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  2. Welsh independence - Wikipedia

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    The only king to unite Wales was Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, who ruled as King of Wales from about 1057 until his death in 1063. [11] [12] Fourteen years later the Norman invasion of Wales began, which briefly controlled much of Wales, but by 1100 Anglo-Norman control was reduced to the lowland Gwent, Glamorgan, Gower, and Pembroke, while the contested border region between the Welsh princes and ...

  3. South West Wales - Wikipedia

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    The Swansea Bay City Region is a partnership between local authorities, businesses and other organisations. In April 2021, a South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee was formed to allow the four local councils in the region to collaborate in areas relating to economic well-being, strategic planning and the development of regional transport ...

  4. Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company - Wikipedia

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    The world's first passenger railway, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (SMR), had demonstrated the power of rails to carry passengers but a street tramway was not considered until after the Tramways Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 78) when a group of business men formed the Swansea Tramways Company. [1]

  5. West Wales Parkway railway station - Wikipedia

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    West Wales Parkway (Welsh: Parcffordd Gorllewin Cymru; also proposed as Swansea North; Gogledd Abertawe and Parc Felindre) is a proposed railway station north of Swansea, near to the boundaries of the neighbouring principal area of Carmarthenshire, and the villages of Felindre and Llangyfelach.

  6. Swansea - Wikipedia

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    Swansea (/ ˈ s w ɒ n z i / SWON-zee; Welsh: Abertawe [abɛrˈtawɛ]) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Abertawe). [4] The city is the twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom.

  7. The World Bank Group's Uncounted - The Huffington Post

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    MASS also asked the National Fishworkers Forum to send an independent fact-finding team to Mundra. The team, which included a retired judge and a marine scientist, visited shortly after the plant opened and met with both fishers and Tata managers.

  8. Swansea East (Senedd constituency) - Wikipedia

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    Swansea East (Welsh: Dwyrain Abertawe) is a constituency of the Senedd.It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. It is one of seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

  9. Democrats search for a leader to rebuild as the party figures ...

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    The DNC will hold three additional forums: one in Detroit on January 16 focused on the Midwest; one virtually on January 23 focused on the West; and a final in-person event in Washington, DC, on ...