History of Wales

thumb|The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

thumb|The River Teith|River Teifi, West WalesThe two men are John Davies (forefront) and Will Davies of [[Cenarth; the last two legitimate coracle fishermen in Cenarth.They are both using the single-arm method of propulsion; a means of gliding downstream in a controlled way. They carry their coracles and their fish home on their backs. (1972)]] A coracle is a small, rounded, lightweight boat traditionally used in Wales, Ireland, particularly on the River Boyne, and Scotland, particularly on the River Spey. The word is also used for similar boats found in India, Vietnam, Iraq, and Tibet. The w

border region between Wales and England

Protestant Christians in Wales and England who did not follow the Church of England

Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, . The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity) or the early medieval period. After the Anglo-Saxon settlement of much of Britain, a territorial distinction developed between the new Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (which would become England and Southern Scotland) and the remaining Celtic British kingdoms (which would become Wales and, before their absorption into England and Scotland, Cornwall to the south and Strathclyde or Hen Ogledd to the north). L

200px|thumb|Brass replica of the Tjurkö bracteates|Tjurkö bracteate showing the word ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᚲᚢᚱᚾᛖ walhakurne ('Roman grain', i.e. gold coin) 200px|thumb|Map of Walhaz-derived exonym variants for Romance speakers '*Walhaz''''' is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic word meaning 'foreigner', or more specifically 'Roman', 'Romance-speaker' or '(romanised) Celt', and survives in the English words of 'Wales/Welsh' and 'Cornwall'. The term was used by the ancient Germanic peoples to describe inhabitants of the former Roman Empire, who were largely romanised and spoke Latin languages ( in Old Norse). The ad

device to stigmatise and punish children for speaking Welsh rather than English in schools

Segontium () is a Roman fort on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, North Wales.

Welsh uprising against English rule, 1400–1415

grade I listed building in Ceredigion

aspect of Welsh history

thumb|250px|right|Post-Roman Welsh kingdoms or tribes. The modern border between Wales and England is shown in purple. Pengwern was a Brythonic settlement of sub-Roman Britain situated in what is now the English county of Shropshire, adjoining the modern Welsh border. It is regarded as possibly being the early seat of the kings of Powys before its establishment at Mathrafal, further west, but the theory that it was an early kingdom (or a sub-kingdom of Powys itself) has also been postulated. Its precise location is uncertain.

King of Gwynedd

Collection of British and Irish historical materials

sub-Roman Breton king

thumb|right|[[Great Britain and adjacent islands in the 5th century AD, before the invasion and subsequent founding of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

a region of medieval Wales (modern Radnorshire)

castle in Penhow, Newport, Wales, UK

attempts by the Welsh to colonise the Americas

medieval village in south Wales

Demarcation in Wales

Leader of the Welsh revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn

Welsh prince

Welsh architect

thumb|Gwerclas

political slogan of Welsh nationalism