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Power Stone 2 Power Stone 2 is a multiplayer fighting game that built on the innovative gameplay introduced by its predecessor, Power Stone. Similar to Super Smash Bros, Power Stone 2 allows the player to choose between multiple characters and use the environment around them.
Power Strike series The Power Strike series is a video game series of vertically scrolling shooters, produced by Compile, for the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear. Except for one title, all of the games are actually localized Aleste games.
Power tool A power tool is a tool powered by an electric motor. The addition of the motor, usually electric but possibly pneumatic or hydraulic, reduces the work required by the operator, and sometimes makes it possible for the operator to do things that are difficult or impossible to do by hand.
Power top Power top refers to both a sexual and hierarchical position in a sexual relationship between men. The "power" in the term refers to the fact that the person is more dominant in non-sexual situations.
Power trio The power trio is a rock and roll band format popularized in the 1960s (see 1960s in music). The traditional power trio has a lineup of guitar, bass and drums, leaving out the rhythm guitar or keyboard often featured in other rock music.
Power Tower (pto) A power tower is a type of mechanical power take-off (or pto) which resides on an auxiliary transmission. It is mounted to the top of an auxiliary transmission (also knows as a brownie or joey box) and its vertical housing has earned it the name power tower.
Power user A power user is a user of a personal computer who can utilize advanced functions and programs which are outside the reach of normal users due to the complexity and advanced knowledge required to perform these tasks. Also: a computer user who seeks and uses products having the most features and the fastest performance.
Power Up Power Up, the "Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up" is an organization with the stated mission "to promote the visibility and integration of gay women in entertainment, the arts, and all forms of media".
Power vacuum A power vacuum is an expression for a political situation that can occur when a government has no identifiable central authority. The metaphor implies that, like a physical vacuum, other forces will tend to "rush in" to fill the vacuum as soon as it is created, perhaps in the form of an armed militia, military coup, warlord or dictator.
Power window Power windows or electric windows are automobile windows which can be raised and lowered by depressing a button or switch, as opposed to using a hand-turned crank handle. The power moonroof, a transparent, retractable sunroof, may be considered as an extension of the power window concept.
Power word A power word (or power phrase) is a word (or a phrase) that is used to make one's statement stronger. It is a form of a loaded language and is an antonym of euphemism; however, it is not always the same thing as either a dysphemism or a cacophemism which imply the use of harsh or vulgar words.
Power Without Glory Power Without Glory is a 1950 novel written by Australian writer and Communist Frank Hardy. The work was originally self-published, and later adapted into a mini-series by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (1976).
Power-line internet Power-line internet is a new service still in its infancy that may eventually permit broadband Internet data to travel down standard high-voltage power lines. However, the system has a number of complex issues, the primary one being that power lines are inherently a very noisy environment.
Power-on reset A power-on reset (PoR) generator is a microcontroller or microprocessor peripheral that generates a reset signal when power is applied to the device. It ensures that the device starts operating in a known state.
Power-on-LAN Power-On-LAN is an additional feature that the LAN controller provides. Power-On-LAN allows you the ability to power up a system remotely through the LAN by sending special LAN packets to the system to be powered on.
Power-to-weight ratio This term, although still in common use, is a misnomer since it incorrectly uses the term "weight", when clearly "mass" is the correct word since "weight" refers to the force by which a body of mass with a gravitational pull attracts an object and this is measured in newtons, not kilograms. The discussion that follows should therefore refer to "Power-to-mass ratio".
Power-up In computer and video games, power-ups are objects that instantly benefit or add extra abilities to the game character. This is contrast to an item, which may or may not have a benefit and can be used at a time chosen by the player.
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (ISBN 0-7440-0424-1) is a 2005 book by Chris Kohler. It explores the video game market in Japan and the history of video games in both Japan and North America, and argues that Japan’s role in the history of video games in America is undervalued.
Powerade Powerade (or POWERADE, as stylized on logos) is a sports drink by The Coca-Cola Company and currently number two in the sports drink market worldwide. It was first introduced in 1988, starting in soda fountains.
