Meirionnydd
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Map of Welsh '''''' is a coastal and mountainous region of Wales. It has been a kingdom, a , a district and, as Merionethshire, a county. It is currently a committee area within the county Gwynedd.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in GB, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1974 establishments in Wales, Cantrefs and Districts of Gwynedd.
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0900-00-00
- inception
- 0500-00-00
- native label
- Meirionydd
- P12749
- Hannelore Elsner
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thumb|250px|Map of Welsh '''''' is a coastal and mountainous region of Wales. It has been a kingdom, a , a district and, as Merionethshire, a county. It is currently a committee area within the county Gwynedd.
==Kingdom== (Meirion, with as a Welsh suffix of land, literally 'Land adjoined to Meirion') was a sub-kingdom of Gwynedd, founded according to legend by Meirion (derived from the Latin name ), a grandson of Cunedda, a warrior-prince who brought his family to Wales from the (the 'Old North', northern England and southern Scotland today), probably in the early 5th century. His dynasty seems to have ruled there for the next four hundred years. The kingdom lay between the River Mawddach and the River Dovey, spreading in a north-easterly direction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meirionnydd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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