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Perth
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Surrounded by fertile agricultural land and beautiful scenery,
PERTH
was for several centuries Scotland's capital. During the reign of James I, Parliament met here on several occasions, but its glory was short-lived: the king was murdered in the town's Dominican priory in 1437 by the traitorous Sir Robert Graham. Despite decline in the seventeenth century, the community expanded in the eighteenth and has prospered ever since; today the whisky and insurance trades employ significant numbers, and Perth remains an important and bustling market town. Other useful information
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United Kingdom,
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