Wales

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• Wales

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The Map of Wales
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General Facts

• Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
  Northern Ireland.
• Area 20,760 sq km (8,015 sq miles)
• Population 2,798,200
• Languages English (100), Welsh (20)
• Capital City Cardiff
• National Motto Cymru am Byth ("Wales for Ever")

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History of Wales

• The history of Wales begins with the arrival
  of Human beings in the region thousands of years
  ago. Neanderthals lived in what is now Wales,
  or Cymru in walsh, at least 230,000 years
  ago.Homo sapeins  had arrived by about 31,000 BC.
  However, continuous habitation by modern humans
  dates from the period after the end of the last
  ice age around 9000 BC, and Wales has many
  remains from the Mesolithic, Neolithic,
  and Bronze Agethe Deceangli.
• Wales came into existence as a country with Henry
  the VIIIs Act of Union in 1536.
• The origin of the word Wales is a strange one. It
  is a variation on a common word used hundreds of
  years ago by the Anglo-Saxons to mean foreigners
  or outsiders. Independent Principality 1400-1416.
• Constituent of Kingdom of Great Britain
  (1707-1801) and United Kingdom (from 1801).

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Wales in the Roman era

• The Roman conquest of Wales began in AD 48 and
  was completed in 78, with Roman rule lasting
  until 383. Roman rule in Wales was a military
  occupation, save for the southern coastal region
  of south wales east of the Gower peninsula, where
  there is a legacy of Romanisation.The only town
  in Wales founded by the Romans, Caerwent, is
  located in South Wales. Both Caerwent
  and carmarthen, also in southern Wales, would
  become Roman civitates.During the occupation
  both the region that would become Wales and its
  people were a mostly anonymous part of Roman.
• By AD 47 Rome had invaded and conquered all of
  southernmost and southeastern Britain under the
  first Roman Governor of Britain. As part of the
  Roman conquest of Britain, a series of campaigns
  to conquer Wales was launched by his successor in
  48 and would continue intermittently under
  successive governors until the conquest was
  completed in 78. It is these campaigns of
  conquest that are the most widely known feature
  of Wales during the Roman era .

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Modern history

• The modern history of Wales starts in the 19th
  century when South Wales became heavily
  industrialized with ironworks this, along with
  the spread of coal mining to the Cynon
  and Rhhodda valleys from the 1840s, led to an
  increase in population. The social effects of
  industrialization resulted in armed uprisings
  against the mainly English owners.
• The first decade of the 20th century was the
  period of the coal boom in South Wales, when
  population growth exceeded 20 per cent.
  Demographic changes affected the language
  frontier the proportion of Welsh speakers in the
  Rhondda valley fell from 64 per cent in 1901 to
  55 per cent ten years later, and similar trends
  were evident elsewhere in South Wales. The labour
  party  replaced the Liberals as the dominant
  party in Wales after the First world war
  particularly in the industrial valleys of south
  wales.

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Symbols

• The Red Dragon of Wales was introduced to Britain
  by the Romans some eighteen hundred years ago.
• St. David is the patron saint of Wales.
• The leek is the emblem of Wales since the 16th
  century.
• The daffodil is a Welsh national emblem.

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The Welsh Flag

• The origins of the Red Dragon flag, or "y Draig
  Goch" could date back to the Roman period.
• The dragon was used by Roman military.
• After the Romans left, the Red Dragon remained as
  a key emblem of Wales.

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Language

• Belongs to a branch of Celtic, an Indo-European
  language.
• Their language is a distant cousin to Irish and
  Scots Gaelic and a close brother to Breton.
• Welsh is still used by about half a million
  people within Wales and possibly another few
  hundred thousand in England and other areas
  overseas.
• English 100, Welsh 20.

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Seven Wonders of Wales
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Mountain

• Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales and the
  highest British mountain outside Scotland. The
  mountain is located inside the Snowdon National
  Park in the north of Wales a popular tourist
  site for hikers. It is 1085 meters high and its
  name derives from the Saxon Snow Dun which can be
  translated as Snow Hill.

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Bells

• The Gresford Bells belong to All Saints Church
  in the old mining village of Gresford near
  Wrexham. The church dates back to 1492 and was
  built using a distinctive sandy brown coloured
  stone called Millstone Grit. The stone used to be
  mined locally and has been used in most of the
  areas construction.

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Bridge

• Wales is a land of mountains, valleys and
  bridges. The most famous bridge is the Llangollen
  Bridge built in 1347 over the River Dee.
  Llangollen is in north Wales and is also famous
  for the International Eisteddfod an annual music
  festival that has been going strong since 1947.

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Well

• At Holywell a small village in Flintshire, North
  Wales, you can visit Saint Winifredes well a
  holy well with water that is said to have
  miraculous cures. Christians believe that it was
  on the site of this well where Saint Winifredes
  decapitated head was miraculously attached once
  more to her body. Many religious pilgrims
  continue to visit the well on a regular basis.

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Church steeple

• The steeple, or tower, of Saint Giless Anglican
  Church in Wrexham is considered the fifth Wonder
  of Wales. The design of the tower at Yale
  University in the U.S.A was based on the one at
  Saint Giless because the universitys
  benefactor, Elihu Yale, had Welsh ancestry and is
  actually buried in the grounds of the church.

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Trees

• At another church, the Church of Saint Mary the
  Virgin, in Overton-on-Dee, the yew trees growing
  in the garden are Waless sixth wonder. The
  oldest trees predate the church itself. They are
  thought to be around 2000 years old.

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Waterfall

• the Pistyll Rhaeadr waterfall in the Berwyn
  Mountains is the seventh wonder of Wales. It is
  formed by the Afon Disgynfa river flowing over a
  75 metre cliff face and is sometimes called The
  hidden pearl of Wales. This is another popular
  place for tourists to Wales

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The popular rhyme of seven wonders
Pistyll Rhaeadr and Wrexham steeple, Snowdons
mountain without its people, Overton yew trees,
ST Winefride wells, Llangollen bridge and
Gresford bells
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Summarise

• Wales is a land of beautiful nature, rich
  culture and amazing architecture.

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