Powerade Centre The Powerade Centre (formerly the Brampton Centre for Sports & Entertainment) is a 4,980-seat multi-purpose arena in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It was built in 1998, and officially opened the same year on October 7.
PowerAnimator PowerAnimator and Animator, also referred to simply as "Alias", the precursor to what is now Maya and StudioTools, was an expensive, complex, highly-integrated industrial 3D modeling, animation, and visual effects suite. It was the most widely used non-proprietary software in the visual effects and animation industries, and as such, it has had a long track record, starting with Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1990 and ending in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 1999.
Powerback Powerback is used by aircraft to reverse using the power of their engines, In Europe only propeller aircraft tend to use powerbacks as a means of reversing, while in the USA some larger jet aircraft also perform powerback.
Powerball (Australia) Powerball is a lottery operated by NSW Lotteries in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Tattersalls in Victoria and Tasmania, Golden Casket in Queensland, South Australia Lotteries Commission for South Australia and Lotterywest in Western Australia.
Powerball (exercise tool) Powerball is the common name for gyro exercisers as the Dynabee gyroscopic grip-strengthening exercise device, which was originally produced by Dynabee from Variety Plastics in the USA: minor later extra patents for the Powerball, as its extra features like rev counter and the light-emitting diodes powered by a little generator embedded in the gyroscope are held by DynaFlex and NanoSecond companies. It is a gyroscopic toy sold commercially as a wrist exerciser device or as powerball.
Powerboating Power boating describes activities performed in a motorized boat. Generally a power boat has a high power to weight ratio and a hull design that allows for easy planing which allows for higher rates of speed and improved handling.
PowerBook 1400 The PowerBook 1400 (codename "Epic") was a notebook designed and sold by Apple Computer in the mid- to late 1990s as part of their PowerBook series of Macintosh computers. It was introduced in November 1996, the first new PowerBook since the ill-fated PowerBook 5300, and what became Apple's low-end notebook when the more luxurious PowerBook 3400 was introduced in February 1997.
PowerBook 190 The PowerBook 190 and its companion PowerBook 190cs are laptop computers manufactured by Apple Computer as part of their PowerBook brand, introduced to the market in August 1995. The two models differ only in their screen: The 190 had a 9.
PowerBook 2400c The PowerBook 2400c (codenames: "Comet", "Nautilus") is a subnotebook in Apple Computer's PowerBook range of Macintosh computers. It was designed and sold by Apple, but the manufacturer actually was IBM.
PowerBook 3400c The PowerBook 3400c (often called just "3400") was a laptop computer in the PowerBook line manufactured by Apple Computer from February to November 1997. It was, briefly, the fastest laptop in the world macopinion.
PowerBook 500 series The PowerBook 500 series (codenamed Blackbird) was a range of Apple Macintosh PowerBook portable computers first introduced by Apple Computer with the 520 model on 16 May 1994. The 500 series was the first computer to use a trackpad instead of a trackball as a built-in pointing device.
PowerBook 5300 The PowerBook 5300 series was the first generation of PowerBook laptops manufactured by Apple Computer to use the PowerPC processor. They were released in August of 1995, and even though they had some desirable characteristics, they are commonly regarded as one of the worst Apple products of all time due to a series of severe problems with the first units produced.
PowerBuilder PowerBuilder, sometimes abbreviated PB, is a computer application development system created by Powersoft, which was later purchased by Sybase. Touted as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) system, it includes tools for drawing the user interface and reports, and accessing database content.
Powercomm Powercomm, headquartered in Seoul and Busan, is a Korean telecommunications company and one of the largest providers of high-speed broadband Internet access in South Korea. The company also is one of the largest telephone companies in South Korea, one of only two companies licensed to provide local telephone access.
PowerCD Apple PowerCD was a US$499 CD player first sold by Apple Computer in 1993 and discontinued several years later. It was a re-badged Philips-designed product which was sold in addition to Apple's speakers and also included a remote control.
