'''Stirlingshire''' is a county in the heart of [[Scotland]]. It occupies the pinch between the rivers Clyde and Forth, and straddles the boundary between the [[Central Lowlands]] and the [[Scottish Highlands]]. Prior to around the 9th century, modern-day Stirlingshire formed a political boundary between the Gaels to the west, the Picts to the north and east and the Britons and Angles to the south.
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'''Stirlingshire''' is a county in the heart of [[Scotland]]. It occupies the pinch between the rivers Clyde and Forth, and straddles the boundary between the [[Central Lowlands]] and the [[Scottish Highlands]]. Prior to around the 9th century, modern-day Stirlingshire formed a political and ethnolinguistic boundary between the Gaels of [[Dal Riata]] to the west, the [[Picts]] to the north and east and the [[Britons]] and [[Angles]] to the south.