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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 679 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORTEVIOT  , a

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village and
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parish of
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Perthshire,
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Scotland, on the
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Water of May, a right-
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hand affluent of the
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Earn, 64 m . S.W. of
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Perth . Pop. of parish (1901) 562 . It is a
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place of remote antiquity, having been a
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capital of the Picts, when the.
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district was known as Fortrenn, and afterwards of the Scots . The
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army led by
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Edward
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Baliol camped here before the
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battle of Dupplin (1332), in which the
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regent, Donald,
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earl of
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Mar, was slain along with 13,000 out of 30,000 men . The parish of Findo-Gask adjoining it on the N.W. contains remains of a
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Roman road, station and outpost, besides the " auld hoose " of Gask in which the Baroness
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Nairne was
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born, and which forms the theme of one of her most popular songs . The new
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house in which she died
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dates from 18o1 .

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