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Fife (Scotland)

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fife council area (1993 est. pop. 351,200), 510 sq mi (1,322 sq km), and former county, E Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay. The land rises to 1,500 ft (457 m) in the Lomond Hills. Fishing villages of great antiquity dot the eastern coast. One of Scotland's most prosperous areas, Fife has pastures and productive farmland in the central valleys of the Leven and Eden and rich coal fields in the west and east. One of the new towns , Glenrothes was opened there in 1959 and has since become industrially diversified. Kirkcaldy was a center of linoleum manufacture... Read more
Fife
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... eastern Scotland. An ancient Pictish kingdom, Fife became one of Scotland's leading provinces ... of the kingdom's seven earldoms. Modern Fife consists largely of an agricultural northeast ... services for Scotland's petroleum industry. Fife's administrative headquarters is Glenrothes ... Read more
fife
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English fife / fīf / • n. a kind of small shrill flute used esp. in military bands. DERIVATIVES: fif·er n. fife Read more

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