What Towns Are In Northern Country Victoria?

Five of the ten largest regional cities in Victoria – Bendigo, Shepparton, Wodonga, Wangaratta, and Mildura – fall in the region’s boundaries. What towns are in north east Victoria? The area so enclosed includes all of the Shires of Beechworth, Benalla, Bright, Chiltern, Myrtleford, Oxley, Rutherglen, Tallangatta, Upper Murray, Wangaratta, Yackandandah, and those parts of …

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What Are Scottish Rivers Called?

A “burn”, Scots Gaelic: “allt” (anglicised as “Ault/alt”), used for smaller rivers and larger streams, also once widely used in England, now mostly in placenames especially the north, and sometimes spelled “bourne”, e.g. Bournemouth and Ashbourne. In Scotland examples include Coalburn, Bannockburn, Aultmore. What do Scots call a river? Glais (Archaic Gaelic) River [glash] Uisge …

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