Cardiff - Wikipedia. Cardiff. Dinas a Sir Caerdydd. City and County of Cardiff. City & County. Motto: . The city is the country's chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales. The unitary authority area's mid- 2.
Larger Urban Zone was estimated at 8. The Cardiff metropolitan area makes up over a third of the total population of Wales, with a mid- 2. Cardiff is a significant tourist centre and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 1. Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. A small town until the early 1. Cardiff was made a city in 1. Wales in 1. 95. 5.
Since the 1. 98. 0s, Cardiff has seen significant development. A new waterfront area at Cardiff Bay contains the Senedd building, home to the Welsh Assembly and the Wales Millennium Centre arts complex. Current developments include the continuation of the redevelopment of the Cardiff Bay and city centre areas with projects such as the Cardiff International Sports Village, a BBC drama village. The city was awarded the title of European City of Sport twice, due to its role in hosting major international sporting events: first in 2. The change from - dyf to - dydd shows the colloquial alteration of Welsh f. This sound change had probably first occurred in the Middle Ages; both forms were current in the Tudor period.
Caerdyf has its origins in post- Roman. Brythonic words meaning .
The fort probably refers to that established by the Romans. Caer is Welsh for fort and - dyf is in effect a form of Taf (Taff), the river which flows by Cardiff Castle, with the . As English does not have the vowel . Although some sources repeat this theory, it has been rejected on linguistic grounds by modern scholars such as Professor Gwynedd Pierce. The modern English- Welsh border is also shown.
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Archaeological evidence from sites in and around Cardiff – the St Lythans burial chamber, near Wenvoe (about four miles (6. Cardiff city centre), the Tinkinswood burial chamber, near St Nicholas (about six miles (1. Cardiff city centre), the Cae'rarfau Chambered Tomb, Creigiau (about six miles (1. Cardiff city centre) and the Gwern y Cleppa Long Barrow, near Coedkernew, Newport (about eight and a quarter miles (1. Cardiff city centre) – shows that people had settled in the area by at least around 6,0. BP), during the early Neolithic; about 1,5. Stonehenge or the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed.
The fort may have been abandoned in the early 2nd century as the area had been subdued. However, by this time a civilian settlement, or vicus, was established. It was likely made up of traders who made a living from the fort, ex- soldiers and their families. A Roman villa has been discovered at Ely. Similar to the shore forts, the fortress was built to protect Britannia from raiders.
The settlement probably shrank in size and may even have been abandoned. In the absence of Roman rule, Wales was divided into small kingdoms; early on, Meurig ap Tewdrig emerged as the local king in Glywysing (which later became Glamorgan).
The area passed through his family until the advent of the Normans in the 1. Original Roman work can, however, still be distinguished in the wall facings. A town grew up in the shadow of the castle, made up primarily of settlers from England. In no small part due to the historic Anglicisation of the town, in 1. Owain Glynd. Ironically given the treatment of Cardiff by Glyndwr, a statue of him was erected in Cardiff Town Hall in the early twentieth century, reflecting the complex and often conflicting cultural identity Cardiff has as the capital of Wales. However, the town was soon rebuilt on the same street plan and began to flourish once again. This furthermore led to the town gaining a reputation for piracy, which by the Early Modern period led to much dispute between the burgesses of Cardiff and the surrounding county families.
County town of Glamorganshire. It also became part of Kibborhundred. The battle, between a Royalist rebellion and a New Model Army detachment, was a decisive victory for the Parliamentarians and allowed Oliver Cromwell to conquer Wales. In 1. 76. 6, John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute married into the Herbert family and was later created Baron Cardiff.
Despite these improvements, Cardiff's position in the Welsh urban hierarchy had declined over the 1. Iolo Morgannwg called it . He would spend his life building the Cardiff docks and would later be called . Cardiff became the main port for exports of coal from the Cynon, Rhondda, and Rhymney valleys, and grew at a rate of nearly 8. Much of the growth was due to migration from within and outside Wales: in 1. Cardiff's population were English- born and more than 1.
