Cornwall county has been administered since 2009 by the unitary authority, Cornwall Council. The ceremonial county of Cornwall also includes the Isles of Scilly, which are administered separately. The administrative centre of Cornwall, and its only city, is Truro. Cornwall is the homeland of the Cornish people and the cultural and ethnic origin of the Cornish diaspora. It retains a distinct cultural identity that reflects its unique history, and is recognised as one of the Celtic nations with a rich cultural heritage. It was formerly a Brythonic kingdom and subsequently a royal duchy. The Cornish nationalist movement contests the present constitutional
Hundreds of Cornwall Hundreds of Cornwall The hundreds of Cornwall () were administrative divisions (hundreds) into which Cornwall, the present day administrative county of England, in the United Kingdom, was divided between and 1894, when they were replaced with local government districts Some of the names of the hundreds ended with the suffix "shire" as in Pydarshire, East and West Wivelshire and Powdershire which were first recorded as names between 1184 and 1187. In the Cornish language the word "keverang" ("pl. keverangow") is the equivalent for English "hundred" and the Welsh cantref. The word, in its plural form, appears in place names like