Aberdeen, İskoçya'da kent. Kuzeydoğu İskoçya'nin en önemli limanı ve ticaret merkezi olan Aberdeen, Kuzey Denizi kıyısında yer alır. Nüfusu 212,125'dir. İskoç balıkçılık sanayisinin merkezi, Orkney ve Shetland adalarına gönderilen malların yükleme limanı olan kent, özellikle Kuzey Denizi'nde petrol yatakları bulunup işletilmeye başlanmasından sonra gelişmiştir
a port in northeast Scotland. It is the centre of the North Sea Oil industry. City, council area (pop., 2001: 212,125), and commercial port on the North Sea, eastern Scotland. It constitutes the council area of Aberdeen, an enclave within the surrounding council area of Aberdeenshire, which was also the name of the historic county of which Aberdeen was the seat. Situated at the mouths of the Rivers Dee and Don, it is the chief port of northern Scotland. It was a royal burgh from the 12th century and a Scottish royal residence in the 12th-14th centuries. It supported Robert the Bruce in wars for Scottish independence, and for a time it was the headquarters of Edward I. From the 1970s Aberdeen developed rapidly as the principal British centre of the North Sea oil industry and its associated service and supply industries
born Jan. 28, 1784, Edinburgh, Scot. died Dec. 14, 1860, London, Eng. British foreign secretary and prime minister (1852-55). As special ambassador to Austria in 1813, he helped form the coalition that defeated Napoleon. As foreign secretary (1828-30, 1841-46), he settled boundary disputes between Canada and the U.S. with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty and the Oregon Treaty (see Oregon Question). As prime minister, he formed a coalition government, but his indecision hampered peacekeeping efforts and led to Britain's involvement in the Crimean War. Constitutionally responsible for the mistakes of British generals in the war, he resigned in 1855