Peninsulas of Scotland: Fife, Glensanda, Knoydart, Rhins of Galloway, Kintyre, Ardnamurchan, Chanonry Point, Applecross, Black Isle, Duirinish

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 101. Not illustrated. Chapters: Fife, Glensanda, Knoydart, Rhins of Galloway, Kintyre, Ardnamurchan, Chanonry Point, Applecross, Black Isle, Duirinish, Skye, Morvern, Machars, Dunnet Head, Craignish, Sleat, Tarbert, Cowal, Argyll's Bowling Green, Point, Outer Hebrides, Minginish, Ross of Mull, Strathaird, Coigach, Waternish, Trotternish, Faraid Head, Grim Ness. Excerpt: Fife (Scots: , Scottish Gaelic: ) is a council area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. It was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland. It is a lieutenancy area, and was a county of Scotland until 1975. It was very occasionally known by the anglification Fifeshire in old documents and maps compiled by English cartographers and authors. A person from Fife is known as a Fifer. Fife was a local government region divided into three districts Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and North-East Fife. Since 1996 the functions of the district councils have been exercised by the unitary Fife Council. Fife is Scotland's third largest local authority area by population. It has a resident population of just under 360,000, almost a third of whom live in the three principal towns of Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes. Kirkcaldy has Fife's largest population (48,108 in 2006). The historic town of St Andrews is located on the east coast of Fife. It is well known for one of the most ancient universities in Europe, and as the home of golf. Legend has it that upon the death of Cruithne, the Pictish realm known collectively as Pictavia was divided into seven sub-kingdoms or provinces, one of which became Fife. The name is recorded as Fib in A.D. 1150 and Fif in 1165. It was often associated with Fothriff. F...