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	Wales - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Wales is located in the south-west of Great Britain and is bordered by the English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Gloucestershire to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, St George's Channel to the southwest, and the Irish Sea to the west and north.
		Wales has not been politically independent since 1282, when King Edward I of England defeated Welsh monarch Llywelyn II in the Battle of Cilmeri, although Welsh law was not replaced in all cases by English law until the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542.
		The population of Wales in the 2001 census was 2,903,085.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Wales (4030 words)

	Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Wales has been a principality -- since the 13th century initially the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great and later under his grandson Llywelyn Last who took the title Prince of Wales around 1258 and was recognised by English Crown in 1277 by the Treaty Aberconwy.
		The Act of Union 1536 partitioned Wales into thirteen counties: Anglesey Caernarfon Cardigan Carmarthen Denbigh Flint Glamorgan Merioneth Montgomery Pembroke and Radnor and applied the of England to both England and Wales English the language to be used for purposes.
		Demographics of Wales as at the 2001 Census:
	www.freeglossary.com /Wales (1354 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Wales
		Wales was annexed by the Laws in Wales Act 1535, in the reign of Henry VIII of England, who was himself partly of Welsh ancestry.
		Wales borders by England to the east and by sea in the other three directions: the Welsh Channel to the south, St George's Channel to the west, and the Irish Sea to the north.
		Wales is often referred to as "the land of song", being particularly famous for harpists, male voice choirs, and solo artists including Sir Geraint Evans, Dame Gwynneth Jones, Dame Anne Evans, Ivor Novello, Madam Adelina Patti, John Cale, Tom Jones, Charlotte Church, Bonnie Tyler, Bryn Terfel, Mary Hopkin, Katherine Jenkins, Shirley Bassey and Aled Jones.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Wales (5502 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		Wales has been a principality since the 13th century, initially under the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great, and later under his grandson, Llywelyn the Last, who took the title Prince of Wales around 1258, and was recognised by the English Crown in 1277 by the Treaty of Aberconwy.
		Glyndwr was proclaimed Prince of Wales, and sought assistance from the French, but by 1409 his forces were scattered under the attacks of King Henry IV of England and further measures imposed against the Welsh.
		The title of Prince of Wales is still given by the reigning British monarch to his or her eldest son, but in modern times the Prince does not live in Wales and does not have anything to do with its administration or government.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Wales (1285 words)

	Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Wales is located in the south-west of Great Britain, and is bordered by England to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, St George's Channel in the west, and the Irish Sea to the north.
		The capital of Wales since 1955 is Cardiff, although Caernarfon is the location where the Prince of Wales is invested, and Machynlleth was the home of a parliament called by Owain Glyndwr during his revolt at the start of the fifteenth century.
		Wales was legally annexed by the Act of Union 1536, in the reign of Henry VIII of England.
	wales.iqnaut.net (1703 words)

	List of rulers of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before the Norman Conquest of Wales was completed in 1282, Wales consisted of a number of independent principalities, the most important being Gwynedd, Powys, Deheubarth (originally Seisyllwg and Dyfed), Gwent and Morgannwg.
		The following is a list of kings of the two former kingdoms, followed by the kings of the combined Deheubarth (beginning with Hywel Dda).
		Iestyn was the last ruler of an independent Morgannwg, which was thereafter in the possession of the Normans and became the lordship of Glamorgan
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Wales (558 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Prince of Wales
		The translation as "Prince" was used by Englishmen to undermine the power of the rulers of Wales, causing them to appear inferior to the Kings of England (as a Prince is lower than the King in the hierarchy).
		To represent Wales he bears the Coat of Arms of the Principality of Wales, crowned with the heir-apparent's crown, on an inescutcheon-en-surtout.
		The Principality of Wales and Earldom of Chester must be created, and are not automatically acquired like the Dukedoms of Cornwall and Rothesay, which are the Heir Apparent's titles in England and Scotland, respectively (note: the heir apparent is not necessarily Duke of Cornwall, see Duke of Cornwall for more details).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Prince_of_Wales (1252 words)

	Wales and Edward II
		Wales was poised to take an early place among the developing independent nation states of Europe.
		Henceforth, Wales was to live under an alien political system, playing a subordinate role as an integral part of the kingdom of England.
		The statute created the counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon and Merioneth, to be governed by the Justice of North Wales; Flint, to be placed under the Justice of Chester; and the counties of Carmarthen and Cardigan were left under the Justice of South Wales.
	welshdragon.net /resources/myths/wales_edward.shtml (2386 words)

