New Edinburgh

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English[edit]

The location of New Edinburgh¹ indicated on the Isthmus of Panama, ashore of the Gulf of Darién.

Etymology[edit]

Named for Edinburgh, both then and now the capital city of Scotland.

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New Edinburgh

  1. (history) The capital of the short-lived Scottish colony of New Caledonia (1698–1700), now Sukunya, a.k.a. Puerto Escocés (Spanish for “Port Scotland”).
  2. A community founded in 1783, currently located in Clare district municipality, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  3. A settlement in Ontario, Canada, established in 1829, incorporated as a village of that name in 1867, and annexed by the City of Ottawa in 1887, of which it now forms a neighbourhood in its Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward. (The affluent neighbourhood is notable as the location of the official residences of both the Governor General and the Prime Minister of Canada.)

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