Gwent
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- Kingdom of Gwent, a post-Roman Welsh kingdom or principality which existed in various forms between about the 5th and 11th centuries, although the name continued in use later.
- Gwent (county)Gwent (county)Gwent is a preserved county and a former local government county in south-east Wales. It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, and was named after the ancient Kingdom of Gwent....
, a local authority covering a partially overlapping area which existed between 1974-1996 and continued in use as a preserved county. - A Celtic regionHistory of HampshireHampshire is a county in southern England with some notable archaeology and many notable historic buildings.The chalk downland of the South Downs and southern edges of Salisbury Plain were settled in the neolithic, and these settlers built hill forts such as Winklebury and may have farmed the...
which at one time covered part of modern-day Hampshire.
Science fiction
- An alien spaceship in the 1970s British science-fiction television series Space: 1999Space: 1999Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television series that ran for two seasons and originally aired from 1975 to 1977. In the opening episode, nuclear waste from Earth stored on the Moon's far side explodes in a catastrophic accident on 13 September 1999, knocking the Moon out of orbit and...
. - One of two captains in the comedy science-fiction novel ColonyColony (Rob Grant novel)Colony was the first novel written by Rob Grant outside the Red Dwarf series. First published in 2000 by Viking Press in the United Kingdom it stays within the comedy, science fiction genre. The narrative is set on a spaceship sent on a voyage to colonise another planet, since Earth has been...
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