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Newport
Newport is a city as well as unitary authority area in south east Wales, on the River Usk near its confluence with the Severn Estuary, 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Cardiff. At the 2011 census, it was the third largest city in Wales, with a population of 145,700. The city creates part of the Cardiff-Newport city, with a population of 1,097. Newport has actually been a port because middle ages times, when the very first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The community grew out of the earlier Roman community of Caerleon, right away upstream, and obtained its very first charter in 1314. It grew substantially in the 19th century, when its port came to be the focus of coal exports from the eastern South Wales Valleys. Until the increase of Cardiff from the 1850s, Newport was Wales' largest coal-exporting port. Newport was the site of the last large-scale armed insurrection in Britain, the Newport Rising of 1839 led by the Chartists. This was led by the Chartist John Frost which resulted in the re-branding of the Duffryn High School right into John Frost School. In the 20th century, the docks decreased in value, yet Newport continued to be an important manufacturing and also design centre. It was provided city standing in 2002. Newport hosted the Ryder Cup in 2010 and was the place for the 2014 NATO summit.