Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	Scotland
Borders	Berwickshire Cumberland Dumfriesshire Northumberland Selkirkshire
Area (sq mi)	666 square miles

Roxburghshire (occasionally abbreviated Rox.) is a county of the Anglo-Scottish border region, lying in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. With an area of 666 sq mi, the county is almost co-extensive with Teviotdale. The county is named after the former royal burgh of Roxburgh, which has been in ruins since the 15th century in ruins but still lends its name to a village and civil parish. The county town is Jedburgh and the largest settlement in Hawick.

Within the former Brittonic-speaking region of Yr Hen Ogledd ("The Old North") and, from the 7th-9th century, the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, Roxburghshire emerged as a sheriffdom of the Kingdom of Scotland in the 12th century. At around this time, the area was perhaps the most politically important in the kingdom, as David I had his royal seat at Roxburgh, making it effectively the capital.