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Harlech

Harlech is a small town on Cardigan Bay in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, in the old district of Ardudwy. Edward I built Harlech Castle there between 1283 and 1289 after his conquest of Wales. Owain Glyndŵr captured the castle in 1404 and held a parliament there before the English retook it in 1409, and its long Lancastrian defence in the 1460s is remembered in the song 'Men of Harlech'.

Harlech
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Kingdom of DunodingKingdom of GwyneddPrincipality of Wales under Owain Glyndwr

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