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Silures ... Tribe: Silures Capital: V ENTA S ILVRVM Location: Caerwent, Gwent. Extent: The Glamorgans, Gwent & perhaps S.
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The Silures were a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying approximately the counties of Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Glamorganshire in south Wales.
Romans in Britain - The Silures tribe
Information on the Silures tribe ... Location of the tribe The south east of Wales. Background information The tribal name Silures, may itself be one given to the tribes by the ...

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Silures, people of ancient Britain inhabiting what today is south-eastern Wales. A powerful and warlike tribe, they offered fierce resistance to the Roman force that invaded their territory in ad 48 but were finally conquered in 78, after the Romans established a legionary fortress at Isca, modern Caerleon. The chief town of the Silures was Romanized as Venta Silurum, the modern Caerwent, near the Severn estuary, east of Newport.