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New York. In 1795 Welsh immigrants settled in the village of Remsen, New York where their families flourished as dairy farmers. Numerous stone houses and barns in the region attest to the Welsh heritage. Oneida County and Utica, New York became the cultural center of the Welsh-American community in the 19th century.
Welsh Americans (Welsh: Americanwyr Cymreig) are an American ethnic group whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Wales, United Kingdom. In the 2008 U.S. Census community survey, an estimated 1.98 million Americans had Welsh ancestry, 0.6% of the total U.S. population. This compares with a population of 3 million in Wales.
Ancient Celtic women. Celtic married couple (Wölfnitz-Lendorf, Kärnten) The position of ancient Celtic women in their society cannot be determined with certainty due to the quality of the sources. On the one hand, great female Celts are known from mythology and history; on the other hand, their real status in the male-dominated Celtic tribal ...
The Welsh traditional costume (Welsh: Gwisg Gymreig draddodiadol) was worn by rural women in Wales. It was identified as being different from that worn by the rural women of England by many of the English visitors who toured Wales during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is very likely that what they wore was a survival of a pan ...
Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd (also spelled Madog) was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to the Americas in 1170, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus 's voyage in 1492. According to the story, he was a son of Owain Gwynedd, and took to the sea to flee internecine violence at home.
Metal detectorists stumbled on two pieces of ancient Roman treasure while searching areas of Wales, according to archaeologists. Peter Anning was using a metal detector to scan the countryside in ...
Wales 1246–1282: Owain Goch ap Gruffydd d. 1282 Gwynedd 1246–1255: Dafydd ap Gruffydd b.1238 Wales 1282–1283: Rhodri ap Gruffudd 1230–1315: Llywelyn ap Maredudd d.1263: Tudur Hen d.1311: Maredydd ab Owain: Elen ferch Maelgwn: Gruffydd de la Pole d.1309: Gwenllian of Wales 1282–1337: Llywelyn ap Dafydd 1267–1287: Owain ap Dafydd 1265 ...
Wales as a nation was defined in opposition to later English settlement and incursions into the island of Great Britain. In the early middle ages, the people of Wales continued to think of themselves as Britons, the people of the whole island, but over the course of time one group of these Britons became isolated by the geography of the western peninsula, bounded by the sea and English neighbours.