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Wales
Principality, constituting an integral part of the United Kingdom. It occupies a peninsula on the W side of the island of Great Britain. Area: 8,019 sq mi (20,768 sq km). Population (1995 est.): 2,917,000. Capital: Cardiff. The population is of Mediterranean, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Anglo-Norman ancestry. Languages: English, Welsh. Religions: Secularism; Methodism. Wales is almost entirely an upland area generally known as the Cambrian Mtns. The highest peak in England and Wales, Mt. Snowden, is found in Snowdonia National Park. The Severn, Wye and Dee are the longest rivers. The country mines coal, slate, and lead; imports and refines petroleum; and manufactures consumer electronics. Tourism is an important industry. In prehistoric times, tribal divisions of the British Celtic speakers who dominated all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde inhabited the region. The Romans ruled from the 1st cent. AD until the 4th-5th cent. Welsh Celts fought off incursions from the Anglo-Saxons. A number of kingdoms arose there, but none was successful in uniting the area. The Norman conquerors of England brought all of S Wales under their rule in 1093. English King Edward I conquered N Wales and made it a principality in 1284. Since 1301 the heir to the English throne has carried the title Prince of Wales. It was incorporated with England in the reign of Henry VIII. It became a leading international coal-mining center during the 19th cent. The Welsh Nationalist Party was founded in 1925, but its influence did not gather force until the 1960s, when Welsh nationalist aspirations rose; they continued into the late 20th cent.


warbler
Any songbird of almost 350 Old World species (family Sylviidae) or about 120 New World species (family Parulidae, see wood warbler). Old World warblers, found in gardens, woodlands, and marshes, have a slender bill adapted for gleaning insects from foliage. They occur mainly from Europe and Asia to Africa and Australia, but a few (e.g., the gnatcatcher) live in the Americas. They are drab greenish, brownish, or black and 3.5-10 in. (9-26 cm) long. See also blackcap, blackpoll warbler, gnatcatcher, wood warbler.

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