The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

He had spent the evening at Edinburgh Castle celebrating his second marriage and overseeing a meeting with royal advisors.

They stayed at Edinburgh, and at Taymouth Castle in Perthshire, the home of the Marquess of Breadalbane.

Stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh | St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle

* Edinburgh Castle

In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

Pipers emerging from Edinburgh Castle during the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Lightshow at Edinburgh Castle during the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Running concurrently with the summer festivals, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo occupies the Castle Esplanade every night, with massed pipers and fireworks.

View from the royal apartments of the Stewart monarchs, Edinburgh Castle.

Bruce crowned King of Scots ; modern tableau at Edinburgh Castle

In March 1314, James Douglas captured Roxburgh, and Randolph captured Edinburgh Castle.

Bruce statue at the entrance to Edinburgh Castle

A 1929 statue of Robert the Bruce is set in the wall of Edinburgh Castle at the entrance, along with one of William Wallace.

In 1818, Scott and a small team of military men unearthed the honours from the depths of Edinburgh Castle.

Statue of Wallace at Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle was her dowry.

The sudden death of Mary of Guise in Edinburgh Castle on 10 June 1560 paved the way for an end to hostilities, the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh, and the withdrawal of French and English troops from Scotland.

On 30 April 1571, the controller of Edinburgh Castle, Kirkcaldy, ordered all enemies of the Queen to leave the city.

On 3 July 1996 it was announced in the House of Commons that the Stone would be returned to Scotland, and on 15 November 1996, after a handover ceremony at the border between representatives of the Home Office and of the Scottish Office, it was transported to Edinburgh Castle, arriving on 30 November 1996, where it remains along with the crown jewels of Scotland ( the Honours of Scotland ) in the Crown Room.

The Royal Infirmary is the main Accident & Emergency hospital not just for Edinburgh but also Midlothian and East Lothian, and is the headquarters of NHS Lothian, making it a centric focus for Edinburgh and its hinterland.

In the 20th century the centre of the education system became more focused on Scotland, with the ministry of education partly moving north in 1918 and then finally having its headquarters relocated to Edinburgh in 1939.

It hung in the rafters at the headquarters of the Royal Scottish Archers in Edinburgh.

Its headquarters are in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Well along into his criminal career he was arrested in Scotland and charged with blowing up the safe of the headquarters of the Edinburgh Co-operative Society.

Scottish Ministers decided to transfer SNH's headquarters from Edinburgh to Inverness in 2003 / 04, many staff left at this point as they did not wish to transfer location.

From the Castle Esplanade, the short section of the road entitled Castlehill is dominated by the former Tolbooth Highland St John's Church ( on the south side at the foot of this section ), now the headquarters of the Edinburgh International Festival society-The Hub, and on the north side by the Camera Obscura & World of Illusions, one of the oldest tourist attractions in the city after the Scott Monument.

Today the RSCDS numbers some 20. 000 members all over the world, served from the headquarters in Edinburgh, and the continuous well-being of the Scottish country dance scene is largely due to the efforts of the Society.

' Darien House ', headquarters of the Company of Scotland in Edinburgh ; now demolished.

The new group was named Halifax Bank of Scotland ( HBOS ) with headquarters in Edinburgh, and retained both Halifax and the Bank of Scotland as brand names.

* The Fettesgate scandal in the early 1990s concerned the theft ( and allegedly the subsequent recovery ) of sensitive documents from the Edinburgh headquarters of Lothian and Borders Police.

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body of Scotland, with its headquarters in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh.

It was used by the Red Cross and the St. John Ambulance Brigade as their headquarters during the rest of World War II, before being given to Princess Elizabeth and her husband, The Duke of Edinburgh.

In 1929 the decision was made to move the headquarters operation to Queen Street, Edinburgh, where the Edinburgh station had been based since 1924 following a move from the original 79 George Street premises.

The 2nd Division absorbed Scotland District and its headquarters moved to Craigiehall, near Edinburgh in April 2000.

Citizens is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, with headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Its main base and headquarters is at Leeds Bradford Airport, with smaller bases at Manchester, Belfast International, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Newcastle, East Midlands and Glasgow.

It is the administrative centre for the northern area committee of Shropshire Council, which has its headquarters at Edinburgh House in the centre of Wem.

In World War II, no British Fourth Army actually took the field, but as part of the deception plans Operation Cockade and the later Operation Fortitude North, the Germans were encouraged to believe that a Fourth Army had been established with its headquarters in Edinburgh Castle, and was preparing to invade Norway.

The Edinburgh site is the main garden and the headquarters of the public body, which is led by Regius Keeper, Professor Stephen Blackmore.

The North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization is an international council made up of Canada, the European Union, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, and the United States, with its headquarters in Edinburgh.

The day to day running of the Service is done by the Crown Agent & Chief Executive and a management board who are based in the department's headquarters in Chambers Street, Edinburgh.