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Old stone house from early Welsh settlement in Gaiman, Chubut, Argentina. In 1852 Thomas Benbow Phillips of Tregaron established a settlement of about 100 Welsh people in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Many of these colonists later moved to the more successful colony in Argentina as part of Y Wladfa ("The Colony").
Y Wladfa (Welsh pronunciation: [ə ˈwladva], 'The Colony'), [2] also occasionally Y Wladychfa Gymreig (Welsh pronunciation: [ə wlaˈdəχva ɡəmˈreiɡ], 'The Welsh Settlement'), [3] [4] refers to the establishment of settlements by Welsh colonists and immigrants in the Argentine Patagonia, beginning in 1865, mainly along the coast of the lower Chubut Valley. [5]
Malad City in Idaho, which began as a Welsh Mormon settlement, lays claim to a greater proportion of inhabitants of Welsh descent than anywhere outside Wales itself. [89] Malad's local High School is known as the "Malad Dragons", and flies the Welsh Flag as its school colours. [90] Welsh people have also settled in New Zealand and Australia ...
Population density map in Wales from the 2011 census. ... Welsh name Population Cardiff: Caerdydd: 348,535 ... List of settlements on the island of Ireland by population;
The First World War had a profound effect on Welsh literature with a more pessimistic style championed by T. H. Parry-Williams and R. Williams Parry. [229] The industrialisation of south Wales saw a further shift with the likes of Rhydwen Williams who used the poetry and metre of a bygone rural Wales but in the context of an industrial landscape.
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 ...
Post-Roman Welsh petty kingdoms. Dyfed is the promontory on the southwestern coast. The modern Anglo-Welsh border is also shown. The Kingdom of Dyfed (Welsh pronunciation:), one of several Welsh petty kingdoms that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain in southwest Wales, was based on the former territory of the Demetae (modern Welsh Dyfed).
The River Dee marks the border between Farndon, England, to the left and Holt, Wales, to the right Bilingual "Welcome to Wales" sign Bilingual "Welcome to England" sign. The modern boundary between Wales and England runs from the salt marshes of the Dee estuary adjoining the Wirral Peninsula, across reclaimed land to the River Dee at Saltney just west of Chester.