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Places
Places term Scope note Archival description count People & Organisations count
Aberdeen (Scotland)
  • city and port on the North Sea in northeastern Scotland constituting an administrative area called Aberdeen City and surrounded on three sides by Aberdeenshire.
  • City and historic royal burgh (town) astride the Rivers Dee and Don on Scotland’s North Sea coast. Aberdeen is a busy seaport, the British centre of the North Sea oil industry, and the commercial capital of northeastern Scotland.
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Aberdeenshire (Scotland) (1)
  • council area and historic county of eastern Scotland. It projects shoulderlike eastward into the North Sea and encompasses coastal lowlands in the north and east and part of the Grampian Mountains in the west.
  • The council area and the historic county occupy somewhat different areas. The city of Aberdeen is part of the historic county of Aberdeenshire but constitutes an independent council area that forms an enclave within the council area of Aberdeenshire. The rest of the historic county lies within the council area of the same name, which also incorporates the entire historic county of Kincardineshire and the northeastern portion of the historic county of Banffshire.
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Afghanistan
  • multi-ethnic landlocked country located in the heart of south-central Asia.
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Africa (9)
  • continent of the eastern hemisphere straddling the Equator, separated from Europe by the Strait of Gibraltar, and adjoining Asia at the Sinai Peninsula area 11,677,239 square miles (30,244,049 square kilometers)
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Andorra
  • small, landlocked, independent European coprincipality situated among the southern peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains and bounded by France to the north and east and by Spain to the south and west. It is one of the smallest states in Europe. The capital is Andorra la Vella.
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Angola
  • A country in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic coast south of the mouth of the Congo River; until 1975 a dependency of Portugal
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Angus (Scotland) (1)
  • council area and historic county in eastern Scotland, bounded on the east by the North Sea and on the south by the Firth of Tay.
  • The council area lies entirely within the historic county of Angus, which also includes the city of Dundee and a small area south of Coupar Angus in the Perth and Kinross council area. The chief city of the county is Dundee, which constitutes a separate council area.
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Ankole (Uganda)

Use for: Nkore

  • Ankole (Nkore before the colonial era) was a traditional Bantu kingdom in Uganda and lasted from the 15th century until 1967. The kingdom was located in south-western Uganda, east of Lake Edward, bordering Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Argyllshire (Scotland - Historic County)

Use for: Argyllshire

  • A historic county in western Scotland. Argyllshire lies mainly within the Argyll and Bute council area, but northern Argyllshire extends as far as Lochs Shiel, Eil, and Leven in southern Highland council area.
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Ascension Island

Use for: Ascension

  • island in the South Atlantic Ocean, part of the British overseas territory of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
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