PowerCity Power City is the leading Irish electrical retailer of consumer & electronic goods with branches in Blanchardstown, Finglas, Tallaght, Finglas, Fonthill, Sallynoggin & Bray. In July 2006 a new store, the second outside Dublin, was opened in Drogheda.
PowerCon The PowerCon is a connector manufactured by Neutrik for connecting mains power to equipment in a small space. It looks and works similar to the Speakon with the line connector inserted in the chassis connector and twisted to make contact.
Powered Coaster A Powered Coaster is a roller coaster which relies on a motor in the train to complete the course, often replacing a traditional chain lift hill. This allows for both compact layouts that start out with curving hills, or long, extended layouts that would need too many lifts to be feasible.
Powered hang glider A foot-launched powered hang glider (FLPHG), also called 'powered harness', 'nanolight' or 'hangmotor', is a powered hang glider harness with a motor and propeller in pusher configuration. An ordinary hang glider is used for the wing and the pilot can foot-launch from a hill or from flat ground, needing an area of about the size of a football field to get airborne, much less if there's oncoming breeze and absence of obstacles.
Powered paragliding Powered Paragliding, also known as paramotoring, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a small motor on his/her back (a paramotor) and runs into the air with lift from a paraglider wing. In many countries, including the United States, it is minimally regulated and requires no license.
Powerex Powerex Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of BC Hydro, is a leading marketer of wholesale energy products and services in western Canada and the western US, and a growing niche player in other markets across North America.
Powerful class cruiser The Powerful class were armoured cruisers built for the British Royal Navy in the 1890's. They were designed for hunting hunting down commerce raiders such as the Russian armoured cruiser Rurik and numerous French armoured cruisers of the era.
Powerful number A powerful number is a positive integer m that for every prime number p dividing m, p2 also divides m. Equivalently, a powerful number is the product of a square and a cube, that is, a number m of the form m = a2b3.
Powerful Owl The Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) is a species of owl native to south-eastern and eastern Australia. It is found in coastal areas, the Great Dividing Range no more than 200 km inland and is know to frequent Tong's pad.
PowerFlite PowerFlite was the name of a two speed automatic transmission produced by the Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler was the last of Detroit's Big Three automakers to introduce a fully automatic transmission, some 14 years after General Motors had introduced Oldsmobile's Hydramatic automatic transmission and nearly three years after Ford's Ford-O-Matic.
Powergen National Trophy The Powergen National Trophy is a new competition for of the 118 clubs of the Rugby Football Union from National Division One and below. Previously these teams had played in the Powergen Cup, but are now excluded from that cup under a new format adopted for the 2005/06 season and beyond.
Powerglide The Powerglide is a two speed automatic transmission designed by General Motors. It was available primarily on Chevrolet automobiles from 1950 through the early 1970s, although a few Pontiac models in the 1950s also used this automatic transmission.
Powerhead The terms powerhead, bang stick, and shark stick refer to specialized firearms intended to be used underwater and fire in direct contact with the target. These are often used for spear fishing, or they may be used against sharks or alligators for sport, defense, or to kill nuisance animals.
Powerhouse Museum The Powerhouse Museum the museum of science and technology in Sydney. It has existed in various guises for 125 years, and is home to some 400,000 artifacts, many of which are housed in the site it has occupied since 1988, and for which it is named — a converted electric tram energy generating station in the Inner West suburb of Ultimo, originally constructed in 1902.
PowerHockey PowerHockey is a competitive, fast paced hockey program for any disabled person male or female requiring the use of an electric (power) wheelchair in daily life, It uses the same rules as Ice Hockey (with some changes and adaptions) to supply those who use an electric wheelchair with the opportunity to play hockey and to be active in a competitive team setting.
Poweriser Powerbocking is the act of jumping, much like parkour, with elastic-like Spring Loaded Stilts. As an extreme sport, it is likened on, by much of the younger generation, as a thrill seeking sport, however it can be artistic.
PowerJet SaM146 The PowerJet SaM146 (Двигатель SaM146) is an engine produced by the PowerJet joint venture between Snecma and NPO Saturn."Franco-Russian Venture Will Seek To Evolve Into World-Class Engine Player", Aviation Week & Space Technology, August 1, 2004.
