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Isle Of Bute
The Isle of Bute, referred to as Bute, is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, UK. It is separated into highland and also lowland locations by the Highland Boundary Fault. Formerly a basic island of the bigger Region of Bute, it is currently part of the council location of Argyll and Bute. Bute's resident population was 6,498 in 2011, a decline of just over 10% from the number of 7,228 recorded in 2001 versus a history of Scottish island populations in its entirety expanding by 4% to 103,702 for the same duration. The name "Bute" is of unclear beginning. Watson as well as Mac an Tàilleir assistance a derivation from Old Irish bót ("fire"), possibly of signal fires. This referral to beacon fires may date from the Viking period, when the island was probably understood to the Norse as Bót. Other feasible derivations consist of Brythonic budh ("corn"), "triumph", St Brendan, or both, his reclusive cell. There is no most likely derivation from Ptolemy's Ebudae. The island was also understood throughout the Viking era as Rothesay, perhaps describing the personal name Roth or Roderick and the Old Norse suffix ey ("island"). This name was at some point taken by the major community on the island, whose Gaelic name is Baile Bhòid ("town of Bute").