Edinburgh

[Zipporah Schumaker]

Gaelic Name, Dùn Èideann,[Dunedin]
Also Known as [Auld Reekie] and The Athens of the North
Population 450,000 (approx)
Capital City of Scotland since [1437].
The city is dominated by a huge castle built upon an extinct Volcano and the history of Edinburgh is woven around this grand structure.Originally a Celtic Hillfort inhabited by the Votadini tribe called it Din [Eidyn] later anglicised into the present name.Edinburgh can be split in to two areas,The old town which grew around the castle and slopes and the New town largely built in the 18th century.Holyrood Palace is found at the other end of the Royal Milewhich leads down a slope from the castle.This Palace has been a royal residence of Scottish [Monarchs] since the 15th century,The present Queen of Great Britain also uses it.
Edinburgh is home to the Scottish Parliament(Restored in 1999)

[Lanell]

The capital of Scotland, on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth; population 449,100 (est. 2009). The city grew up around the 11th-century castle built by Malcolm III on a rocky ridge that dominates the landscape.