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Encyclopedia Britannica



FORTEVIOT

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 679 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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