Mar

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Mar is a historic earldom and region in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, long associated with one of the oldest Scottish peerage titles, the Earldom of Mar.

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Surface form Occurrences
Earldom of Mar 0

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Scottish peerage title
Scottish peerage title
earldom
earldom
historic region
associatedWithEvent Braemar Gathering NERFINISHED
associatedWithMonarch Scottish monarchy NERFINISHED
associatedWithRegion Mar NERFINISHED
associatedWithTitle Earldom of Mar NERFINISHED
borders Buchan NERFINISHED
Marr (Angus) region
containsArea Cairngorms NERFINISHED
Royal Deeside NERFINISHED
containsSettlement Aboyne NERFINISHED
Ballater NERFINISHED
Banchory NERFINISHED
Braemar NERFINISHED
Kincardine O'Neil NERFINISHED
country Scotland
Scotland
hasHistoricFunction feudal earldom
medieval provincial lordship
hasNotableStructure Balmoral Castle NERFINISHED
Braemar Castle NERFINISHED
Crathes Castle NERFINISHED
Drum Castle NERFINISHED
Kildrummy Castle NERFINISHED
hasPart Lower Mar NERFINISHED
Upper Mar NERFINISHED
historicalCountyAreaOf Aberdeenshire GENERATED
historicallyRuledBy Earls of Mar NERFINISHED
historicalProvinceOf Alba NERFINISHED
historicalRegionOf Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED
knownFor Deeside tourism
Highland landscapes
Royal connections
languageHistoricallySpoken Scots
Scottish Gaelic
locatedIn Aberdeenshire
northeast Scotland
oneOf oldest earldoms in Scotland
oldest titles in the Scottish peerage
partOf Grampian region NERFINISHED
peerage Peerage of Scotland
terrainFeature Grampian Mountains NERFINISHED
River valleys
moorland
traditionalDistrictOf Aberdeenshire NERFINISHED
traversedBy River Dee NERFINISHED

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