A commote (Welsh: cwmwd, sometimes spelt in older documents as cymwd, plural cymydau, less frequently cymydoedd) was a secular division of land in Medieval...
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three cantref Is Aeron commotes. Caerwedros was a coastal commote, which lay on the shores of Cardigan Bay. It boarded Anhuniog commote in the north (in the...
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Ial (redirect from Ial (commote))
Ial or Yale (Welsh: Iâl) was a commote of medieval Wales within the cantref of Maelor in the Kingdom of Powys. When the Kingdom was divided in 1160, Maelor...
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above the Conwy, or upper Gwynedd Commote of Arllechwedd Arfon Commote Dunoding Commote Commote of Llyn Meirionnydd Commote Also known as Perfeddwlad, or...
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Twrcelyn Rural District (redirect from Twrcelyn commote)
Twrcelyn was a rural district in the administrative county of Anglesey, Wales, from 1894 to 1974. The district took its name from Twrcelyn, one of the...
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region and part of the historic county of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. The principal area is the second most populous local authority...
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have historically been on the borders of the commote of Rhuddlan in the cantref of Tegeingl, and the commote of Isdulas in the cantref of Rhufoniog. Under...
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Powys Fadog (section List of cantrefi and commotes)
I inherited the north. Gruffydd received the cantref of Maelor and the commote of Yale (Iâl) as his portion, and later added Nanheudwy, Cynllaith, Glyndyfrdwy...
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was made rhaglaw (bailiff) of the commote at Malltraeth. His brothers Rhys and Goronwy held similar roles in the commote of Dindaethwy. Maredudd was named...
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Fyrnwy (commotes of Mochnant Uwch Rhaeadr, Mechain Is Coed and Llanerch Hudol) Llyswynaf (commotes of Caereinion and Mechain Uwch Coed) Ystlyg (commotes of...
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in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales. It was part of the medieval commote (Welsh: cwmwd) of Tir Iarll. The village is the site of Llangynwyd parish...
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Ardudwy (category Commotes of Gwynedd)
first a division of the sub kingdom (cantref) of Dunoding and later a commote in its own right. The fertile swathe of land stretching from Barmouth to...
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divided into cantrefi, which were themselves divided into smaller cymydau (commotes). The word cantref is derived from cant ("a hundred") and tref ("town"...
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Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was formed by the Act of Union of 1536 from the commote of the pre-Norman cantref of Emlyn included by the Act in Pembrokeshire...
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Dindaethwy (redirect from Commote Dindaethwy)
Dindaethwy was in medieval times one of two commotes of the cantref of Rhosyr, in the south-east of the Isle of Anglesey. It was between the Menai Strait...
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Britain in the 5th century. The name was later used for a much smaller commote or administrative sub-division, which covered the area of the modern Vale...
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Subdivisions of Wales (section Cantrefi and Commotes)
The subdivisions of Wales constitute a hierarchy of administrative divisions and non-administrative ceremonial areas. For the purposes of local government...
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Syllepte commotes is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Willie Horace Thomas Tams in 1935. It is found on Samoa. "global Pyraloidea database"...
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cantrefi which were divided into two (or fewer) commotes, Cantref Gwarthaf was divided into eight commotes: Amgoed, Derllys, Efelfre, Elfed [cy; br], Penrhyn...
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Buchan and Marr to those of the Welsh commotes Cantref Bychan and Cantref Mawr, meaning "small commote" and "large commote", respectively. The first documentary...
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Llanfwrog, Denbighshire. In the Middle Ages Llanfwrog parish lay in the commote Talybolion in the Hundred of Cemaes. The church belonged to the rectory...
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[kəˈvɛiljɔɡ]) was a medieval commote in the cantref of Cynan of the Kingdom of Powys. Cynan also contained the commote of Mawddwy. Other sources refer...
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Rhos (North Wales) (category Commotes of Gwynedd)
Llandrillo yn Rhos (Rhos-on-Sea) and Penmaen Rhos. Creuddyn was a historic commote of Rhos, then later of Caernarfonshire. Roose Hundred John Britton; et al...
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burnt down Glyndŵr's houses at Sycharth and Glyndyfrdwy, as well as the commote of Edeirnion and parts of Powys. Glyndŵr continued to besiege towns and...
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when Dafydd came of age, and in 1252 Owain invested him as lord of the commote of Cymydmaen, at the western end of the Llŷn Peninsula. In 1253, he was...
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parts of the pre-Norman cantrefs of Penfro (the commote of Coedrath) and Cantref Gwarthaf (the commote of Efelfre).: 463 It derived its Welsh name, Arberth...
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Cwmdauddwr (category Commotes)
corresponds approximately to the medieval commote of Cwmwd Deuddwr (Welsh for 'Commote of the Confluence'; lit. 'commote of the two waters'). It was so called...
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Parade Street. Llangollen was an ancient parish. It formed part of the commote of Nanheudwy within the cantref of Chirkland, which became part of Denbighshire...
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Einion) was a medieval cantref in the Kingdom of Powys, or possibly it was a commote (cwmwd) within a cantref called Llŷs Wynaf. It was divided into the manors...
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century C.E. Latin inscription of the Pillar of Eliseg in the ancient commote of Yale, near Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire, Wales. The inscription...
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