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  2. History of Wales - Wikipedia

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    The Welsh language was thus formally recognised as a legitimate language in legal and administrative contexts for the first time in English law. [179] The proportion of the Welsh population able to speak the Welsh language was declining, falling from just under 50% in 1901 to 43.5% in 1911 and reaching a low of 18.9% in 1981. It has risen ...

  3. Timeline of Welsh history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Welsh history, comprising important legal and territorial changes, and political events in Wales

  4. List of Welsh historical documents - Wikipedia

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    Welsh history timeline from 447AD to 954AD [3] Late Middle Ages Brut y Tywysogion: 1330: Middle Welsh translation of lost Latin work: Chronicle of the Princes: Continues Welsh history from the end of History Regum Britanniae beginning with the death of Cadwaladr Fendigaid in 682. Ends with a later addition of the period 1282-1332. [2] An ...

  5. Welsh people - Wikipedia

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    The Welsh (Welsh: Cymry) are an ethnic group and nation native to Wales who share a common ancestry, history and culture. [10] Wales is one of the four countries of ...

  6. History of the Welsh language - Wikipedia

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    The Welsh language in documents predating around 1150. [3] The earliest Welsh poetry – that attributed to the Cynfeirdd or 'Early Poets' – is generally considered to date to the Primitive Welsh period. However, much of this poetry was supposedly composed in the Hen Ogledd, raising further questions about the dating of the material and ...

  7. Welsh language - Wikipedia

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    Welsh (Cymraeg [kəmˈraːiɡ] ⓘ or y Gymraeg [ə ɡəmˈraːiɡ]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). [8]

  8. List of rulers in Wales - Wikipedia

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    A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend Up to about A.D. 1000. National Library of Wales. ISBN 0907158730. biography.wales (Dictionary of Welsh Biography) Davies, John (1994). A History of Wales. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140145816. Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6. Lloyd, John ...

  9. Wales - Wikipedia

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    In June 2008, Wales made history by becoming the first nation to be awarded Fairtrade status. [135] The pound sterling is the currency used in Wales. Numerous Welsh banks issued their own banknotes in the 19th century: the last bank to do so closed in 1908. Since then the Bank of England has had a monopoly on the issue of banknotes in Wales. [136]