Rhondda
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Rhon·dda
A municipal borough of southern Wales northwest of Cardiff. Coal mining was particularly important to its economy in the 1920s and 1930s. Population: 59,600.
Rhondda (rŏn'də, Welsh rôn'THə), city (1991 pop. 70,980), Rhondda Cynon Taff, S Wales, on tributaries of the Taff River. Coal mining, once the chief occupation, has disappeared. Light manufacturing and quarrying are the main industries. A mining heritage museum is at Treharris.
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Rhondda Cynon Taf Rotheni 12th cent. ‘(Place on the) River Rhondda’. The river name means ‘noisy one’ (Welsh rhoddni).
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