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Parts of Scotland without sheep

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6 Last spring I visited Rùm and I was impressed to get an impression what Scotland might have looked like in the past. The absence of sheep combined with an attempt to reforest part of it gave a dramatically different expression from the deforestation and overgrazing of mainland Scotland, even though the natural ecology is still quite far from beig restored even on Rùm. Are there any other parts of Scotland without sheep and where natural vegetation is given a chance to recover? nature-and-wildlife scotland share | improve this question edited Dec 13 '16 at 1:02 gerrit asked Dec 13 '16 at 0:53 gerrit gerrit 27.3k 9 90 212 add a comment  |  6 Last spring I visited Rùm and I was impressed to get an impression what Scotland might have looked like in the past. The absence of sheep combined with an attempt to reforest part of it gave a dramatically different expression from the deforestation and overgraz

Hungarians

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Magyarok The seven Magyar chieftains arriving to the Carpathian Basin. Detail from Árpád Feszty's cyclorama titled the Arrival of the Hungarians . Total population c. 14.2–14.5 million Regions with significant populations Hungary 9,632,744    (2016) [1]   United States 1,437,694-4,000,000    (2013) [2]   Romania 1,227,623    (2011) [3]   Slovakia [note 1] 458,467    (2011) [4]   Canada 315,510    (2006) [5]   Serbia 253,899    (2011) [6]   Ukraine 156,566    (2001) [7]   Germany 156,812 [8]   France 100,000–200,000    (2004) [9]   Brazil 80,000 [10]   Austria 77,174    (2018) [11]   Australia 67,616 [12]   United Kingdom 52,250    (2011)   Sweden 40,000–70,000   Denmark 50,000-55,000   Argentina 40,000–50,000   Croatia 16,595    (2001) [13]   Israel c. 10,000-200,000   Ireland 8,034    (2011) [14]   Italy 7,708    (2015) [15]   Turkey 6,800    (2001) [2]   Slovenia 6,243    (2002) [16]   Czech Republic 4,102    (2016) [17]   Russia 3,768    (2002) [18]   Norway 2,214    (2017)