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What does Dumfriesshire mean?

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Proper noun
  1. a historic county in Scotland which was abolished in 1975 and absorbed into Dumfries and Galloway Region. Its county town was Dumfries.
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When news was brought to King James of the despite done to his authority by the defeat and slaughter of his representative in Dumfriesshire, he was much incensed.
Mundell represents the Scottish constituency of Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005 in the House of Commons.
The 43-year-old Magnox reactor near Annan in Dumfriesshire currently supplies 196 megawatts of power through the Anglo-Scottish interconnector.
So, in Dumfriesshire or Perthshire, the hunts still meet and dogs are still used to flush out foxes.
Queensberry sold the family seat of Kinmount in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, an action which further alienated him from his family.
Dumfries also lends its name to the lieutenancy area of Dumfries, which is similar in boundaries to the former Dumfriesshire county.

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