Dunfermline
[key], city, Fife, E central Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. It is a
center for the manufacture of table linen and terylene, a synthetic fabric,
and has silk mills, collieries, and engineering works. The naval base of
Rosyth became part of the city in 1911. Dunfermline abbey, founded by
Malcolm III of Scotland in the 11th cent., holds his remains and those of
his wife, St. Margaret, and of Robert I. The palace was a favorite seat of
Scottish kings and was the birthplace of Charles I of England. Andrew
Carnegie, the
industrialist, was born in Dunfermline, which is now the headquarters of the
Carnegie Trusts. Carnegie gave the town its library and Pittencrieff Glen, a
60-acre (24-hectare) public park.
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