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The term highland or uplands is used to denote any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) tends to refer to ranges of hills, typically up to 500-600 m. Highland (or highlands) is usually reserved for ranges of low mountains.
Probably the most known highlands in the anglophone world are the Scottish Highlands in the United Kingdom, the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. The Highland council area is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and Britain's largest local government area.
Many countries have areas that are officially or unofficially referred to as highlands. Other than Scotland, these include parts Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Syria, Cantabria and Nova Scotia (the latter being Latin for 'New Scotland' due to its resemblance to the country).
Synonymous terms used in other countries include high country, used in New Zealand, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Southern Queensland in Australia, and parts of the United States (notably Western North Carolina), and highveld, used in South Africa.
The Highlands (Scottish Gaelic: A' Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels"; Scots: the Hielands) are a historic region of Scotland. The region became culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A' Ghàidhealtachd literally means "the place of the Gaels" and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands.
The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. Before the 19th century the Highlands was home to a much larger population, but due to a combination of factors including the outlawing of the traditional Highland way of life following the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the infamous Highland Clearances, and mass migration to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution, the area is now one of the most sparsely populated in Europe. At 9.1 per km2 in 2012, the population density in the Highlands and Islands is less than 1/7th of Scotland's as a whole, comparable with that of Bolivia, Chad and Russia.
Highland is a broad term for an elevated mountainous plateau.
Highland, Highlands, or The Highlands, may also refer to:
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Originally recorded on VHS in 1992, this File is based on a DVD recording and several Hours "tuning". Sad to say that my old Videotape didn't got better with the Years :)The First part of the Video is a re-edit of later Scenes from the Video. Unfortunately i missed the first Minute of the Video back in 92. Please comment...
In Scotland, legends of Bonnie Prince Charlie swirl with pipers and kilts around crumbling castles. We remember Highland massacres in Glencoe, and try tossing a caber (log) at a Scottish clan gathering in Culloden. We play hide-and-seek with the Loch Ness Monster, tour a whisky distillery in Oban, and take a ferry to sacred Iona. © 2000 Rick Steves' Europe
Think you know the Highlands? This region in Scotland is not just breathtaking beaches and the Loch Ness Monster - it is also home to the Mountain Bike World Cup, beautiful wildlife and the world's only Malt Whisky Trail. Get to know the Highlands today! Find all this and more at http://www.visitscotland.com/highlands
NoCopyrightSounds, We Upload. You Listen. Free Download: http://bit.ly/kasger-highland NCS Spotify: http://bit.ly/SpotifyNCS Kasger kindly takes us all to the ‘Highland’. NCS ➞ Twitch http://twitch.tv/nocopyrightsounds ➞ Spotify http://bit.ly/SpotifyNCS ➞ SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/nocopyrightsounds ➞ Facebook http://facebook.com/NoCopyrightSounds ➞ Twitter http://twitter.com/NCSounds ➞ Google+ http://google.com/+nocopyrightsounds ➞ Instagram http://instagram.com/nocopyrightsounds_ Kasger ➞ SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/kaspergerlif ➞ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Kasger ➞ Twitter https://twitter.com/Kasger ➞ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/KasgerMusic NCS Playlists: http://bit.ly/NCSdrumstep http://bit.ly/MelodicDubstepNCS http://bit.ly/NCShouse http://bit.ly/NCSdu...
John Michie begins his cross country journey at a reconstructed 17th century township in the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore in the Cairngorms and visits Castle Urquhart on the banks of Scotland's most famous loch, Loch Ness, to discover what life was like if you were wealthy in the 17th century.
Update: See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9A7nYiv8I Visiting the Scottish Highlands. The areas shown include: Isle of Skye, Caithness, Inverness-shire and Sutherland. There's so much to see; but here's a small selection of views. Royalty Free Music from: Music4YourVids.co.uk
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As much as I loved being in Edinburgh for Hogmany, the true highlight of my time in Scotland was touring the Scottish Highlands with Haggis Adventure Tours. Our charismatic guide, Dave, double as both a bus driver and tour guide. With his long ginger beard and charismatic storytelling we learned in depth about each place we visit along our tour including personal stories and anecdotes you wouldn't find by looking any of this up on wikipedia. Overall, we had an opportunity to really experience the true rugged nature of Northern Scotland where we experienced all three distinct days of weather: sunny, torrential rains and winds and just a normal rainy day. Usually, I'm more of an independent type of traveler but this tour was exceptional and I'd recommend it to anyone who is considering visit...
(S. Weber/M. Schumpelt/J.O. Soerup)
it was one of those nights with thunder and rain
when they marched to take the plunge
they kept their wives and children in suspense a month of sundays
they carried banners with pride
the enemy appeared on the other side
but only one of them could get the power