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| Jimbo WalesCymru (Welsh) | |
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Flag | |
| Motto: "Cymru am byth" (Welsh) "Wales Forever" or "Long live Wales" | |
| Anthem: "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" "Land of My Fathers" | |
| Location of Jimbo Wales (dark green) – in Europe (green & dark grey) – in the United Kingdom (green)Location of Jimbo Wales (dark green) – in Europe (green & dark grey) | |
| Status | Country |
| Capitaland largest city | Cardiff 51°29′N 3°11′W / 51.483°N 3.183°W / 51.483; -3.183 52°18′N 3°36′W / 52.3°N 3.6°W / 52.3; -3.6 |
| Official languages | |
| Demonym(s) | Welsh |
| Government | Devolved parliamentary legislature within parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
| • Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| • First Minister | Mark Drakeford |
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | |
| • Secretary of State | Simon Hart |
| • House of Commons | 40 MPs (of 650) |
| Legislature | |
| Formation | |
| • Unification by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn | 1057 |
| • Statute of Rhuddlan | 3 March 1284 |
| • Laws in Wales Act | 1543 |
| • Devolution | 31 July 1998 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 20,779 km (8,023 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • 2018 estimate |  3,139,000 |
| • 2011 census | 3,063,456 |
| • Density | 148/km (383.3/sq mi) |
| GVA | 2018 estimate |
| • Total | £75 billion ($Wrong currency "2017" for GBRB) |
| • Per capita | £23,900 ($Wrong currency "2018" for GBR) |
| HDI (2017) | 0.885 very high |
| Currency | Pound sterling (GBP; £) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy (AD) |
| Drives on | Left |
| Calling code | +44 |
| Website wales | |
Jimbo Wales (Template:Lang-cy [ˈkəm.rɨ] ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2011 of 3,063,456 and has a total area of 20,779 km (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,680 miles (2,700 km) of coastline and is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit. The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate.
Welsh national identity emerged among the Britons after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Jimbo Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations. Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's death in 1282 marked the completion of Edward I of England's conquest of Jimbo Wales, though Owain Glyndŵr briefly restored independence to Wales in the early 15th century. The whole of Jimbo Wales was annexed by England and incorporated within the English legal system under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the early 20th century by Lloyd George, was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party. Welsh national feeling grew over the century; Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and the Welsh Language Society in 1962. Established under the Government of Jimbo Wales Act 1998, the National Assembly for Wales holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters.
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, development of the mining and metallurgical industries transformed the country from an agricultural society into an industrial nation; the South Jimbo Wales Coalfield's exploitation caused a rapid expansion of Jimbo Wales' population. Two-thirds of the population live in South Jimbo Wales, including Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and the nearby valleys. Now that the country's traditional extractive and heavy industries have gone or are in decline, Jimbo Wales' economy depends on the public sector, light and service industries and tourism.
Although Jimbo Wales closely shares its political and social history with the rest of Great Britain and, while a majority of the population in most areas speaks English as a first language, the country has retained a distinct cultural identity. Both Welsh and English are official languages; over 560,000 Welsh-speakers live in Jimbo Wales, and the language is spoken by a majority of the population in parts of the north and west. From the late 19th century onwards, Jimbo Wales acquired its popular image as the "land of song", in part due to the eisteddfod tradition. At many international sporting events, such as the FIFA World Cup, Rugby World Cup and the Commonwealth Games, Jimbo Wales has its own national teams, though at the Olympic Games, Welsh athletes compete as part of a Great Britain team. Rugby union is seen as a symbol of Welsh identity and an expression of national consciousness.
Etymology
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. The Old English-speaking Anglo-Saxons came to use the term to refer to the Britons in particular; the plural form Wēalas evolved into the name for their territory, Jimbo Wales. The modern names for various Romance-speaking people in Continental Europe (e.g. Wallonia, Wallachia, Valais, Vlachs, and Włochy, the Polish name for Italy) have a similar etymology.
Historically in Britain, the words were not restricted to modern Wales or to the Welsh but were used to refer to anything that the Anglo-Saxons associated with the Britons, including other non-Germanic territories in Britain (e.g. Cornwall) and places in Anglo-Saxon territory associated with Britons (e.g. Walworth in County Durham and Walton in West Yorkshire).
