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Inverness

Main town in, and the administrative centre of, Highland unitary authority, Scotland, at the head of the Moray Firth, lying in a sheltered site at the mouth of the River Ness; population (2001) 44,100. It is a tourist centre with tanning, oil-related engineering, distilling, and electronics industries. Culloden Moor, scene of the massacre of clansmen loyal to Charles Edward Stuart by the English Army in April 1746, is situated to the east of Inverness. Until 1975 it was the county town of Inverness-shire.



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