South Wales (Welsh: De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales
bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. It has a
population of around 2.2 million, almost three-quarters of the whole
of Wales, including 400,000 in Cardiff, 250,000 in Swansea and 150,000
in Newport. Generally considered to include the historic counties of
Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, South Wales extends westwards to include
Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. In the western extent, from Swansea
westwards, local people would probably recognise that they lived in
both south Wales and west Wales. The Brecon Beacons National Park
covers about a third of South Wales, containing Pen y Fan, the highest
British mountain south of Cadair Idris in Snowdonia.Between the
Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284 and the Laws in Wales Act 1535, crown land
in Wales formed the Principality of Wales. This was divided into a
Principality of South Wales and a Principality of North Wales. The
southern principality was made up of the counties of Ceredigion and
Carmarthenshire, areas that had previously been part of the Welsh
kingdom of Deheubarth ('the southern land'). The legal responsibility
for this area lay in the hands of the Justiciar of South Wales based
at Carmarthen. Other parts of southern Wales were in the hands of
various Marcher Lords.The Laws in Wales Acts 1542 created the Court of
Great Sessions in Wales based on four legal circuits. The Brecon
circuit served the counties of Brecknockshire, Radnorshire and
Glamorgan while the Carmarthen circuit served Cardiganshire,
Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Monmouthshire was attached to the
Oxford circuit for judicial purposes. These seven southern counties
were thus differentiated from the six counties of north Wales.The
Court of the Great Sessions came to an end in 1830, but the counties
survived until the Local Government Act 1972 which came into operation
in 1974. The creation of the county of Powys merged one northern
county (Montgomeryshire) with two southern ones (Breconshire and
Radnorshire). South Wales Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter