Glamorgan (gbr)

Glamorgan

Glamorgan ranks 10,090th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Covina, California, Shchekino, and Gedera. Memorable people born in Glamorgan include Samson of Dol, and Thomas Button. Glamorgan has been the birth place of many religious figures, and explorers. Glamorgan is located in United Kingdom.

Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, was one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales in the south of Wales. Originally an early medieval petty kingdom of varying boundaries known in Welsh as Morgannwg, which was then invaded and taken over by the Normans as the Lordship of Glamorgan. The area that became known as Glamorgan was both a rural, pastoral area, and a conflict point between the Norman lords and the Welsh princes. It was defined by a large concentration of castles. Read more on Wikipedia