	Medieval Gwynedd
		At several periods it was Wales' major power, its princes dominating the whole country; but such hegemonies were short-lived, for Celtic society did not recognize primogeniture, and the reluctance of princes to accept any hierarchy among themselves prevented effective consolidation of previous gains.
		At his death in 1240 he was undisputed ruler of all pura Wallia, corresponded on equal terms with Phillip Augustus of France, and had hanged one of the most powerful Marcher lords for undue familiarity with his wife, the daughter of King John of England.
		Llywelyn's position as effective ruler of all Wales as far south as Caerphilly was eventually recognized by Henry III, in the Treaty of Montgomery (1267).
	www.castlewales.com /gwyned.html (2147 words)

	Titles of European hereditary rulers
		A list of geographical names in rulers' titles might not be a list of their actual possessions.
		According to the inheritance traditions of the Rurikids and the Gediminids, the dynasties that ruled in Russia and Lithuania in the 10th-16th centuries, territories of a late prince were divided by his close male relatives.
		Originally, it was meant to denote the ruler of Austria, in an effort to put that ruler on par with the Electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
	www.geocities.com /eurprin (2007 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Sacred Places - Bangor
		The cathedral itself merits highly on our list of sacred places, for it may be the oldest in Britain in continuous use.
		A very pleasant, and most unusual feature of the exterior of the cathedral is the Bishop's Garden, containing the Biblical garden which is planted on one side with flowers and shrubs traditionally associated with the medieval church.
		On the other side, planted chronologically according to the order in which they are mentioned, are found examples of all trees, shrubs and plants in the Bible and able to survive the climate of this northern part of Britain.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/wales/sacred/bangor.html (432 words)

	completelest
		Serpent Mother whose symbol was worn in the crowns of all deities and rulers.
		Pre-Roman Latium knew Her as Rhea Silvia, Rhea of the Woodland, under Whose rule, the Vestal Virgins were neither celibate nuns, nor servants of the state, as they became in later ages.
		Ruler of death, She chose from the dead spread across battlefields, taking them to Her palace Sessrumnir, meaning “rich in seats”.
	www.mothergoddess.com /completelist.htm (5777 words)

	WALES AND THE WELSH LANGUAGE
		Welsh rulers acknowledge the overlordship of Alfred of Wessex.
		Wales moves toward unity as their territory is reclaimed and the culture flourishes.
		Eleanor sailed from France to Wales in 1275, but her ship was seized and she was imprisoned by the king of England, in Windsor castle.
	www.tylwythteg.com /wales/whistory.html (2956 words)

	Wikinfo \| List of British monarchs
		This is a list of British monarchs, that is, the monarchs on the thrones of the various kingdoms that have existed on, or incorporated, the island of Great Britain, namely
		Prior to 1282, Wales was independent of England, consisting of a number of separate principalities.
		The Bretwalda were chosen from among the rulers of the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=British_Monarchs (1393 words)

	BBC News \| WALES \| Glyndwr is Welsh man of millennium
		Top of the list was Owain Glyndwr, the 15th Century nobleman who led a successful rebellion against English control of Wales, which had been in force since Edward 1st conquered the country in 1282.
		Since the conquest, Welsh resentment had been fuelled by the imposition of laws favouring English rulers and settlers, laws which later historians have described as "a system of apartheid".
		Among the planned events are the unveiling of a memorial at Machynlleth, the scene of Glyndwr's parliament, and the establishment of a monument at Ruthin, where his rebellion began.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/583864.stm (483 words)

	Llywelyn the Last Summary
		Eleanor was released and married Llewelyn in 1278.
		The lands of Llewelyn were held forfeit to the Crown, and Edward annexed Wales as a conquered country to England by the Statute of Wales.
		By early 1258 Llywelyn was using the title Prince of Wales, first used in an agreement between Llywelyn and his supporters and the Scottish nobility associated with the Comyn family.
	www.bookrags.com /Llywelyn_the_Last (3072 words)

	Prince of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Heraldic badge of the Heir Apparent is derived from the ostrich feathers borne by Edward, the Black Prince.
		In 1282 Llywelyn was 'deposed' by Edward I of England and the title became dormant.
		Since 1301, the Prince of Wales has usually been the eldest living son of the King or Queen Regnant of England (subsequently of Great Britain, 1707, and of the United Kingdom, 1801).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_of_Wales (1321 words)

	Principal Contributors to the Castles of Wales Web Site
		Born in Bangor, north Wales, John Northall interest in ancient monuments was stirred at the age of 10 by a teacher who ran field trips to local historical sites.
		The Castles of Wales is honored to have been associated with the late Richard Williams.
		Lightfoot was the principal director of excavations at Rumney Castle in southern Wales for the two archaeological digs that took place in 1978 and 1980-81.
	www.castlewales.com /contrib.html (1679 words)

	Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers
		One motivation is that history is often not taught anymore in terms of dynasties and rulers, since this is thought (by an academic elite comfortably supported by the taxpayers) to be too elitist and too removed from the life of the people.
		A skeleton for history of rulers, with maps and genealogies, provides a perspective of time and space, and on real individuals whom we know about, that is otherwise hard to obtain.
		The arrangement of these lists thus follows Bryce's principle of universalist ideology, centering on Rome but extending to similar to ideas outside of the Roman world.
	www.friesian.com /histindx.htm (3021 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Welsh Literature - The Mabinogion
		The magical song of the birds of Rhiannon manage to bring solace until the spell is ended when Bran's head is taken to London to be buried.
		The use of Welsh by the writer (or writers) of the Mabinogion was important.
		In Wales there had been a reaction against Anglo-Norman rule, and a new generation of writers began to praise native Welsh rulers in their own language.
	www.britannia.com /wales/lit/lit5.html (768 words)

	Scotland
		Normally, listings of the purely ceremonial peerages which came into being after the feudal era is outside the scope of this archive.
		The following list attempts to trace them, although it must be admitted that it is in a very tentative and confused state.
		The Royal Stuarts became extinct with the death of Henry Cardinal Stuart in 1809 (though descendents in other dynasties retain a pretension to the throne), though numerous collateral branches and branches stemming from illegitimate descendants and their heirs exist today.
	ellone-loire.net /obsidian/scot.html (4146 words)

	More Women Rulers - Women in World History Curriculum
		Daughter of former ruler Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was overthrown in 1977 and executed by the military regime in 1979, she was only 35 when she was elected Prime Minister, becoming the first woman to lead a Muslim nation in modern age.
		She united Mercia, conquered Wales and subdued the Danes becoming the de facto ruler of the Mercians and Danes.
		She was the last civilized ruler of Greece in the middle age, and only woman leader in the conquered Greece by crusaders.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /rulers-more.html (7003 words)

	Fundamentalist Islam: The Drive for Power by Martin Kramer
		On one occasion, Afghani proposed to a follower that the ruler of Egypt be assassinated, and he did inspire a supple disciple to assassinate a ruling shah of Iran in 1896.
		Fundamentalists did not admit the sharing of this power, anymore than they admitted the sharing of religious truth, and although fundamentalists differed on the means of taking power, they were unanimous on what should be done with it.
		H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, Islam and the West: a lecture given in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 27 October 1993 (Oxford: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 1993), p.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/FundamentalistPower.htm (7087 words)

	British Isles, 500–1000 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In this period, the lands now known as England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are subdivided into smaller regions, each of which is governed by a territorial king.
		Often, rulers display their wealth and prominence by wearing splendid golden and jeweled brooches as marks of their status.
		King Aethelstan is the first ruler to call himself "king of all Britain" on some of his coinage, by which he means modern-day England, Scotland, and Wales.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/06/euwb/ht06euwb.htm (960 words)

	Knights of the Round Table
		The most extensive list of name was found in the Post-Vulgate romance of the Grail (78:49-51), which has 110 names out of the 150.
		Marhaus was listed as one of the six knights who were better than Gawain.
		Marhaus was companions of Gawain and Yvain (or Uwain), and undertook one of the adventures of the Three Damosels of the Fountain.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/roundtable.html (12943 words)

	Wales-lnks
		This site is a list of links on the life of this Important Welsh Personage.
		A pause in the work was taken on Satruday to mark the patronal day of St Teilo, the Welsh saint after whom the church is named.
		St Teilo led a Christian community in south Wales in the sixth century.
	www.florilegium.org /files/CULTURES/Wales-lnks.html (2668 words)

	Wales-msg
		Wales' is 'yng Nghymru.' All of these would be in the dictionary only
		He also mentions that in North Wales, the spear is the preferred weapon.
		Wales is "Wales in the Early Middle Ages"
	www.florilegium.org /files/CULTURES/Wales-msg.html (9533 words)

	Prince of Wales Feathers Desk Magnifier from Scotweb Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This elegant pewter desk magnifier has a foldaway lens and was created by time served craftsmen.
		The badge of the Prince of Wales has been in use in Royal Heraldry since the 14th century.
		The title 'Prince of Wales' (Tywysog Cymru) was originally given to rulers of Wales but is now an indicator of the heir apparent, or the next in line to the throne.
	scotwebstore.com /sr_aewil_2116.html (149 words)

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