I have to do homework on Edinburgh, it needs to include all these things:
>Kind Of Place
>Situation
>Population
>Important Buildings
>People
>What it was like in the past
Can anybody help me by writing a text including these subjects? I would appreciate if u made it simple as i have to translate it into spanish!
Thanks I think you would benefit more from doing your own research, all the information is easily accessible using
http://www.google.co.uk/
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&...
http://uk.ask.com/?o=312&l=dir
http://www.dogpile.co.uk/
and you will find it much simpler translating your own words into Spanish than someone else's. Go to this website to find all you need to know
http://www.answers.com/edinburgh?cat=tra...
Edinburgh
city (1991 pop. 433,200) and council area, royal burgh, capital of Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. Leith, part of the city since 1920, is Edinburgh's port. The city is famous in Scottish legend and literature as Dunedin or 鈥淎uld Reekie.鈥?It is divided into two sections. The Old Town, on the slope of Castle Rock, dates from the 11th cent. and contains most of the city's historic sites; the New Town spread to the north in the late 18th cent.
Economy
Edinburgh is Scotland's administrative, financial, legal, medical, and insurance center, and the city has become an important nuclear and electronics research center. The port imports grain, fertilizer, petroleum, minerals, wood pulp, cement, fruit, and vegetables. Edinburgh is a large brewing center, has a thriving publishing industry, and produces great quantities of high-grade paper. There are metalworks and rubber and engineering works. Other industries are distilling; the manufacture of glassware, drugs, and chemicals; and shipbuilding. The Waverly railway station is the second largest in Great Britain. Tourism is of major importance.
Points of Interest
The Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, held every summer since 1947, and its larger, more eclectic and offbeat offshoot, the Edinburgh Fringe, are world famous; the festival's 1,900-seat theater opened in 1994. Other notable features are the new Parliament Building; National War Memorial; the collections of the Royal Scottish Academy, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Museum, and the Museum of Scotland; the National Library; Princes St.; the Royal Botanic Gardens; the house of the Protestant reformer John Knox; the church of St. Giles, dating from the 12th cent.; the Real Mary King's Close, narrow streets and buildings that were buried underground in the 18th cent.; and the site of the famous prison, Old Tolbooth, which figures in Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian. The Univ. of Edinburgh was founded under James VI in 1583; other institutions of higher education include Heriot-Watt Univ. and Napier Univ.
History
Edinburgh's history may be said to have begun when Malcolm III of Scotland erected a castle there in the late 11th cent. and his wife built the Chapel of St. Margaret, the city's oldest surviving building. A town grew up around the castle and was chartered in 1329 by Robert I. It grew steadily despite repeated sacking and burning by the English in the border wars and became the capital city of Scotland in 1437.
James IV was the first monarch to make Edinburgh his regular seat. The rooms of Mary Queen of Scots are preserved in Holyrood Palace. The city lost importance when James VI became king of England in 1603 and commerce and society followed the court to London. After the Act of Union with England in 1707 dissolved the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh retained the Supreme Courts of Law, which now meet in the old Parliament House.
Edinburgh blossomed as a cultural center in the 18th and 19th cent. around the figures of the philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith and the writers Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, added to the city's literary reputation. Following voter approval and parliamentary passage of a devolution act, the Scottish Parliament met for the first time in nearly 300 years in Edinburgh in 1999. The new parliament building was completed in 2004.
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History 1450-1789: Edinburgh
"Edinburgh, sir, is the metropolis of this ancient kingdom, the seat of law, the rendezvous of taste, and winter quarters of all our nobility who cannot afford to live in London." In these terms a newspaper correspondent of 1767 summarized Scotland's capital. To this list could be added the best educational facilities in Scotland鈥攑erhaps in Britain鈥攊ncluding a fine university (founded in 1582) and a flourishing printing industry. Edinburgh had long been central to Scottish life. It had been the seat of the royal court until James VI (James I of England) moved to London in 1603, and the Scottish Parliament sat there until the Union of 1707 saw it subsumed into that of Westminster. The popular (as distinct from the political) Reformation in Scotland began with Edinburgh merchants and professionals in the 1560s. Other Scottish revolutions (1637鈥?638 and 1689鈥?690) were made in the capital. Scotland's cultural life concentrated there and much intellectual change originated there. Eighteenth-century Edinburgh was the cradle of the Scottish Enlightenment, a true "hotbed of genius" and a cultural hub of European significance.
