Mar

Mar is a district, committee area, in South Aberdeenshire in Scotland, between the Don and the Dee, has given a title to many earls. It was formerly a province. One of the earls was regent of Scotland in 1572, another, nicknamed "Bobbing Joan," led the Jacobite rising of 1715. On the death without issue of the earl in 1866 the question of succession was at issue. The Committee of Privileges granted it to his cousin, the Earl of Kellie, thereafter Mar and Kellie, and a Bill in Parliament awarding it to his nephew, who was thus Earl of Mar.

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Marabouts, Maracaybo, Maram, Maranatha, Maranon