Cardiff, county town of Glamorganshire, S. Wales, on the river Taff, the sea outlet for the mineral wealth and products of the district, a town that has risen more rapidly than any other in the kingdom, having had at the beginning of the century only 2000 inhabitants; it has a university, a number of churches, few of them belonging to the Church of England, and has also three daily papers.
Population (circa 1900) given as 129,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cardan, Jerome * Cardigan, Earl ofLinks here from Chalmers