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Rhondda (rŏn`də, Welsh rôn`thə), city (1991 pop. 70,980), Rhondda Cynon Taff, S Wales, on tributaries of the Taff River. Coal mining, once the chief occupation, has disappeared. Light manufacturing and quarrying are the main industries. A mining heritage museum is at Treharris. Rhondda an urban area in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough on two branches of the Rhondda Valley: developed into a major coal-mining centre after 1807 and grew to a population of 167 900 in 1924: the last coal mine closed in 1990. Pop.: 59 947 (1991) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 14) Yet, as Mike Savage suggests, class cultures have often been regional cultures--and why should this not be true of the many and varied regional cultures of late medieval and early modern England, just as it is demonstrably true of (for instance) An-dalucian wage labourers, Rhondda miners, Catalan textile workers or Parisian proletarians in the modern epoch? Our present study arose from health concerns expressed by residents that chemicals emitted from a single landfill site in the Rhondda Valley, Wales, were the cause of congenital anomalies. `For the first time in centuries we will have some little governance of our own affairs,' says Glyn James, a former Mayor of the Rhondda. |
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