Powerless (Say What You Want) "Powerless (Say What You Want)" is a pop song written by Nelly Furtado and Anne Dudley, Gerald Eaton, Trevor Horn, Malcolm McLaren and Brian West for Furtado's second studio album Folklore (2003). It was produced by Track & Field and received a positive reception from music critics.
Powerlet A powerlet is a small disposable metal container holding 12 grams of liquid CO2 and often a small quantity of oil, used as a power source for certain air guns, paintball markers, and a few airsoft guns. Originally developed by Crosman and introduced to the market in 1954, the powerlet has become the dominant source of power for inexpensive, rapid fire air guns from many manufacturers.
Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport, consisting of three events: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift. The maximum weight lifted in each event is totalled for a final score; lifters compete in bodyweight classes.
Powerlifting at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Powerlifting at the 2004 Summer Paralympics did not have disability categories. There was a requirement for a minimum level of physical disbility, which may be caused by amputation, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries or various other specified conditions.
Powerline Ekibastuz-Kokshetau The Powerline Ekibastuz-Kokshetau is the powerline designed for the highest transmission voltage (1150 kV) in the world. It was constructed and entered service in the Soviet time (1988) This powerline, carrying the number 1101, runs 268 miles (432 km) from Ekibastusz] to Kokshetau in [[Kazakhstan.
Powermasters Powermasters were a sub-group within the Transformers toyline in 1988. They were defined by the inclusion of a miniature figure which "unlocked the secret of the transformation" - in other words, the toy could not transform from vehicle mode to robot mode unless the figure was transformed into engine mode and connected to the larger figure.
Powerplant (album) Powerplant is the 6th full-length album from the German power metal band, Gamma Ray. The album was initially released in 1999, but was re-released along with most of the band's past catalogue in 2003 with bonus tracks and new covers.
Powerplay (cricket) A Powerplay is a new rule concerning fielding restrictions in one-day international (ODI) cricket. In the past, there was a 15-over period at the start of an innings when only two fielders were allowed outside the 30-yard circle.
Powerplay Cruiser The Powerplay Cruiser was a joystick released in the early 1990s, during the time that the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga were both popular home computers. It was compatible with many 8-bit and 16-bit machines, and boasted many features that were considered high end at the time:
PowerPC PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well.
PowerPC 400 The PowerPC 400 family is a line of 32-bit embedded RISC-processor cores built using Power Architecture technology. The cores are designed to fit inside specialiced applications ranging from System-on-a-chip (SoC) microcontrollers, network appliances, Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to set-top boxes, storage devices and supercomputers.
PowerPC 600 The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC processors built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and staffed by engineers from IBM and Motorola as a part of the AIM alliance.
PowerPC G3 PowerPC G3 is a designation used by Apple Computer to a third generation of PowerPC microprocessors from the PowerPC 750 family designed and manufactured by IBM and Motorola/Freescale. The term is often, incorrectly, imagined to be a physical model of processor when in fact a number of processors from different vendors have been used.
PowerPC G4 PowerPC G4 is a designation used by Apple Computer to describe a fourth generation of PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various different (though closely related) processor models from Freescale, a former part of Motorola.
PowerPC Reference Platform PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP) was a PowerPC hardware reference design developed at the same time as the PowerPC architecture itself. It allowed hardware vendors to build a machine that could run various operating systems, especially Mac OS, Windows NT and various flavors of Unix, notably Solaris and AIX.
PowerPlant PowerPlant is an object-oriented GUI toolkit, application framework and set of class libraries for Mac OS, created by Metrowerks. The framework was fairly popular at the height of the Classic Mac OS era, and was primarily used with CodeWarrior.
PowerPlay (technology) PowerPlay was a technological initiative headed by Valve Software and Cisco Systems to decrease the latency for online computer games. Gabe Newell, managing director of Valve Software announced the project in January 2000 and after 12 months the project was quietly abandoned.
