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Loch is a word meaning "lake" or "sea inlet" in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, subsequently borrowed into English. In Irish contexts, it often appears in the anglicized form "lough". A small loch is somet
View of Ben Lomond across Loch Lomond
Looking down Loch Long, a long sea loch
Loch Lubnaig, a reservoir
The Lake of Menteith (Loch Innis MoCholmaig)
Scotland
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Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the N
Loch
…called "sea lochs" or "sea loughs". Loch, as a name for a body of water, is Insular Celtic in origin and is applied to most lakes and many sea inlets in Scotland. Many of the loughs in Northern England have also previously been called "meres" (a Northern English dialect word for "lake", and an archaic Standard…
Skara Brae, Europe's most complete Neolithic village, occupied from roughly 3180 BC – 2500 BC
Callanish Stones, erected in the late Neolithic era
James V of Scotland at the Court of Session in 1532, at Parliament House, Edinburgh, the Parliament of Scotland until 1707
Depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, fought during the First War of Scottish Independence, 1297