Edinburgh
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Duke of. Philip.
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a city in and the capital of Scotland, in the SE part: administrative center of the Lothian region.
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the capital of Scotland and seat of the Scottish Parliament (from 1999), in City of Edinburgh council area on the S side of the Firth of Forth: became the capital in the 15th century; castle; three universities (including University of Edinburgh, 1583); commercial and cultural centre, noted for its annual festival. Pop: 430 082 (2001)
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a council area in central Scotland, created from part of Lothian region in 1996. Pop: 448 370 (2003 est). Area: 262 sq km (101 sq miles)
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The University of Edinburgh, which was founded in the sixteenth century, is noted for its faculties of divinity, law, medicine, music, and the arts.
As a cultural center, Edinburgh was especially prominent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith, the authors Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, and the scientist James Hutton were active.
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Somehow he has de-dissolved, and we find him working in an Edinburgh pub, looking like an ordinary Englishman, rather than a mechanical man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Dr Jane Sehgal is a GP and health coach based in Edinburgh who supports people who are paying privately for GLP-1s.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
He earned a law degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2015, followed by a master’s in law and finance from Oxford.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Campbell was a pupil at Edinburgh Academy between 1966 and 1978, from when he was aged five until he was 17.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
On Monday her cool boyfriend will land in Cheltenham in his black Porsche, she'll just hop in, and off they'll zoom to Edinburgh.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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