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Merthyr Tydfil is a town and county borough in the traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales, with a population of about 55,000.

The Romans had arrived in Wales by about 47-53CE and established a network of forts, with roads to link them. They had to fight hard to consolidate their conquests, and in 74 CE they built an auxiliary fortress at Penydarren, overlooking the River Taff (Taf).

It covered an area of about 3 hectares, and formed part of the network of roads and fortifications. A road ran north-south through the area, linking the southern coast with mid-Wales via Brecon. Parts of this and other roads can still be traced and walked on.

The local tribe, known as the Silures, resisted this invasion fiercely from their mountain strongholds, but the Roman armies eventually prevailed. In time, relative peace was established.

The Roman empire eventually disintegrated, and the Penydarren fortress was abandoned by about 120CE. By 402 CE, the army in Britain comprised mostly Germanic troops and local recruits, and the cream of the army had been withdrawn across to the continent of Europe.

By about 408CE, the armies of the Saxons were landing and the locals were left to their own devices to fight off the new Saxon invaders.

Tradition holds that a girl called Tydfil, a daughter of a local chieftain, Brychan, was an early local convert to Christianity, and was pursued by a band of marauding Picts and Saxons.

They supposedly murdered or "martyred" her in about the year 480CE, and on the traditional site of her burial, a church was eventually built.

From the death of Tydfil, Merthyr traditionally dates it's foundation.

Merthyr is situated close to reserves of iron ore, coal, limestone and water, making it an ideal site for ironworks. In the wake of the Industrial revolution, it expanded rapidly.

Small-scale iron working and coal mining had been carried out at some places in South Wales since the Tudor period, but the first significant iron works were set up in 1759 by what became the Dowlais Iron Company.

The demand for iron was fuelled by the railways and by the Royal Navy, who needed cannon for their ships. In 1802, Admiral Lord Nelson visited Merthyr to witness cannon being made.

At its peak, the Dowlais Iron Company operated 18 blast furnaces and employed 7,300 people. By 1857, they had constructed the world's most powerful rolling mill.

Famous in 1831 for being the birth place of the first trade unions, which were illegal and savagely suppressed, were formed shortly after the riots.