After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.

* Aigas Field Centre Beaver Project – history of a pair of European beavers released into a large enclosure in the Highlands of Scotland.

Stories of banshees were also prevalent in the West Highlands of Scotland.

Roughly a third of the clergy, mainly from the North and Highlands, formed the separate Free Church of Scotland.

* Gregory, D. " History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland " ( 1881 ).

* Carmichael, Alexander ( 1992 ) Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations ( with illustrative notes on wards, rites, and customs dying and obsolete / orally collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland ) Hudson, NY, Lindisfarne Press, ISBN 0-940262-50-9

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In 1760 Macpherson published the English-language text Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Gaelic or Erse language, and later that year obtained further manuscripts.

Catholicism was the majority religion in various pockets, notably in parts of Lancashire and Cumbria, and, in Scotland, in parts of the Highlands and the southern Hebrides ( i. e. South Uist, Benbecula, Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay ).

Scotland was traditionally divided into four regions: The Highlands, Lowland, Islay, and Campbeltown.

Speyside, encompassing the Spey river valley in north-east Scotland, once considered part of the Highlands, has almost half of the total number of distilleries in Scotland within its geographic boundaries ; consequently it is officially recognized as a region unto itself.

* Hunter, James ( 2000 ) Last of the Free: A History of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

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Deerstalking in the Highlands of Scotland.

* The deer plays a large role in Scottish Gaelic poetry ( fiadh ) of the Highlands of Scotland, where it is seen as a noble creature, and ofter used as a flattering simile or metaphor when used in comparison to a famous warrior, hero or chief.

Most notably ( and again William Pulteney was influential ), in 1801 Telford devised a master plan to improve communications in the Highlands of Scotland, a massive project that was to last some 20 years.

This broken stone is returned to Westminster Abbey, while the real stone is hidden in plain sight as a conveniently placed seat on the Royal Highlands Golf Course in Scotland.

In 1899, he received the highest award of the Geological Society of London, the Wollaston Medal, in recognition of his outstanding work in the Southern Uplands, and Northwest Highlands of Scotland.

Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the world where Scottish Highlanders migrated.

Despite its unique flavor square sausage is rarely seen outside Scotland and in fact is still fairly uncommon in the Highlands.

In parts of north west Scotland ( Highlands and Islands ), a " township " is a crofting settlement. In the Scottish Highlands generally the term may describe a very small agrarian community, usually a local rural or semi-rural government within a county.

The town is located in the former county of Perthshire and is a popular tourist stop to and from the Highlands.

Stanthorpe and the surrounding Granite Belt and Granite Highlands area of South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales are the centre of a booming winery and national parks tourist destination.

The village has a reasonably large tourist trade and boasts a hotel ( The Highlands ) and a variety of lively pubs and the locally famous ' Limelight ' night club which is one of the largest entertainment venues in the county.

Today Chéticamp, which is at the entrance of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, is a popular tourist spot.

The Daylesford Spa Country Railway ( which is operated by the Central Highlands Tourist Railway ) is a volunteer-operated broad gauge tourist railway located in Victoria, Australia.

Several popular tourist destinations such as Royal Belum, Cameron Highlands, Genting Highlands and Fraser's Hill are located on the range.

In the next 30 years, Lim continued to develop and expand Genting Highlands beyond its original idea of a hotel with basic tourist facilities.

As of now, Genting Highlands is one of the most successful Casino resorts in the world and is one of the primary tourist attractions in Malaysia.

As a result, the bridge is heavily used by tourist traffic from Glasgow International Airport bound for Loch Lomond and the north west Highlands.

Aviemore railway station serves the town and tourist resort of Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland.

The Lusatian Highlands is a famous tourist region shown in several movies.

* Speak Up For Broadband Highlands & Islands of Scotland Regional development board ( 2003 ), TV advert

In September 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of the Highlands and Islands.

During the 1986-87 school year, Northern Highlands Regional High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.

Maryann Woods-Murphy, a Northern Highlands Regional High School Spanish teacher, was awarded the state of New Jersey's highest honor given to a teacher: she was named the New Jersey Teacher of the Year.

University status was awarded by the Privy Council in February 2011, and UHI became the University of the Highlands and Islands.

In 2002, proposals to restore Castle Tioram in the West Highlands, by putting a roof back on, were blocked by Historic Scotland, which favoured stabilising it as a ruin.

* Repression of Montagnards: Conflicts over Land and Religion in Vietnam's Central Highlands by Human Rights Watch April 2002

Beyond the privatisation of the calibration service in 1996, the Civil Aviation Authority operated two HS 125-700 aircraft successively up until 2002, providing conversion and continuation flying for professional CAA pilots, conducting radar trials for National Air Traffic Services ( NATS ) and serving the CAA, NATS and Highlands & Islands Airports Ltd ( HIAL ) in the communications role.

* Repression of Montagnards: Conflicts over Land and Religion in Vietnam's Central Highlands by Human Rights Watch April 2002

In 2002, the organisation changed its trading name from the Central Highlands Tourist Railway to the Daylesford Spa Country Railway.

* 2002 Alladale from Hymn of the Highlands ( Flugel, Horn and Baritone Trio ) für Brass-Band

* 2002 / 2003 Suite from " Hymn of the Highlands "

* 2002 Flowerdale from " Hymn of the Highlands " ( Soprano Cornet Solo ) for Brass-Band

* 2002 Lairg Muir from " Hymn of the Highlands " ( Cornet Solo ) for Brass-Band

* 2002 Strathcarron from " Hymn of the Highlands " ( Sword Dance ) for Brass-Band

* 2002 Summer Isles from " Hymn of the Highlands " ( Euphonium Solo ) for Brass-Band

Valley of the Giants is a Canadian post-rock supergroup formed in Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada, in early 2002.

Since 2002, the Highland Bowl has been the crown jewel of Aspen Highlands.

The Northern Highlands ' field hockey team won the 2008 Bergen County Championship, its first since 2002.

* In 2002, Scoregolf rated Highlands Links the best golf course in all of Canada.

Savannah-Chanelle's Garys ' 2002 Pinot Noir, from the Santa Lucia Highlands, was named " Best Pinot Noir in California " by the 2005 California State Fair.

Since 2002, the Highlands Campus has been home to the SFSC Museum of Florida Art and Culture ( MOFAC ), which is open October through May, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, 12: 30-4: 30 p. m. SFSC MOFAC provides an exhibition venue for contemporary Florida regional artists and preserves Florida ’ s history and heritage through its art.