Waverley

Waverley
Wa·ver·ley (wāʹvər-lē)
A city of southeast Australia, an industrial suburb of Melbourne. Population: 122,471.

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the main railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the eastern end of Princes Street. It was opened in 1846, when it was called the General Station, but in 1854 it was named after the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott.

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      borough (district), administrative and historic county of Surrey, England. It occupies the southwestern corner of the county, along the Hampshire and Sussex borders. Its wooded hills and heathlands have been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Much of the district is drained by the River Wey. In the north are the medieval market towns of Farnham, surrounding a Norman castle, and Godalming, once known for leather tanning and the cloth trade. In the south is Haslemere, home of the musical Dolmetsch family. Area 133 square miles (345 square km). Pop. (2001) 115,639.

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  • Waverley — bezeichnet Literarische Werke: einen Roman von Walter Scott, siehe Waverley (Roman) Orte: einen Ort nahe Halifax, Neuschottland, siehe Waverley (Kanada) einen Ort in der Region Taranaki in Neuseeland, siehe Waverley (Neuseeland) einen Stadtteil… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Waverley —   [ weɪvəli], Roman von W. Scott; englisch 3 Teile, 1814, deutscher Titel identisch. Nach diesem anonym veröffentlichten Erstling wurden seine 27 Romane über die schottische Geschichte, in denen er viel beachtete Techniken zur Erweckung der… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Waverley — (spr. ŭēwerlĭ), der erste der historischen Romane Walter Scotts (s. Scott 1) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Waverley — Ilustración de Waverley de 1893 por John Pettie. Waverley, novela escrita en 1814 por el escritor, poeta y editor escocés Walter Scott. Contenido …   Wikipedia Español

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  • Waverley (roman) — Waverley ou Soixante ans avant est un roman historique de Walter Scott, paru anonymement en 1814. Première entreprise de Scott dans la fiction en prose, Waverley est considéré, notamment par Louis Maigron …   Wikipédia en Français

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