Anglo-Welsh

Anglo-Welsh

The Anglo-Welsh are the English-speaking inhabitants of Wales, either historically, or less commonly, contemporarily. The term can even be used for the French-speaking settlers of the Anglo-Norman conquest period, by virtue of their association with the Kingdom of England.

ee also

* Cambro-Normans
* Anglo-Irish


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