Strathclyde

An adaptation of the Scottish Gaelic Srath Chluaidh. From Cumbric Ystrad Clud

• IPA^(key): /stɹæθˈklaɪd/

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Strathclyde

1. A former local government region in the west of Scotland, created in 1975, abolished in 1996.
   • 1986, Chiranji Singh Yadav, Urban Planning and Policies, Concept Publishing Company, page 391

     Subsequent to the re-organisation of Scottish local government in 1973, West Central Scotland effectively became the urbanised industrial heartland of Strathclyde Region which focused upon the area previously known as the Clydeside...

2. The Kingdom of Strathclyde, a former kingdom (AD 450–1093) spanning southern Scotland and northern England.
   • 2003, Krishan Kumar, The Making of English National Identity, Cambridge University Press →ISBN

     The Scots then had to deal with the Britons of Strathclyde, the British kingdom in southwest Scotland that at its height included Cumbria down to the Welsh border. The Britons shared power with the Scots and Picts in the early medieval period...

3. Strathclyde University
   • 2015, Alison Baverstock, How to Market Books, Routledge →ISBN

     Strathclyde University was the first in Britain to offer a full range of degrees—undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral—in the subject of Marketing...

“Strathclyde” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.