Ireland. Barry docks had the advantage of being accessible in all tides, and David Davies claimed that his venture would cause . From 1. 90. 1 coal exports from Barry surpassed those from Cardiff, but the administration of the coal trade remained centred on Cardiff, in particular its Coal Exchange, where the price of coal on the British market was determined and the first million- pound deal was struck in 1. In subsequent years an increasing number of national institutions were located in the city, including the National Museum of Wales, Welsh National War Memorial, and the University of Wales Registry Building—however, it was denied the National Library of Wales, partly because the library's founder, Sir John Williams, considered Cardiff to have . By 1. 93. 6, their trade was less than half its value in 1. Welsh coal. Caernarfon had also vied for this title. The Encyclopedia of Wales notes that the decision to recognise the city as the capital of Wales . Although the city hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1.
Cardiff only became a centre of national administration with the establishment of the Welsh Office in 1. Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh Development Agency, most of which were based in Cardiff. However, it recovered and was one of the few cities (outside London) where population grew during the 1. Voters elect 7. 5 councillors every four years.
Between the 2. 00. Cardiff County Council. The Liberal Democrats held the largest number of seats and Cllr Rodney Berman was Leader of the Council. The building, known as the Senedd (which translates into English as Legislature, Parliament or Senate) was opened on 1 March 2.
The Queen. Cardiff elects four constituency Assembly Members (AMs) to the Assembly, with the individual constituencies for the Assembly being the same as for the UK Parliament. All of the city's residents have an extra vote for the South Wales Central region which increases proportionality to the Assembly. The most recent Welsh Assembly general election were held on 5 May 2. Several of these have their own community council, while the rest are governed solely by Cardiff City Council. They are: Lisvane.
Old St Mellons. Pentyrch. Radyr and Morganstown. Free Speed Dating on this page. St Fagans. Tongwynlais. Geography. Its geographic features were influential in its development as the world's largest coal port, most notably its proximity and easy access to the coal fields of the south Wales valleys. The highest point in the authority is Garth Hill 3. Cardiff is built on reclaimed marshland on a bed of Triassic stones; this reclaimed marshland stretches from Chepstow to the Ely Estuary.
Triassic landscapes of this part of the world are usually shallow and low- lying which accounts and explains the flatness of the centre of Cardiff. Many of these Triassic rocks have a purple complexion, especially the coastal marl found near Penarth. One of the Triassic rocks used in Cardiff is . Most famously, the buildings of Cathays Park, the civic centre in the centre of the city, are built of Portland stone which was imported from Dorset. The River Taff winds through the centre of the city and together with the River Ely flows into the freshwater lake of Cardiff Bay. A third river, the Rhymney flows through the east of the city entering directly into the Severn Estuary. Cardiff is situated near the Glamorgan.
Heritage Coast, stretching westward from Penarth and Barry—commuter towns of Cardiff—with striped yellow- blue Jurassic limestone cliffs. The Glamorgan coast is the only part of the Celtic Sea that has exposed Jurassic (blue lias) geology. This stretch of coast, which has reefs, sandbanks and serrated cliffs, was a ship graveyard; ships sailing up to Cardiff during the industrial era often never made it as far as Cardiff as many were wrecked around this hostile coastline during west/south- westerly gales. Consequently, smuggling, deliberate shipwrecking and attacks on ships were common. Penylan, which lies to the north east side of Roath Park, is an affluent area popular with those with older children and the retired. To the west lie Ely, Caerau and Fairwater which contain some of the largest housing estates in the United Kingdom. With the exception of some of the outlying privately built estates at Michaelston Super Ely and 1.
Waun- Gron Road, this is an economically disadvantaged area with high numbers of unemployed households. Culverhouse Cross is a more affluent western area of the city. Heath, Birchgrove, Gabalfa, Mynachdy, Llandaff North, Llandaff, Llanishen, Radyr, Whitchurch & Tongwynlais, Rhiwbina, Thornhill, Lisvane and Cyncoed lie in an arc from the north west to the north east of the centre. In particular, Lisvane, Cyncoed, Radyr and Rhiwbina contain some of the most expensive housing in Wales. Further to the east lie the wards of Pontprennau & Old St Mellons, Rumney, Pentwyn, Llanrumney and Trowbridge. The latter three are again largely of public housing stock, although new private housing is being built in Trowbridge in considerable number. Pontprennau is the newest 'suburb' of Cardiff, whilst Old St Mellons has a history going back to the Norman Conquest in the 1.
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