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'''Moray''' is a [[Scottish]] [[county]].

'''Moray''' (from Old Celt ''mori-tref'' = “sea-settlement” ) is a unitary authority in north-east [[Scotland]], since the 1975 local government reforms part of the Grampian Region. It is pronounced “Murray” and an inhabitant is  a ''morave'' from the [[Latin]] for the area (''Moravia''.)

[[Category:Scottish Counties and Regions]]

 

An alliance of [[Scots]] and [[Vikings]] conquered the area in the ninth century, subduing the original [[Picts]] and forming the Kingdom of Moray. Its most notable ruler was to be [[Macbeth]] who assumed the Scottish throne in about 1040, however, by the end of the eleventh century it had begun to be subsumed into the Scottish crown as a [[county]], a process completed by the end of the thirteenth century.

 

The county town ( and current administrative centre) was [[Elgin]]. The region is bound in the north by the [[North Sea]] in the west by the highlands and to the east and south by [[Aberdeenshire]]. The slope between the Grampians in the south and the sea, watered by the River Spey,  is a fine [[barley]] growing district with many [[whisky]] distilleries.  

 

 

[[Category: Scottish Counties and Regions]]