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ID: 7008842
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008842
Record Type:
administrative
Cardigan (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 004 40 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -4.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Normans attempted to conquer fortification here, but Welsh were victorious in 1135; first Welsh Eisteddfod (bardic assembly) was sponsored by Lord Rhys in 1176.
Names:
Cardigan
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Aberteifi
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
Wales
(country) (
P
)
................
County of Ceredigion
(unitary authority) (
P
)
....................
Cardigan
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
town grew up around a 12th-cen. castle
town (
C
)
noble seat (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Aberteifi..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 155
Cardigan..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
39
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
339
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 155
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2591781
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
39
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
339
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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