Dundee

Dundee

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1st Viscount, title of John Graham of Claverhouse. ?1649-- 89, Scottish Jacobite leader, who died from his wounds after winning the battle of Killiecrankie

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Dundee

²

1. a port in E Scotland, in City of Dundee council area, on the Firth of Tay: centre of the former British jute industry; university (1967). Pop.: 154 674 (2001)

2. City of. a council area in E Scotland. Pop.: 143 090 (2003 est.). Area: 65 sq. km (25 sq. miles)

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Dundee

 

a city and port in Scotland, on the coast of the North Sea, in the estuary of the Firth of Tay. Population, 184,400 (1968). It has a railway junction and a bridge over the bay. There is a jute industry. Electrical engineering, textiles, and other branches of machine building are well developed, as well as the production of office equipment, paper, linoleum, watches, and food products (marmalade and flour). There is a university college.

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