PowerPoint animation PowerPoint animation is a form of animation which involves in using Microsoft PowerPoint and similar programs to create a game or movie. The animator uses Custom Animation, drawing tools and slides within PowerPoint, to make a game or movie.
PowerQUICC PowerQUICC is the name for several Power Architecture based microcontrollers from Freescale Semiconductor. They are built around one or more PowerPC cores and the QUICC Engine which is a separate RISC core specialized is such tasks such as I/O, communications, ATM, security acceleration, networking and USB.
Powers (comics) Powers is a comic book series by writer Brian Michael Bendis, artist Michael Avon Oeming. It was originally published through Image Comics beginning in 2000, but in 2004 it moved to Marvel Comics, where the series launched Marvel's Icon Comics division for creator-owned titles.
Powers and abilities of Superman The DC Comics character Superman possesses extraordinary powers which render him, as stated in the lead-in to the 1950s Adventures of Superman television series, able to "leap 1/8th of a mile; hurdle a twenty-story building... raise tremendous weights...
Powers Accounting Machine Company Powers Accounting Machine Company (also known as Powers Tabulating Machine Company) was an early 20th century tabulating machine company. It was founded in 1911 in Newark, New Jersey and moved in 1914 to Brooklyn.
Powers Auditorium Powers Auditorium, in Youngstown, Ohio is the largest auditorium in the Youngstown-Warren area, the main venue of downtown Youngstown's DeYor Performing Arts Center (also part of the complex are the Adler Art Academy and Beecher Flad Pavilion and Ford Family Recital Hall). Its main tenant is the Youngstown Symphony, who performs from October through May.
Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 The Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 is a consolidation Act of the United Kingdom Parliament that brings together parts of several other Acts dealing with the sentencing treatment of offenders and defaulters. It was recommended by the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.
Powers of Ten Powers of Ten is a 1977 short documentary film written and directed by Charles Eames and his wife, Ray. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude).
Powers-Samas Powers-Samas was a British company which sold punched card equipment. The company was in competition with the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM), with which it eventually merged in 1959 to form International Computers and Tabulators (ICT).
Powerscourt Golf Club Powerscourt Golf Club, located at the Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow, Ireland, is home to two par 72, 18-hole courses: the East, which was created first, and the West. Both contain fast greens and hilly fairways, and they are each over 6,900 yards long.
Powerset construction In the theory of computation, the powerset construction is a standard method for converting a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) into a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) which recognizes the same formal language. It is important in theory because it establishes that NFAs, despite their additional flexibility, are unable to recognize any language that cannot be recognized by some DFA.
Powertrack Powertrack is a brandname for Matchbox's foray into toy slot cars, introduced in the late 70's Powertrack featured cars that could be seen in the dark as the cars had headlights. Matchbox's slot cars were smaller and had decals which differed completely from Scalextric.
Powertrain In a vehicle, the term drivetrain or powertrain refers to the group of components that generate power and deliver it to the road surface, water, or air. This includes the engine, transmission, driveshafts, differentials, and the final drive (drive wheels, caterpillar track, propeller, etc).
PowerTech PowerTech Information Systems (PowerTech) is a Norwegian telecommunications operator established in 1993 by founders Øystein Homelien, Harald Paulsen, Lars Nøring and Henrik Dramstad, of whom all were teenagers at the time.
PowerVR PowerVR is a division of Imagination Technologies (formerly VideoLogic) and is also their brand of 3D accelerators which is the most popular choice for portable 3D devices, but is no longer available in desktop PCs. However as of July 2006 they are preparing to reintroduce desktop and portable PowerVR cores.
Powerwall A Powerwall is the generic term for large, non-tiled high-resolution display walls used for projecting large computer generated images. These size of the wall displays can range in size from six to over forty feet (currently in existence) in width and potentially even larger.
Powerware (Eaton Powerware) Powerware is an Eaton Corporation brand for power quality related products such as uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and surge protection, ranging from protection of single computers (PCs) to industrial power backup systems. The brand also includes DC power solutions for IT and telecommunications applications ranging from small customer-premises equipment to the largest telephone exchanges and switching centers.
