Category: English people of Welsh descent

Category: American people of Welsh descent

Category: American people of Welsh descent

Category: English people of Welsh descent

Category: American people of Welsh descent

Category: American people of Welsh descent

The Welsh people themselves practised a centuries-old custom, priodas coes ysgub (" broom-stick wedding "), alluded to in Dundes ' work.

It has been claimed, by commentators citing the 1920s folklorist Gwenith Gwynn ( a. k. a. W. Rhys Jones ), that " broom-stick weddings " were first known in Wales, originating either among the Welsh people themselves or among Romani living in Wales.

Sullivan III, however, argued that the custom originated among the Welsh people themselves, since the custom was known in Wales prior to the 1700s when he believed Gypsies arrived there.

His source, the Welsh folklorist Gwenith Gwynn, assumed that the custom had once existed on the basis of conversations with elderly Welsh people during the 1920s, none of whom had ever seen such a practice.

Category: American people of Welsh descent

Classical Latin Arcturus would also have become Art ( h ) ur when borrowed into Welsh, and its brightness and position in the sky led people to regard it as the " guardian of the bear " ( which is the meaning of the name in Ancient Greek ) and the " leader " of the other stars in Boötes.

Category: English people of Welsh descent

Category: Welsh people of Scottish descent

Category: English people of Welsh descent

* Samhain in the northern hemisphere, Beltane in the southern hemisphere ; begins on sunset of October 31 ( Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagans )

Category: 14th-century Welsh people

Category: 15th-century Welsh people

In the 1830s, many Welsh people from the steelworks of Merthyr migrated to the city following the civil strife and aftermath of the Merthyr Riots of 1831.

The name of the Cymry ( Welsh people ) has, however, survived in the name of Cumberland and now Cumbria.

Sasanach, the Irish-language word for an Englishman, has the same derivation, as do the words used in Welsh to describe the English people ( Saeson, sing.

Other examples are the Welsh Saesneg ( the English language ), Irish Sasana ( England ), Breton saoz ( on ) ( English, saozneg " the English language ", Bro-saoz " England "), and Cornish Sowson ( English people ) and Sowsnek ( English language ), as in the famous My ny vynnav kows Sowsnek!

In 16th-and 17th-century Wales, an expansion in population as well as taxation policy led to a move of people into the Welsh countryside, where they squatted on common land.

David's popularity in Wales is shown by the Armes Prydein Fawr c. 930, a popular prophetic poem in which the poet prophesied that in the future, when all might seem lost, the Cymry ( the Welsh people ) would unite behind the standard of David to defeat the English ; A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant (" And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi ").

* 1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria ; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

Cornish people were still strongly attached to the Catholic religion and again a Cornish army was formed in Bodmin which marched across the border to lay siege to Exeter in Devon.

On October 20, 1991, gusty, hot winds fanned a conflagration along the Berkeley – Oakland border, killing 25 people and injuring 150, as well as destroying 2, 449 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units.

Meanwhile co-operation on many fronts, such as the ease of the flow of goods, services, and people across borders are to be even more extended, as well as the establishment of joint border inspection agencies, relocation of U. S. food inspectors agents to Canadian plants and vice versa, greater sharing of intelligence, and harmonizing regulations on everything from food to manufactured goods, thus further increasing the American-Canadian assemblage.

Cameroon is probably the foreign country that most Central Africans identify with, since most people live in the western part of the country, close to the Cameroon border.

Carens, also known as Ka-REN or Ka-reng, are people from Burma-Thailand border region.

If people are also free to move between the countries, in addition to FTA, it would also be considered an open border.

Under the Oslo Accords the Philadelphi Route was to remain under Israeli control to prevent the smuggling of weapons and people across the border with Egypt.

Hundreds of thousands of people took advantage of the opportunity ; new crossing points were opened in the Berlin Wall and along the border with West Germany.

* 1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.

Another opposition member said the pro-Syrian government pressured people to turn out and some reports said Syria had bused in people from across the border.

The Bulgarian government ordered its troops to make only token resistance, and evacuated between ten thousand and fifteen thousand people from the border region, trusting the League to settle the dispute.

According to Laurence Rees, " Curt von Gottberg, the SS-Obergruppenfuhrer who, during 1943, conducted another huge anti-partisan action called Operation Kottbus on the eastern border of Belorussia, reported that ' approximately two to three thousand local people were blown up in the clearing of the minefields '.

The Ghana Empire, dominated by the Soninke people and centered in the area along the border of the modern states of Mali and Mauritania.

Adam Killeya, the mayor of Saltash and the convenor of the Keep Cornwall Whole campaign, said that of the border that it was " ancient and distinctive " and most people wanted to continue with that status.

In border areas some 10 — 12 million people moved from one side to another and upwards of a half million were killed in communal riots pitting Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.

So Moses lead his people carefully along the eastern border of Edom, the southernmost of these territories.

Masurians showed considerable support for the Polish uprising in 1831, and maintained many contacts with Russian-held areas of Poland beyond the border of Prussia, the areas being connected by common culture and language ; before the uprising people visited each other's country fairs and much trade took placw, with smuggling also widespread Some early writers about Masurians-like Max Toeppen-postulated them as mediators between German and Slav cultures.

Likewise, the Benelux abolition of internal border controls was a model for the wider Schengen Accord, which today has 29 European signatories ( including the Netherlands ) pledged to common visa policies and free movement of people across common borders.

As the Sahara dried after 2000 BCE, the north of Niger became the desert it is today, with settlements and trade routes clinging to the Air in the north, the Kaouar and shore of Lake Chad in the west, and ( apart for a scattering of oases ) most people living along what is now the southern border with Nigeria and the southwest of the country.

* The Gabra people, who live in north Kenya along the Moyale border region

Once World War I started in 1914, the Goetheanum volunteers could hear the sound of cannon fire beyond the Swiss border, but despite the war, people from all over Europe worked peaceably side by side on the building's construction.

The Sami people, also spelled Sámi or Saami, are the indigenous people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway.