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Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, located on the east coast in the southeast of the country. Humans have inhabited the area since at least the Bronze Age. Edinburgh is well known for its many annual festivals held in August, including the largest performing arts festival in the world. The city is also home to many museums, libraries, and universities, with a population of over 100,000 students. Famous past residents of Edinburgh include Alexander Graham Bell, J.K. Rowling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Walter Scott.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, located on the east coast in the southeast of the country. Humans have inhabited the area since at least the Bronze Age. Edinburgh is well known for its many annual festivals held in August, including the largest performing arts festival in the world. The city is also home to many museums, libraries, and universities, with a population of over 100,000 students. Famous past residents of Edinburgh include Alexander Graham Bell, J.K. Rowling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Walter Scott.

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Edinburgh Geographic location 1) Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland.

. It is the second largest city in Scotland and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. Located in the south-east of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast of the Central Belt, along the Firth of Forth, near the North Sea. History 2) Humans have settled the Edinburgh area from at least the Bronze Age, leaving traces of primitive stone settlements at Holyrood, Craiglockhart Hill and the Pentland Hills for example. 1) The city's name is most likely Celtic (P-Celtic, Brythonic) in origin, possibly Cumbric or a variation of it. Events and attracts 2) Edinburgh is well-known for the annual Edinburgh Festival, a collection of official and independent festivals held annually over about four weeks from early August. 1) The most famous of these events are the Edinburgh Fringe (the largest performing arts festival in the world), the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Culture
2) The Edinburgh International Science Festival is held annually in April and is

one of the most popular science festivals in the world. 1) The Braid Hills and Blackford Hill are a series of small summits to the south west of the city commanding expansive views over the urban area of Edinburgh and northwards to the Forth.

Museums and libraries


2) Edinburgh is home to a large number of museums and libraries, many of which

are national institutions. These include the Museum of Scotland, the Royal Museum, the National Library of Scotland, National War Museum of Scotland, the Museum of Edinburgh, Museum of Childhood and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

1) Edinburgh has two repertory cinemas, the Edinburgh Filmhouse, and the

Cameo, and the independent Dominion Cinema, as well as the usual range of multiplexes. 2) Edinburgh is home to Scotland's five National Galleries as well as numerous smaller galleries. The national collection is housed in the National Gallery of Scotland, located on the Mound, and now linked to the Royal Scottish Academy, which holds regular major exhibitions of painting. Education
1) There are four universities in Edinburgh with over 100,000 students studying in the

city.
2) There are 18 nursery, 94 primary and 23 secondary schools in Edinburgh administered

by the city council.[77].

Personalities 1) Alexander Graham Bell, pioneer of telephony 2) Tony Blair, politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1997-2007 1) Sean Connery, actor 2) Arthur Conan Doyle, writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes 1) David Hume, philosopher and historian 2) James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist 1) John Napier, mathematician 2) Joanne Kathleen Rowling, writer, author of Harry Potter, wrote his first novel in a cafe in Edinburgh 1) Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), novelist 2) Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, wrote about the city before moving to Samoa

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