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In the 5th century, a great British warrior chief battled Saxon invaders.His heroism was legend.His deeds spun by storytellers, his gallantry became richer in each telling.He would become king of
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Welsh letter pronunciation: a thread C• always the K sound as in cat or Kill• never S as in city Conwy—Ch• always as the Ch in the Scottish loch• never
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Between the cities of Cardiff and Newport lies a vast network of ancient, secretive waterways, known as "The Gwent Levels"For millennia, this landscape has been farmed, flooded and reclaimed from
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The word "Wales" reveals the origins of Britain, and a gnawing history of Anglo-Saxon oppression…It was used by invading tribes to mean 'foreigners' or 'outsiders,' despite Brythonic peoples (latterly Welsh,
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Between May and October 1992, an estimated 2 million people made a pilgrimage to the former site of a vast steelworks in the post-industrial town of Ebbw Vale.They came for
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In May 1839, a group of men in women's clothes attacked and demolished a turnpike at Efail-wen, Carmarthenshire.Their riots would empower the poor.They became a totem.A symbol of rebellion, against
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At the heart of Carmarthenshire's Cothi Valley lies the engine of Roman Britain's power.Deep within this wild, green, rocky landscape sits the most advanced ancient mining operation ever discovered in
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On a tiny island at the western fringes of Ynys Môn, encircled by the Irish Sea, in the silhouette of the mighty Wicklow Mountains, sits a landmark.A beacon to the
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Between a tiny Ceredigion village and the sea lies an area of flat land, bordered by the rivers Peris and Cledan.On maps, it's called Morfa Esgob (Bishop's Land).It's strangely divided
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In 1898, a spectacularly ill-fated business venture began in Wales' 2nd city:• It lasted 2 years• Made virtually no money• Cost the equivalent of £600k• Is widely considered mythicalIt was
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For a millennium it lay unseen and undisturbed, a stone's throw from one of Wales' most beautiful beaches.But in 2007, an aerial survey revealed something astonishing just beneath the waves.
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Laugharne, once home to Wales' most celebrated poet, Dylan Thomas, has a strange and intriguing past.Still presided over by a male-only medieval "corporation," Laugharne's (Talacharn in Welsh) 730-year-old system of
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