Editing Brecon (section)

===Early history===
The [[Welsh language|Welsh]] name, Aberhonddu, means "mouth of the Honddu". It is derived from the [[River Honddu (Powys)|River Honddu]], which meets the [[River Usk]] near the [[town centre]], a short distance away from the River Tarell which enters the Usk a few hundred metres upstream. After the [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]] the original Welsh name of the kingdom in whose territory Brecon stands was (in modern orthography) "[[Brycheiniog]]", which was later [[Anglicisation|anglicised]] to Brecknock or Brecon, and probably derives from [[Brychan]], the eponymous founder of the kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/brychbbg.html|title=Brychan Brycheiniog, King of Brycheiniog|publisher=Early English Kingdoms|access-date=11 June 2022}}</ref>

Before the building of the bridge over the Usk, Brecon was one of the few places where the river could be [[ford (river)|forded]]. In [[Roman Britain]] [[Y Gaer]] (''Cicucium'') was established as a Roman cavalry base for the conquest of [[Wales in the Roman Era|Roman Wales]] and Brecon was first established as a military base.<ref>{{cite web|title=A short guide to Brecon Gaer Roman Fort| url=http://www.cpat.org.uk/educate/guides/brecgaer/brecgaer.htm|publisher=Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust|access-date= 2 February 2013}}</ref>