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Lothian is the name applied to the tract of land bounded by the Forth and Tweed rivers, which was absorbed into Northumbria in the 7th cent. and became firmly part of Scotland in the 10th cent. From 1977 until 1996 it formed an administrative region of Scotland. The region was abolished in 1996 and its territory divided between four all‐purpose councils, Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, and West Lothian. The number and strength of the institutions based in Edinburgh cannot fail to ensure that the area round Edinburgh retains the leadership which it acquired when medieval kings of Scotland made it their capital and when ships at the quayside at Leith unloaded French claret and Calvinist theology.

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West Lothian

West Lothian council area (1993 est. pop. 146,730), 164 sq mi (425 sq km), and former county, S central Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, West Lothian was divided between the Lothian and Central regions. In the local government reorganization of 1996, the Lothian and Central regions were dissolved and the council area of West Lothian was created in part from that portion of the county of West Lothian that had been assigned to the Lothian region. The county of West Lothian was formerly called Linlithgow or Linlithgowshire.

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