PoweR Girls PoweR Girls was a reality TV series about press maven Lizzie Grubman mentoring a team of young hopeful publicists as they work their way in the world of celebrities, glamour and public relations to ultimately earn a permanent spot on Grubman's team (along with her respect). The show debuted on MTV on March 10, 2005, to a lukewarm response from critics.
Powhatan The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten), or Powhatan Renape (literally, the "Powhatan Human Beings"), is the name of a Native American tribe, and also the name of a powerful confederacy of tribes that they dominated. They spoke an Algonquian language, and lived in what is now Virginia at the time of the first English-Native encounters.
Powhatan Ellis Powhatan Ellis (January 17, 1790 - March 18, 1863) was a United States Senator from Mississippi. Born at "Red Hill" in Amherst County, Virginia, he graduated from Washington Academy (now Washington and Lee University) in 1809, attended Dickinson College Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1809 and 1810, and studied law at William and Mary College in 1813 and 1814.
Powhatan language The Powhatan language, also known as Virginia Algonquian, is an extinct language spoken by the Powhatan people of tidewater Virginia in the late 16th and early 17th century. It was the first language of Wahunsonacock and Pocahontas.
Powhatan's Chimney Powhatan's Chimney is located at Werowocomoco, which was located on the north side of the York River about 25 miles from where the river divided at West Point, Virginia, according to Captain John Smith. This places it at present day Wicomoco, in Gloucester County.
Powhite Creek Powhite Creek is located near the unincorporated community of Bon Air in Chesterfield County and flows into the independent city of Richmond in central Virginia. The creek empties into the James River in the region of the fall line, where the rapids of the river are located upstream from the head of navigation.
Powiat A county (Polish: powiat, pronounced "povyat"; plural, powiaty) is the Polish third-level unit of administration, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (NUTS-4 or rather LAU-1) in other countries. A county is part of a larger unit called a "voivodship" (in Polish, województwo—an entity whose equivalent in most other countries is rendered in English as "province"), and in turn usually comprises several communes, each called a gmina (plural: gminy).
Powick Powick is a Worcestershire village two miles south of Worcester and four miles north of Great Malvern, close to the River Teme. The bridge across the Teme at Powick was the scene of a skirmish between Royalist and Roundhead soldiers in the English civil war.
Powick Hospital Formerly the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, Powick Hospital was founded in 1847 under the supervision of architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in the August of 1852.
Powis Castle Powis Castle is a medieval castle located near the town of Welshpool, in Powys, traditional county of Montgomeryshire, mid Wales. It is the residence of the Earl of Powis and is known for its extensive, attractive gardens.
Powow River Poets The Powow River Poets are a group of primarily New Formalist poets and translators founded in 1990 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The group has been led for most of that time by a Dominican-American poet, Rhina Espaillat.
Powstanie Warszawskie (album) Powstanie Warszawskie (Polish for "Warsaw Uprising") is a second studio album released in March of 2005 by Polish band Lao Che. It consists of 10 songs illustrating the course of 1944 uprising in Warsaw, Poland.
Powys County Council Powys County Council () is the governing body for Powys, one of the Principal areas of Wales. It has three shire committees — one for each of Brecknockshire, Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire to which the council delegates its functions.
Powys Fadog Powys Fadog or Powys Maelor was the northern portion of the former princely realm of Powys which split in two following the death of Madog ap Maredudd of Powys in 1160. The realm was divided under Welsh Law, with Madog's nephew Owain Cyfeiliog inheriting the south (see Powys Wenwynwyn) and his son Gruffydd Maelor I who inherited the north.
Powys Wenwynwyn Powys Wenwynwwyn or Powys Cyfeiliog was the southern portion of the former princely state of Powys which split following the death of Madog ap Maredudd of Powys in 1160. The realm had been split, with the northern portion (Maelor) going to Gruffydd Maelor I and becoming known, eventually, as Powys Fadog and the southern portion (Cyfeiliog) going to Owain Cyfeiliog and becoming known, eventually, as Powys Wenwynwyn after Prince Gwenwynwyn ab Owain, its second ruler.

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