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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:14:36 GMT Councillor 'target of extremists'
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:40 GMT One man dies as ice affects roads
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:12:53 GMT Broadcaster Emyr Daniel, 63, dies
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:49:39 GMT Bells celebrate canal anniversary
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:32:34 GMT Extremism concern after bomb plot
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:38:27 GMT Three bidders remain for Peacocks
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:11 GMT Police seek gun as sheep killed
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:44:43 GMT Olympic rings display in Cardiff
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:32:22 GMT Weston's police commissioner aim
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:42:31 GMT Church hacking case goes to court
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:31:06 GMT County assess interim Parade move
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:49:58 GMT Hospitals show pupils' drug films
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:55:26 GMT Caerleon train station proposed
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:29:51 GMT Halfpenny set to kick for Wales
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:26:41 GMT Cardiff Blues 22-15 Connacht
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:27:40 GMT Edinburgh 14-15 Ospreys
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:04:51 GMT Ulster 30-12 Dragons
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:29:15 GMT Wales U20 28-15 Scotland U20
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:13:08 GMT VIDEO: Welsh Assembly

Gwent
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Gwent is the area of south-easternmost Wales, in the Welsh Marches. It is traditionally bounded on the east by the River Wye, the border between England and Wales, and on the south by the Severn Estuary.

The area has been occupied since the Paleolithic, with a famous Roman site at Caerleon.

The mediæval British kingdom of Gwent was the area between the rivers Usk and Wye, and took a name that literally means 'place', or 'the place'. It came into existence after the Romans had left Britain and survived in various forms until the Norman invasion of the west in 1067-91 AD. The Normans partitioned the area into the lordships of Abergavenny, Monmouth, Striguil (Chepstow) and Usk.

The lordships were the basic units of administration for the next 450 or so years, until Henry VIII passed the Laws in Wales Act 1535. This Act abolished the marcher lordships and established the county of Monmouthshire out of them — combining the lordships of Newport (Gwynllwg) and Caerleon east of the river Usk and Abergavenny, Monmouth, Usk and Chepstow to the west of it.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, writers began using the name "Gwent" in a romantic literary way to describe Monmouthshire, and in the local government re-organisations of 1974/5, many new administrative areas in Britain were named after mediæval kingdoms — such as Cumbria, Strathclyde and "Gwent".

This new administrative Gwent was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974. It consisted of most of the former administrative county of Monmouthshire, along with the county borough of Newport, along with Brynmawr and Llanelly from Brecknockshire, and therefore not the same area as the previous kingdom. It was only to last for 22 years though, as in the next wave of local government reform in 1996, it was abolished.

The name however remains as one of the preserved counties of Wales used for certain ceremonial purposes, and it also survives in various titles, e.g., Gwent Police, Royal Gwent Hospital, the Gwent Levels and the Newport Gwent Dragons rugby team.

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