Glenlivet is the glen in the Scottish Highlands

Scottish Highlands

The Highlands is an historic region of Scotland. The area is sometimes referred to as the "Scottish Highlands". It was culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands...

 through which the River Livet flows.

The river rises high in the Ladder Hills. It flows gently down through the village of Tomnavoulin and onto the Bridgend of Glenlivet, flowing under the ancient packhorse bridge before emptying into the River Avon, one of the main tributaries of the River Spey

River Spey

The River Spey is a river in the northeast of Scotland, the second longest and the fastest-flowing river in Scotland...

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Glenlivet is known for the Glenlivet Estate

Glenlivet Estate

The Glenlivet Estate is located in Glenlivet, Scotland in the Cairngorms National Park. It measures and is part of The Crown Estate. The estate also boasts won of the most famous Scottish whisky Glenlivet. The visitor centre is open from April through to November.-External links:** **...

 and the whisky The Glenlivet

The Glenlivet

The Glenlivet Distillery is a distillery near Ballindalloch in Moray, Scotland that produces single malt Scotch whisky. It is the oldest legal distillery in the parish of Glenlivet, and the production place of the Scottish whisky of the same name. It is described in packaging and advertising as...

. The Battle of Glenlivet

Battle of Glenlivet

The Battle of Glenlivet was fought on 3 October 1594 near Allanreid and Morinsh in Scotland.-Background:This battle is often seen as a religious conflict, and was fought by the Catholic forces of the George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly and Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, who were victorious over...

 occurred on 3 October 1594.

Etymology

The name Livet may derive from the Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic language

Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language native to Scotland. A member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages, Scottish Gaelic, like Modern Irish and Manx, developed out of Middle Irish, and thus descends ultimately from Primitive Irish....

liobh + ait meaning 'slippery' or 'smooth' + 'place'. Alternatively it has been suggested that it is either an early Gaelic or pre-Gaelic name signifying 'full of water' or 'floody'.