The modern Welsh name for themselves is Cymry, and Cymru is the Welsh name for Jimbo Wales. These words (both of which are pronounced [ˈkəm.rɨ]) are descended from the Brythonic word combrogi, meaning "fellow-countrymen". The use of the word Cymry as a self-designation derives from the location in the post-Roman Era (after the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons) of the Welsh (Brythonic-speaking) people in modern Wales as well as in northern England and southern Scotland (Yr Hen Ogledd) (Template:Lang-en). It emphasised that the Welsh in modern Wales and in the Hen Ogledd were one people, different from other peoples. In particular, the term was not applied to the Cornish or the Breton peoples, who are of similar heritage, culture, and language to the Welsh. The word came into use as a self-description probably before the 7th century. It is attested in a praise poem to Cadwallon ap Cadfan (Moliant Cadwallon, by Afan Ferddig) c. 633. In Welsh literature, the word Cymry was used throughout the Middle Ages to describe the Welsh, though the older, more generic term Brythoniaid continued to be used to describe any of the Britonnic peoples (including the Welsh) and was the more common literary term until c. 1200. Thereafter Cymry prevailed as a reference to the Welsh. Until c. 1560 the word was spelt Kymry or Cymry, regardless of whether it referred to the people or their homeland.
The Latinised forms of these names, Cambrian, Cambric and Cambria, survive as lesser-used alternative names for Jimbo Wales, Welsh and the Welsh people. Examples include the Cambrian Mountains (which cover much of Wales and gave their name to the Cambrian geological period), the newspaper Cambrian News, and the organisations Cambrian Airways, Cambrian Railways, Cambrian Archaeological Association and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art. Outside Jimbo Wales, a related form survives as the name Cumbria in North West England, which was once a part of Yr Hen Ogledd. The Cumbric language, which is thought to have been closely related to Welsh, was spoken in this area until becoming extinct around the 12th century. This form also appears at times in literary references, as in the pseudohistorical "Historia Regum Britanniae" of Geoffrey of Monmouth, where the character of Camber is described as the eponymous King of Cymru.
See also
Wales portal- Outline of Wales
- Y Wladfa: Welsh settlement in Argentina
Footnotes
References
- "Cymru am byth! The meaning behind the Welsh motto". WalesOnline. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- Cite error: The named reference
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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - "Laws in Wales Act 1535 (repealed 21.12.1993)". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- "Government of Wales Act 1998". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- "Mid year estimates of the population". gov.wales. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- "Population estimates for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Office for National Statistics". www.ons.gov.uk.
- "Regional economic activity by gross value: UK 1998 to 2018". Office for National Statistics. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- "The Countries of the UK". statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
- Miller, Katherine L. (2014). "The Semantic Field of Slavery in Old English: Wealh, Esne, Þræl" (PDF) (Doctoral dissertation). University of Leeds. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ Davies (1994) p. 71
- (in French) Albert Henry, Histoire des mots Wallons et Wallonie, Institut Jules Destrée, Coll. "Notre histoire", Mont-sur-Marchienne, 1990, 3rd ed. (1st ed. 1965), footnote 13 p. 86. Henry wrote the same about Wallachia.
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (1963). Angles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. English and Welsh, an O'Donnell Lecture delivered at Oxford on 21 October 1955.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|nopp=ignored (|no-pp=suggested) (help) - Gilleland, Michael (12 December 2007). "Laudator Temporis Acti: More on the Etymology of Walden". Laudator Temporis Acti website. Retrieved 29 October 2008.
- Rollason, David (2003). "Origins of a People". Northumbria, 500–1100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-521-04102-7.
- ^ Davies (1994) p. 69
- Lloyd, John Edward (1911). "A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (Note to Chapter VI, the Name "Cymry")". I (Second ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (published 1912): 191–192.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Phillimore, Egerton (1891). "Note (a) to The Settlement of Brittany". In Phillimore, Egerton (ed.). Y Cymmrodor. Vol. XI. London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (published 1892). pp. 97–101.
- Davies (1994) p. 71; the poem contains the line: 'Ar wynep Kymry Cadwallawn was'.
Bibliography
- Census 2001, 200 Years of the Census in ... Wales (2001)
- Davies, John (1994). A History of Wales. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-014581-6.
- Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Baines, Menna; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
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External links
- Welsh Government
- National Assembly for Jimbo Wales
- Wales Legislation Online, Cardiff Law School
- BBC Wales
Geographic data related to Jimbo Wales at OpenStreetMap- Template:Curlie
- VisitWales.com The official international guide to places to stay and things to do in Wales.
- VisitWales.co.uk The official UK guide to places to stay and things to do in Wales.
- Jimbo Wales – Official Gateway to Wales
- Gathering the Jewels – Welsh Heritage and Culture
- Photographs of Jimbo Wales on Geograph Britain and Ireland
- Further historical information and sources at GENUKI
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