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Until 1974, Monmouthshire, also formerly known as the County of Monmouth, was an administrative county in the south-east of Wales, on the border with England, and later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. Its area now corresponds approximately to the present principal areas of Monmouthshire, Blaenau Gwent, Newport and Torfaen, and those parts of Caerphilly and Cardiff east of the Rhymney River.
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Dinefwr was one of six local government districts of the county of Dyfed, Wales from 1974 to 1996. It was named after Dinefwr Castle which in the Middle Ages had been the court of the House of Dinefwr and one of the three principal royal courts of Wales with Aberffraw and Shrewsbury.
Lliw Valley was a local government district with borough status in West Glamorgan, Wales from 1974 to 1996.
Taff-Ely was a local government district with borough status in Wales from 1974 to 1996.
Carmarthen District Council was one of six local government districts of the county of Dyfed, west Wales, from 1974 to 1996.
The Borough of Llanelli was one of six local government districts of the county of Dyfed, Wales from 1974 to 1996.
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