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Dinas Emrys

Iron Age hillfort and castle probably erected by Prince Llewelyn II to guard the road to the mountain pass of Snowdon
Place castle Q354820

Facts

9 properties

Designation

Instance of
castle, contour fort, archaeological site, Welsh princes' castles[5][6][7]
Heritage designation
scheduled monument, National Monuments of Wales[10][11]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 53.022°, -4.079°[9]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Gwynedd, Beddgelert[2][3]
More facts +4
Located in
Gwynedd, Beddgelert
Coordinates
🗺️ 53.022°, -4.079°
Historic county
Caernarfonshire[12]
OS grid reference
SH60604920[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Cwm-Yr-Ala en Dinas Emrys he דינס אמריס ja ディナス・エムラス ja ディナス・エムリス sv Dinas Emrys Castle
🔖 Identifiers · 9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dinas Emrys Spring 2016.jpg ↗
Atlas of Hillforts ID
1729
Cadw Monument ID
CN018
Coflein ID
95284
Freebase ID
/m/014757
Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID
Welshsites/100
GeoNames ID
6287261
OpenStreetMap node ID
3533978110
SNARC ID
Dent du Géant
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
castle, archaeological site
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Gwynedd, Beddgelert
Country 1
United Kingdom
Heritage designation 1
scheduled monument
Historic county 1
Caernarfonshire
SNARC ID 1
Dent du Géant
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Summary

Dinas Emrys is a castle[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Gwynedd[2], a principal area of Wales[13], in United Kingdom[14], founded in 1996[15] and Beddgelert[3], a community[16], in United Kingdom[17].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk. hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . gatehouse-gazetteer.info. gatehouse-gazetteer.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk. hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . gatehouse-gazetteer.info. gatehouse-gazetteer.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk. hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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