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Caernarvonshire

American  
[kahr-nahr-vuhn-sheer, -sher] / kɑrˈnɑr vənˌʃɪər, -ʃər /
Or Caernarfonshire

noun

  1. a historic county in Gwynedd, in northwestern Wales.


Caernarvonshire British  
/ kɑːˈnɑːvənˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

  1. (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd

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Among the mountains of Caernarvonshire none are more gloomy and precipitous than the dark sister Glydirs Fawr and Bach.

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Thomas Williams was a native of Caernarvonshire, and received an University education at Oxford. 

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He became rector of Llangelynin, in Caernarvonshire, and prebendary of Brecon. 

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John Evans, an adventurous young man of Caernarvonshire, who, about the year 1790, went to America, with a view of discovering the Welsh Indians, or descendants of Madog and his followers. 

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David Jones of Trevriw, in Caernarvonshire, a poet who flourished from about the year 1750 to 1780. 

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