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about Dundee
Dundee (Dùn
Dèagh in Gaelic) is Scotland's
fourth largest city, population 154,674 (2001),
situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay.
The city is built on the basalt plug of an extinct
volcano (174 m (571 feet), now called Dundee
Law. During the Iron Age it was the site
of a Pictish settlement. In his History of the
Scottish People (1527), Hector Boece suggests
that the Pictish name was Alec-tum, meaning 'a
handsome place'. (This name was still in use,
alongside the modern name, as late as 1607, according
to William Camden.)
Traditionally, Dundee lay within the county of
Angus. From 1975, the city was the administrative
centre of Tayside Region (and was itself administered
as one of the districts of that region). Since
the abolition of two-tier local government in
Scotland in 1996, the City of Dundee (incorporating
the town of Broughty Ferry) has been a self-contained
Unitary Authority making it Scotland's smallest
local government subdivision.
Dundee celebrated its 800th anniversary in 1991,
and is known as the 'City of Discovery'
in honor of the RRS Discovery, Robert Falcon Scott's
famous Antarctic exploration vessel.
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