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Caernarfon is a regal town, network, and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a populace of 9,615. It lies along the A487 street, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, inverse the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor is 8.6 miles toward the north-east, while Snowdonia borders Caernarfon toward the east and south-east. Carnarvon and Caernarvon are Anglicized spellings that were superseded in 1926 and 1974, separately. The towns of Bontnewydd and Caeathro are close by. The town is additionally noted for its high level of local Welsh speakers. Because of this, Welsh is regularly the overwhelming dialect of the town.

Copious regular assets in and around the Menai Strait empowered human home in ancient Britain. The Ordovices, a Celtic clan, lived in the locale amid the period known as Roman Britain. The Roman stronghold Segontium was set up around AD 80 to enslave the Ordovices amid the Roman success of Britain. The Romans possessed the area until the finish of Roman control in Britain in 382, after which Caernarfon turned out to be a piece of the Kingdom of Gwynedd. In the late 11th century, William the Conqueror requested the development of a motte-and-bailey manor at Caernarfon as a major aspect of the Norman attack of Wales. He was unsuccessful, and Wales stayed free until around 1283.

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