West Wales ( Welsh : Gorllewin Cymru ) is a region of Wales .
3-633: It has various definitions, either covering Pembrokeshire , Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire , which historically comprised the Welsh principality of Deheubarth , and an alternative definition is to include Swansea and Neath Port Talbot , but exclude Ceredigion. The West Wales and the Valleys NUTS area also includes more westerly parts of North Wales as well as the South Wales Valleys . The preserved county of Dyfed covers what
6-536: Is generally considered to be West Wales; between 1974 and 1996, Dyfed was a county , with a county council and six district councils. There are various definitions of "West Wales". There is also a West Wales and the Valleys Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (now International Territorial Level ) statistical region. As well as South West Wales , Mid and West Wales or Mid and South West Wales and North West Wales . Historically,
9-926: The term West Wales was applied to the Kingdom of Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain and the period of the Heptarchy . The Old English word Wealas , a Germanic term for inhabitants of the Western Roman Empire , which the Anglo-Saxons came to apply especially to the Britons , gave its name to Wales and is also the origin of the second syllable in the name Cornwall. 52°26′02″N 4°16′30″W / 52.434°N 4.275°W / 52.434; -4.275 Pembrokeshire Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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