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The main elements that secures Wales as an entity.
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The main elements that secures Wales as an entity. Which Wales? For over a thousand years, English and other writers have been in no doubt of the existence of a distinctive Welsh people, originally demarcated by language, but also by real or alleged ethnic traits. The Welsh are strongly attached to their homeland, which at various times had a separate political identity. In 1536, Henry VIII Act of Union spoke of a 'dominion, principality and country of Wales' ; a century later, Milton assumed that the Council in the Marches exercised control over 'an old, and haughty nation proud in arms'. But exactly what was this nation? The land of Wales is clearly defined as a political entity, comprising the 13 traditional counties formed under the Tudors, and reorganised in 1974 into eight units and then again in 1997 into 22 new constituencies. Beyond this, almost any statement about 'Welshness' or the nature...
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