Given a charter in the twelfth century, Edinburgh was a "royal burgh" with its own constitution or "set" and extensive trading privileges. At the time of the Reformation, Edinburgh and its suburbs or satellites had roughly 15鈥?8,000 inhabitants; by the 1660s it contained 25鈥?0,000 people and perhaps 45,000 by 1700: easily Scotland's largest city and the second largest in Britain after London at these dates. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Edinburgh was a compact settlement, perched on a narrow ridge leading east from the rock on which stood Edinburgh's medieval castle. One main street ran for approximately 1,300 meters down this ridge from the castle to the royal palace of Holyrood. Nearly 300 steep and narrow "closes" and "wynds" (alleys) issued off this street, now known as the "Royal Mile." Growing steadily from the fifteenth century, Edinburgh expanded rapidly in area and population from the mid-eighteenth century. Starting on the south side of the city, new neoclassical housing developments began in the 1750s, reaching their apogee in the celebrated northern "New Town" streets of the 1760s and beyond. By 1800 the expanded conurbation contained more than 80,000 people.
Edinburgh was easily the richest town in Scotland, and far more prosperous than its relative size would suggest. It was already Scotland's first town in economic terms by the early sixteenth century, a position it consolidated in the following 200 years. Edinburgh paid a third of the taxation raised from all the royal burghs of Scotland in the later seventeenth century and an equal share of total excise revenue in the 1720s鈥攖his from a city with a 4 to 5 percent share of the population. Through its port at Leith, Edinburgh conducted an extensive coastal and foreign trade with the rest of Britain and the North Sea, Baltic, and Atlantic coastlines. Its occupational structure was characterized by unusually large proportions of professionals (principally lawyers, but also medical men and educators) and of servants, testifying to its wealth and economic orientation. Among the rest of the seventeenth-century population, more than half were engaged in making textiles, clothes, or leather goods, about a quarter in building trades, and a sixth in food and drink. Edinburgh's less well documented suburbs may have been more concerned with manufacturing, but the capital was Scotland's principal service center. It was Scotland's undeniable economic leader until the late eighteenth century, when Glasgow outstripped it in both size and commercial dynamism, if not in social and cultural eminence.
Bibliography
Houston, R. A. Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660鈥?760. Oxford and New York, 1994. The only comprehensive study of the city for the early modern period.
Lynch, Michael. Edinburgh and the Reformation. Edinburgh, 1979. Deals with more than just religion.
Youngson, A. J. The Making of Classical Edinburgh 1750鈥?840. Edinburgh, 1966. Reprinted many times, this is a classic study of the development of the "New Town."
鈥擱. A. HOUSTON
Geography: Edinburgh
(ed-n-buh-ruh)
Capital of Scotland, located in the Lothian region in the southeastern part; Scotland's banking and administrative center.
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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Dialing Code: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The country code is: 44
The city code is: 131
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Edinburgh
Gaelic - D霉n 脠ideann
Scots - EdinburghUNIQ72030f8f7534e7cd-ref-4566c2...
Auld Reekie, Athens of the North
Area[1] sq mi ({{formatnum:259 km虏}})
Population 448,624 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference NT275735
- London 332 miles (535 km) SSE
Council area City of Edinburgh
Lieutenancy area Edinburgh
Constituent country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town EDINBURGH
Postcode district EH1-EH13; EH14 (part); EH15-EH17
Dialling code 0131
Vehicle code SK-SO
Police Lothian and Borders
Fire Lothian and Borders
Ambulance Scottish
Scottish Parliament Edinburgh Central
Edinburgh East and Mu Hi, I know how difficult it is to translate into different languages so you do need quite simple stuff.
So here we go, I lived in Edinburgh for 21 years and know simple stuff about it.
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland . It is very old and used to be the place where the Scottish royal family lived.
It is in the lowlands of Scotland, next to the river, the firth of forth. IT is surrounded by many towns and villages and lots of countryside. There are many areas of natural beauty around Edinburgh.
There is a population of about 1 million people, most of whom are Scottish, but many people are from England and other countries as it is a popular city to live in.
The most important building in Edinburgh is Edinburgh castle (la castilla de edinbourgo). Also Hollyrood palace, where the queen stays when she visits Edinburgh.
The poeple of Edinburgh are very friendly and talkative. It is very easy to talk to people in coffee shops and pubs.
In the past Edinburgh was dirty, dark and relativly small. The city only reached along one street where people lived along the royal mile in tall tenaments and the royal family lived in the castle at the top of the royal mile.
Hope that helps, think I could translate that into Spanish (and I'm studying for GCSE at the moment so don't think it's too difficult either) |
