Originally Iron Steel and Coal

Then manufacturing

Now chiefly farming

in history yes there has been especially in the year

615: The Saxon Aethelfrith defeats the Welsh at Bangor

616: Battle of Chester - Wales isolated from the rest of Britain.

c.784: Offa of Mercia (below), the powerful Saxon king, constructs Offa's Dyke and Wales acquires an eastern boundary.

Warfare in the Middle Ages was not necessarily a pitched battle but a series of skirmishes, diplomacy and hostage taking. There were constant bickerings between Wales and England through most of the 'Dark Ages' and after the Norman Conquest of England, Wales was also subjected to invasion, the southern part of Wales falling and remaining in English hands. The reign of King John saw increased activity, mostly from 1204 onwards after John lost Normandy to the French king Philip Augustus and had little more to do than look inwards. Henry III, John's son, continued the trend and the conquest was accomplished finally by Edward I 'Longshanks' in 1282 with the death of Llwyelyn the Last in an ambush.

Smaller- the Highland region is roughly equivalent in size to Northern Ireland. The whole of Scotland is about one third larger than Wales.

As a general rule of thumb, Wales is about the same size as Belgium.

IN welsh its "Bore da!" (said as "bor ed da")

There are 60 elected welsh assembly government members.

Believed to be in the south of Wales around the River Severn estuary. Or at St David's in Pembrokshire. Or in the Northern Kingdom of Strathclyde

Discharge for London - average 65.8 m³/s (2,324 cu ft/s)

It depends on who's going. They might be visiting because their ancestors grew up there or they're simply visiting a relative or just going on a holiday. But, and I mean this is a kind way seeing as I grew up and still live in Wales, it is raining a lot.

There are several famous Welsh dishes. These include posh chest on toast, Welsh cakes, bara brith, and cawl. There are many more dishes.

Well depends what kind of journey do you prefer by road or by air. By air will be better and fastest way.

there are quite a few.

patagonioa has a large welsh community , so has Canada and various places really!

Dublin and Wales are separated by the Irish Sea and are about 60 miles apart, with no bridge, so you cannot drive from Dublin to Wales. You can however bring a car on a ferry from Dublin to Wales.

There was no census held in 2008, the last census was in 2001 and the next one is due to be held in 2011. They are held every ten years. Current estimates of the population of Wales give a figure of around 2,900,000 or just under 3 miliion.

NO. They have all now been closed

Scotland and Wales are part of the United Kingdom along with England and Northern Ireland. Their status is similar to individual states within the United States.

Its filmed in a few places, the funeral parlour is in llanbradach, Stella's house is in tylorstown, the curry buffet in episode 1 was the Non-Pol in Tonyrefail (I was in there when filming) and the woman Stella delivers ironing to is also in Tonyrefail

Cardiff has the highest rate of rough sleeping in Wales.

A recent count looking at the issue, the city recorded both the highest number of persons sleeping rough on November 25 (30 persons) and, along with Wrexham , the highest rate at 2.9 rough sleepers per 10,000 households.

The three other authorities with rates above the Wales average of 0.6 per 10,000 households included Bridgend and Caerphilly .

Based on this evidence gathered from various organisations working with homeless people, it is estimated there were 64 people sleeping rough in Cardiff over a two-week period in November 2017, the highest rate in Wales at 6.3 per 10,000 households.

This is as a result of a Welsh emigrant colony that was established there in the late 18th Century by the famous Welsh bard and poet Iolo Morgannwg (pronounced 'Yolo Morganoog'). He led a group of several hundred Welsh pioneers desperate to escape the poverty of their native land, but to a new country that was not embroiled in war as the USA was with England at the time. The emigrants chartered a number of sailing vessels and landed in Southern Argentina about 3 weeks after setting off from Newport in South Wales- over the following decades, several thousand more Welsh settlers went out to join them.

The new arrivals established good relationships with the native Pueblo Indians and Hispanics, intermarrying and introducing them to Welsh culture, language, sport and literature. This is why to this very day, Patagonia still has many Welsh speakers, and several towns & districts with Welsh names.

The Welsh-language word for Wales is Cymru.

Wales has a devolved Parliament called the Senedd, which has 60 members and is presided over by a First Minister. It holds elections every 5 years.

The Senedd has complete autonomy over the areas of transport, housing, health, education, local Government, the environment and several other aspects of Government. However, it's powers over energy policy are limited, and it has no power over policing, criminal justice, or taxation (although the latter is set to change soon, with these being devolved to the same level as they are in Scotland).

A recent report called the Silk Commission has recommended that policing powers be devolved to Wales, which will in turn necessitate Wales having it's own justice system too. However, at present these are controlled by central Government in London.

The political parties in Wales are Labour, the Conservatives, the Welsh Nationalist Party Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats, and several independent political candidates. Wales is currently governed by a minority Labour government, which has to rely upon support from either Plaid Cymru or the Liberal Democrats to pass any legislation.

UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, has a tiny representation, but it's following within Welsh government is marginal because one of it's policies if elected to power in London would be to abolish the Welsh Parliament, which virtually no Welsh people want now.

Wales has four members of the European Parliament- one Labour, one Plaid Cymru, one Conservative, and one UKIP, although the latter was elected as a 'protest vote' before most people understood what UKIP would do to Wales if elected to power in Westminster. He will probably lose his seat at the next European Elections.

There is no place name in Wales that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet.

You are probably thinking of the longest place name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf