Caernarfon (English spelling)

Japanese: カーナーボン（英語表記）Caernarfon

Gwynedd is the administrative capital of the northwestern Wales region of the United Kingdom. It was formerly the county capital of the county of Caernarvonshire. It is located on the mainland near the western end of the narrow Menai Strait, which separates the Welsh mainland from the island of Anglesey. The Romans built a fortress on a low hill southeast of the present town in about 75 AD, and called it Segontium. The Normans invaded the town for a short time in the 11th century, but a fort was built there, and the Duke of Gwynedd of Wales later established a manor around the fort. Edward I of England, who conquered Wales in 1282-83, built a large fortress (Caernarvon Castle) around the fort, and built a town surrounded by a defensive wall next to it, making it the capital of North Wales. The town was granted a royal charter in 1284, and developed into one of the most important towns in Wales. In the 19th century, it prospered as a shipping port for slate from the nearby Snowdon Mountains. Today, it is only a small commercial center, but the 13th-century castle and its walls are very well preserved, so it is popular with tourists, especially in the summer. Caernarvon Castle was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986 as one of the "Fortresses of Edward I in Gwynedd". Population: 9,611 (2001).

Carnarvon
Carnarvon

A town in the western part of Western Australia, 981 km north-northwest of Perth. It is located on the northeast shore of Shark Bay at the mouth of the Gascoigne River. It is known for irrigated tropical crops such as bananas and pineapples, and for shrimp fishing. It exports salt. Population 9,038 (1991 estimate).

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Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert

Born June 26, 1866 in Berkshire
[died] April 6, 1923, Cairo British Egyptologist and collector, famous for assisting H. Carter in discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.

Carnarvon
Carnarvon

A town in the south-central part of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, located about 475 km northeast of Cape Town. A key location for rail and road transport, it is also a centre of agriculture and livestock farming. It produces wool, wheat and other grains.

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イギリス，ウェールズ北西部，グウィネズの行政府所在地。旧カーナーボンシャー県の県都。ウェールズ本土とアングルシー島を分ける狭いメナイ海峡西端近くの本土側に位置する。現在の町の南東方にある低い丘に，75年頃ローマ人が要塞を築き，セゴンティウム Segontiumと呼んだ。11世紀のノルマン人の侵入は短期間であったが，このとき砦が築かれ，その後砦を中心にウェールズのグウィネズ公が荘園を設置した。1282～83年にウェールズを征服したイングランドのエドワード1世は砦を中心に大規模な城塞（→カーナーボン城）を築き，これに接して防壁で囲んだ町を建設し，北ウェールズの首都とした。町は 1284年勅許状を与えられ，ウェールズの重要な町の一つに発展，19世紀には近くのスノードン山地に産するスレートの積出港として繁栄した。現在は小さな商業中心地にすぎないが，13世紀の城とその壁がきわめてよく保存されているため，夏季を中心に観光客が多い。カーナーボン城は 1986年，「グウィネズ地方のエドワード1世ゆかりの城塞群」の一つとして世界遺産の文化遺産に登録された。人口 9611（2001）。