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about the lost village of Tryweryn. A Welsh village and one of the last predominantly welsh speaking communities, that was forcibly vacated destroyed, and purposely flooded by the British government in 1965 in order to create a reservoir to provide water for the English city of Liverpool.

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Fun Fact: about the lost village of Tryweryn. A Welsh village and one of the last predominantly welsh speaking communities, that was forcibly vacated destroyed, and purposely flooded by the British government in 1965 in order to create a reservoir to provide water for the English city of Liverpool.

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