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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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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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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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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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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[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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perhaps three commotes. The Red Book of Hergest mentions Hwlffordd (Haverfordwest) commote and Castell Gwalchmei (Walwyn's Castle) commote. The former is...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Powys. It possibly consisted of the commotes (cymydau) of Cynan, Hafren and Uwch Hanes. Other sources give the commotes as Cedewain, Eginlle and Ceri. It...
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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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Nanheudwy (category Commotes)
Nanheudwy was a medieval commote of Wales considered part of the ancient Kingdom of Powys in the cantref of Swydd y Waun. It was traditionally defined...
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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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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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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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Dinieithon (category Commotes)
'fort on the River Ieithon'; also known as Dineithon or Cefnllys) was a commote within the cantref of Maelienydd, in the medieval region of Rhwng Gwy a...
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Mochnant (category Commotes)
cantref in the Kingdom of Powys. In the 12th century it was divided into the commotes of Mochnant Is Rhaeadr (in the north) and Mochnant Uwch Rhaeadr (in the...
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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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Deuddwr (category Commotes)
for 'confluence'; lit. 'two waters'; Welsh pronunciation) was a medieval commote (cwmwd) in the cantref of Ystlyg in the Kingdom of Powys. It lay at the...
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Conwy lordship to Iorwerth, together with an appropriate manor in that commote. Iorwerth Drwyndwn and Marged ferch Madog were married, he 40 years old...
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Welsh Romani Traditions Traditional Welsh costume Welsh law Land division (Commote Cantref Historic counties) Mythology and folklore Arthurian legend Matter...
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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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