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  2. National symbols of Wales - Wikipedia

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    Cymru am byth" ("Wales forever") is a popular Welsh motto. [26] " Pleidiol Wyf i'm Gwlad" ("I am true to my country"), taken from the National Anthem of Wales, appears on the 2008 Royal Badge of Wales, [27] [28] the Welsh Seal [29] used during the reign of Elizabeth II and on the edge of £1 coins that depict Welsh symbols. [30]

  3. List of Welsh flags - Wikipedia

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    Flag Date Use Description Since 1837: The Royal Standard, used by King Charles III in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: A banner of the King's Arms, the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom, blazoned Quarterly, I and IV Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or; II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules; III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent

  4. Category:National symbols of Wales - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "National symbols of Wales" ... Welsh Memorial Park, Ypres This page was last edited on 4 March 2024, at 21:30 (UTC). Text ...

  5. Flag of Wales - Wikipedia

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    In 1932, the 'Welsh Nationalist Party' (who would later be rebranded as Plaid Cymru) appealed to the Office of Works to replace the Union flag with that of the Welsh flag on Caernarfon castle's Eagle tower on St David's Day. The office ignored them; as a consequence, on March 1, a group of Welsh patriots climbed the towers and hauled the Union ...

  6. Welsh Dragon - Wikipedia

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    The Welsh Dragon (Welsh: y Ddraig Goch, meaning 'the red dragon'; pronounced [ə ˈðraiɡ ˈɡoːχ]) is a heraldic symbol that represents Wales and appears on the national flag of Wales. Ancient leaders of the Celtic Britons that are personified as dragons include Maelgwn Gwynedd , Mynyddog Mwynfawr and Urien Rheged .

  7. Welsh mythology - Wikipedia

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    John T. Koch proposes that the name of the goddess Dôn, for instance, likely comes from ghdhonos, meaning "the earth." In this sense she serves as the Welsh version of the dheghom figure from Proto-Indo-European mythology, i.e. the primordial Earth Goddess from which all other gods originate. According to this theory, the Children of Dôn ...

  8. Royal Badge of Wales - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Badge of Wales was approved in May 2008. It is based on the arms borne by the 13th-century Welsh prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (blazoned quarterly Or and gules, four lions passant guardant counterchanged), with the addition of St Edward's Crown atop a continuous scroll which, together with a wreath consisting of the plant emblems of the four countries of the United Kingdom, surrounds ...

  9. Welsh heraldry - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, [2] the last Welsh Prince of Wales, depicted in the Chronica Majora.. Before the conquest of Gwynedd by Edward I, Wales was ruled by a number of Kings and Princes whose dominions shifted and sometimes merged following the vagaries of war, marriage and inheritance.