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  2. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any ...

  3. Cymru - Wikipedia

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    In 2024, a petition called for the prohibition of the name "Wales" and for the Welsh name Cymru to be the only name. The petition had gained 5,400 signatures by 4 January 2024, [28] [14] and over 10,000 by 15 January, meeting the threshold for a Senedd debate. [29] [30] A counter-petition was launched afterwards. [31]

  4. Wales - Wikipedia

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    Wales-based regional daily newspapers include the Daily Post (which covers North Wales), the South Wales Evening Post (Swansea), the South Wales Echo (Cardiff), and the South Wales Argus (Newport). [301] Y Cymro is a Welsh-language newspaper, published weekly. [302] Wales on Sunday is the only Welsh Sunday newspaper that covers the whole of ...

  5. Cambria - Wikipedia

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    The popular song "Wrexham is the Name" is sung by fans of Wrexham AFC and follows the same tune. The dialogue in Shakespeare's Cymbeline uses "Cambria" rather than "Wales" throughout. Once the name used for most of upland Wales, the term Cambrian Mountains is now more localised and includes the area from Pumlumon down to Mynydd Mallaen.

  6. Etymology of Wales - Wikipedia

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    The English words "Wales" and "Welsh" derive from the same Old English root (singular Wealh, plural Wēalas), a descendant of Proto-Germanic *Walhaz, which was itself derived from the name of the Gaulish people known to the Romans as Volcae and which came to refer indiscriminately to inhabitants of the Western Roman Empire. [1]

  7. List of Latin place names in Britain - Wikipedia

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    Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place — for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. During the Middle Ages, these were often shortened to just Colonia. One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne (from French, German Köln).

  8. Welsh place names in other countries - Wikipedia

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    New South Wales - Captain James Cook originally called it 'New Wales', later adding the 'South'. [1] Aberdare; Aberglasslyn - likely corruption of Aberglaslyn; Abermain; Allynbrook - from River Alyn; Bangor - named after the birthplace of the landowner. Cardiff - name suggested by a Welsh settler in 1889. Llanarth - suburb of Bathurst, from ...

  9. List of country names in various languages (D–I) - Wikipedia

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    Each English name is followed by its most common equivalents in other languages, listed in English alphabetical order (ignoring accents) by name and by language. Historical and/or alternative versions, where included, are noted as such. Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents are also listed.