel Hen (Coel the Old) and King Cole, is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages.Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen, a c. 4th-century leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in Yr Hen Ogledd (the Old North), the Brittonic-speaking part of what is now northern England and …

Yr Hen Ogledd (Welsh pronunciation: [ər ˌheːn ˈɔɡlɛð]), in English the Old North, is the historical region which is now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands that was inhabited by the Brittonic people of sub-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages.Its population spoke a variety of the Brittonic language known as Cumbric which is closely related to, if not a dialect of Old ...

Edimburgo (em inglês: Edinburgh; em gaélico escocês: Dùn Èideann) é uma cidade no Reino Unido com poderes próprios, situada na margem sul do estuário do rio Forth (Firth of Forth). É sede do parlamento escocês desde 1999.Segundo o census do ano 2011, a cidade conta com 495 360 habitantes, sendo a segunda cidade mais populosa da Escócia, depois de Glasgow, e …

語源學 “Edin”（愛丁）一詞很可能來自最早期當地居民所說的布立吞語或者是布立吞語的變體，這些居民出現在鐵器時代，羅馬人叫他們“Votadini”，即後來的高多汀。 。“Edin”可能即是来自高多汀人的古威爾士語史詩《高多汀》中提到的一個叫做“Eidyn”的地方。 ...

The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland.Outside of these states, it has official status in Malta, the Crown dependencies (the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey), Gibraltar and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (two of the British Overseas Territories).In the Kingdom of the Netherlands, English has an …

The characteristic of cynocephaly, or cynocephalus (/ s aɪ n oʊ ˈ s ɛ f ə l i /), having the head of a dog—or of a jackal—is a widely attested mythical phenomenon existing in many different forms and contexts. The literal meaning of "cynocephaly" is "dog-headed"; however, that this refers to a human body with a dog head is implied.

Wann der Castle Rock zum ersten Mal mit einer Burg bebaut wurde, ist nicht sicher zu datieren. In dem in walisischer Sprache verfassten Epos Y Gododdin wird im Zusammenhang mit Kampfhandlungen, die vermutlich im 7. Jahrhundert stattgefunden haben, Din Eidyn erwähnt, was übersetzt so viel wie Burg des Eidyn bedeutet. Dementsprechend wird allgemein davon …

Edimburgo (in inglese e scots Edinburgh; IPA [ˈɛdɪnbʌrə] o [ˈɛdɪnbrə]; in gaelico scozzese Dùn Èideann) è una città del Regno Unito.Seconda città più popolosa della Scozia, della quale è capitale, è anche la settima città più popolosa del Regno Unito con 464 990 abitanti; ne conta 492 680 nell'area dell'omonima autorità locale e 1 339 380 se viene considerata l'intera area ...