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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURRIFF , a municipal and See also:

police See also:burgh of See also:Aberdeenshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901), 2273. It lies near the Deveron, 38 m. N.W. of See also:Aberdeen by the See also:Great See also:North of Scotland railway, via Inveramsay. In the See also:choir of the See also:ancient See also:church, now in ruins, is a See also:fresco See also:painting of St See also:Ninian. On the 14th of May 1639 the See also:national struggle for See also:civil and religious See also:liberty was inaugurated in the See also:county with the skirmish known as the Trot of Turriff. Some 4 M. See also:south are the remains of the See also:castle of Towie See also:Barclay, the seat of the old See also:family of the Barclays.

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