What explorer/country founded Wales?

Question

What explorer/country founded Wales?

Answer 1

what u mean explorer ? Wales has all ways been there, and poeple have all ways lived there.  P.S. Dont ask a welsh man that will you !!  

Answer 2

Wales was founded by king (l can't remember his name,but it's 3 letters) uze?? He dug a deep trench from south to north and that trench established the border for that country.The deep trench is still there today.It was made to keep out the English.

Once a border was established Welsh identity increased and it;s culture became set in for good.

This king was the founder of the wales we now know,although welsh culture had existed many years prior,he cemented it.It was about the 10th centuary

Answer 3

A very interesting question and all the answers so far have missed one crucial point.

Wales was not one single, unified country for most of its history; although we talk about Wales as if it were, it was actually composed of many different tribal areas (petty kingdoms) during the pre-Roman and Roman periods. It was certainly not a single country as we would understand it. During the early medieval period, Wales was still split into several petty kingdoms, each a rival of the others and often at war with one or more of them.

Llywelyn Fawr (Llywelyn the Great) received the fealty of other Welsh lords in 1216 at the council at Aberdyfi, becoming the first Prince of Wales. Only "Prince", though, because the English king effectively held power over most of Wales by this date. His grandson Llywelyn II also secured the recognition of the title Prince of Wales from Henry III with the Treaty of Montgomery in 1267.

It is at this time that Wales becomes a single entity with one overall ruler. So it could be said with some conviction that the Welsh founded Wales after a long period of civil strife. They were already there, of course, so it didn't have to be discovered.

Answer 4

Phil Bennett - a Rugby Legend.

Answer 5

No one wants to take the blame. But since God created the world, God must be the first person to discover it.

Answer 6

LOL

No one it's always been there.

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Answer 7

No one.

The Welsh are a Celtic race, they are whats known as Brythonic Celts, and are realated to the Cornish, and the Bretons in France.

The Welsh descend directly from the Ancient Britons, and once ruled and lived all over England.

The Welsh & Cornish were part of the Celtic peoples that arrived in Britain between 800BC and 600BC.

The other group of Celts that arrived at the same time were the Gaelic Celts, who ended up in Scotland and Ireland.

The Romans conquered the Ancient Britons (ie Welsh & Cornish) from around 43AD, and took over.

In the 6th Century the English arrived in Britain, they gradually pushed the Welsh & Cornish(native Britons), further westwards into what we know of as Wales and Cornwall.....the lands they pushed them out of eventually became what is now England!

The first civilised people to come into contact with the Ancient Britons were the Phoenicians(A Semitic race from the ancient middle east), who came by boat to trade in Tin as far back as 400BC!.

So in answer to your question, the Welsh themselves founded the kingdoms and tribes of Ancient Britain (including what is now England!) from around 800-600BC, and the first civilisation to meet them afterwards were the Phoenicians, and a long time after that the Romans, and then the English....the English originally came from Germany!

Answer 8

Wales has been occupied since before the beginning of history.  It had no discoverer.

Answer 9

King Offa built Offa's d**e which follows the Welsh Border

Answer 10

not so much discovered more settled, from the germanic regions, and before that no one really knows. They say celts, and look up the fact that they were dotted all over modern Europe and beyond.  

Answer 11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Evan...

Answer 12

No one founded it, it was occupied by various tribes as better quality land was already occupied so they had to make do with low quality hilly welsh stuff.