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Aberdeen is known historically as The Granite City in reference to the numerous buildings constructed there from stones from local quarries. In the modern world, it is known as the Oil Capital of Europe, an identify forged in the seventies when it served as one of the biggest service bases for the extraction of crude oil in the North Sea.
The history of Aberdeen is a tale two rivers, the rivers Don and Dee or, more appropriately, a tale of the two early burghs that resided near these rivers, referred to separately as Old Aberdeen and New Aberdeen. The former originated at the mouth of the River Don while the latter is located at the River Dee, near the estuary where the Denburn entered and formed a fishing and trading settlement.
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