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Maximus ruled the Roman West until he was killed in 388. A succession of governors ruled southeastern Britain until 407, but there is nothing to suggest that any Roman effort was made to regain control of the west or north after 383; that year was the definitive end of the Roman era in Wales.
Bridgend County Borough stretches from the south coast of Wales up to the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons. The 57 scheduled monuments cover over 4,000 years of the history of this part of South Wales. There are chambered tombs of the Neolithic, and burial cairns and standing stones of the Bronze Age, Iron Age hillforts, and a Roman villa ...
The Demetae were a Celtic people of Iron Age and Roman period, who inhabited modern Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales. The tribe also gave their name to the medieval Kingdom of Dyfed, the modern area and county of Dyfed and the distinct dialect of Welsh spoken in modern south-west Wales, Dyfedeg.
Historically, Wales and the south-western peninsula were known respectively as North Wales and West Wales. [22] The Celtic north of England and southern Scotland was referred to in Welsh as Hen Ogledd ("old north"). The struggles of this period have given rise to the legends of Uther Pendragon and King Arthur.
A farmer in Wales had a field that just made life too difficult. He was continually hitting slate and stone. It turns out, there was a good reason for all the struggle: a buried Roman fort.. Mark ...
North Wales Elementary School formerly housed the North Wales Memorial Free Library from 1927 to 2009. Due to the growing number of students at school, as well as the library's need for more space, the library purchased and relocated to a much larger (10,000 ft 2, over 900 m 2) building at 233 South Swartley Street. They began operating with ...
Schematic map of Roman roads and forts between Caerleon and west Wales dating to the later 1st century AD. Where the Roman names are known, these were identified through the Ravenna Cosmography [a] (except for Luentinum and Moridunum which are mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia). Blue/black dots are listed in the Cosmography. [1]
1325 Upper State Rd, North Wales: Founded in 1987 [80] St. Rose of Lima 424 S. Main St, North Wales: Founded in 1919, current church dedicated in 1966 [81] St. Philip Neri 1325 Klinerd Rd, Pennsburg: Founded in 1919 Epiphany of Our Lord 3050 Walton Rd, Plymouth Meeting: Founded in 1957 [82] St. Aloysius 844 N. Keim St, Pottstown