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Dyfed (Welsh pronunciation:) is a preserved county in southwestern Wales, covering the modern counties Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire. It is mostly rural area with a coastline on the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel .
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr remains one of five Dyfed constituencies and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales region. However, boundaries within Dyfed changed, to realign them with local government ward boundaries and to reduce the disparities in the sizes of constituency electorates, and the boundaries of the region changed ...
Post-Roman Welsh petty kingdoms. Dyfed is the promontory on the southwestern coast. The modern Anglo-Welsh border is also shown. The Kingdom of Dyfed (Welsh pronunciation:), one of several Welsh petty kingdoms that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain in southwest Wales, was based on the former territory of the Demetae (modern Welsh Dyfed).
Five constituencies cover Dyfed, also used for elections to the Senedd. The current boundaries have been effective since the 2007 Welsh Assembly election and the 2010 United Kingdom general election. [1] [n 1] Dyfed is one of the eight preserved counties of Wales, consisting of the principal areas of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and ...
Map showing Dyfed, after the late 7th century, showing its seven cantrefi. Map showing the location of Dyfed in southwesternmost Wales. Vortiporius or Vortipor (Old Welsh: Guortepir, Middle Welsh: Gwrdeber or Gwerthefyr) [1] was a king of Dyfed in the early to mid-6th century.
John Speed's 1610 map of Carmarthen. Carmarthen, 1823 Carmarthen, Entrance from the Bridge, 1865. One of the earliest recorded Eisteddfodau took place at Carmarthen in about 1451, presided over by Gruffudd ap Nicolas. [24] [25] The Book of Ordinances (1569–1606) is one of the earliest surviving minute books of a town in Wales. It gives a ...
Carmarthen District Council (Welsh: Caerfyrddin) was one of six local government districts of the county of Dyfed, west Wales, from 1974 to 1996. History The ...
The borough of Llanelli and county of Dyfed were both abolished in 1996 and their councils' functions passed to a re-established Carmarthenshire County Council. [21] After the 1974 reforms, the Town Hall served as the town's library until 2002, but has been disused since then.