Comrie

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Comrie


Comrie (Gaelic: Cuimridh) is a small town and parish towards the western end of the Strathearn district of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, seven miles west of Crieff.

Comrie sits at the confluence of three rivers. The Ruchill and the Lednock are both tributaries of the Earn, which itself eventually feeds into the Tay. The name Comrie is of Gaelic origin and means 'a place where rivers meet'. Due to its situation on an ancient fault line, giving rise to frequent small earthquakes, Comrie has the nickname "Shaky Toun". These tremors are, however, so minor they almost never cause damage or injury. Comrie became the site of one of the world's first seismometers in 1840.

Comrie's early prosperity was from weaving. This was mostly done as piecework in people's own homes. Comrie was also important as a droving town. Cattle destined for the markets of the Scottish Lowlands and ultimately England would be driven south from their grazing areas in the Highlands. River crossings, such as at Comrie, were important staging posts on the way south.

The White Church, the former parish kirk, is Comrie's most striking building, with its prominent tower and spire situated on the roadside of the ancient churchyard at the heart of the village. This is an early Christian site, dedicated to the obscure early saint Kessog (or Mokessog), who may have flourished in the 8th century. Comrie is also graced by a little-known Charles Rennie Mackintosh building, a shop with first floor corner turret in a version of the Scottish vernacular style in the main street (not visible in the above illustration).

Much of the land around Comrie was owned by the Drummond family, Earls of Perth, latterly Earls of Ancaster, whose main seat was Drummond Castle, south of Crieff. Another branch of the Drummonds owned Drummondernoch, to the west of the town. Here also lies Aberuchill Castle, originally a Campbell seat.

To the south of the town is a military camp at Cultybraggan. During World War II this housed Italian and later German prisoners of war. This was a 'black' camp (ie most of its inmates were ardent Nazis), which became infamous after anti-Nazi German POW Wolfgang Rosterg was lynched there by fellow inmates (who were hanged after the war for the act).

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Official status
Official language of: Scotland
Regulated by: Bòrd na Gàidhlig
Language codes
ISO 639-1: gd
ISO 639-2: gla
ISO 639-3: gla

Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig
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Strathearn or Strath Earn, (Scottish Gaelic, Srath Èireann) is the strath (valley) of the River Earn. It extends from Loch Earn in Perth and Kinross to the Firth of Tay, in Scotland.
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Perth and Kinross
Peairt agus Ceann Rois

Location

Geography

Area Ranked 5th
 - Total 5,286 km²
 - % Water ?
Admin HQ Perth
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ONS code 00RB
Demographics

Population Ranked 14th
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Motto
Nemo me impune lacessit   (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
"Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh"   
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Crieff
Gaelic - Craoibh
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River Earn (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Eireann) in Scotland leaves Loch Earn at St Fillans and runs east through Strathearn, then east and south, joining the River Tay near Abernethy. The Earn is about 46 miles long.
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Origin Loch Tay
Mouth Firth of Tay
Basin countries Scotland
Length 120 miles (193 km)

Avg. discharge 170 m³/s
Basin area 4970 km² The Tay
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Official status
Official language of: Scotland
Regulated by: Bòrd na Gàidhlig
Language codes
ISO 639-1: gd
ISO 639-2: gla
ISO 639-3: gla

Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig
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Seismometers (in Greek seismos = earthquake and metero = measure) are used by seismologists to measure and record the size and force of seismic waves. By studying seismic waves, geologists can map the interior of the Earth, and measure and locate earthquakes and
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Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. This cloth can be plain (in one color or a simple pattern), or it can be woven in decorative or artistic designs,
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Droving is the practice of moving livestock over large distances by walking them "on the hoof".

While droving stock to market, often with the aid of dogs, has a very long history in the old world, the settlement of new land in Australia and North America led to drives of
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The Scottish Lowlands (a' Ghalldachd, meaning roughly 'the non-Gaelic region', in Gaelic), although not officially a geographical area of the country, in normal usage is generally meant to include those parts of Scotland not referred to as the Highlands (or
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Scottish Highlands (A' Ghàidhealtachd in Gaelic) include the rugged and mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands.
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Saint Kessog was an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire. Kessog was Scotland's patron saint before Saint Andrew, and his name was used as a battle cry by the Scots.
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The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

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During this century the Middle East, the coast of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula comes rapidly under Islamic Arab domination.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 – December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist who was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland.
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Clan Drummond is a Scottish clan deriving its name from the parish of Drymen, in what was western Stirlingshire. Legend gives Maurice of Hungary as founder of the clan.

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The title Earl of Perth was created in 1605 for James, Lord Drummond.

"Maurice, son of George, a younger son of King Andrew I of Hungary, commanded the ship in which Edgar Atheling, the rightful heir to the crown of England, had embarked, together with his mother
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Drummond Castle is a little south of Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. The oldest part is a tower-house built over several years by Sir John Drummond of Cargill, following the issue of a royal warrant by King James III in 1491.
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Crieff
Gaelic - Craoibh
Scots - Crieff


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Campbell may refer to:

People

  • See Campbell (surname)

Places

Australia

  • Campbell, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra, Australia

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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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