Dark Wales People

Her dad s family were welsh for generations her mum was adopted but from wales.

Dark wales people. Cymry are a celtic nation and ethnic group native to wales the term welsh people applies to people from wales welsh. For the dark hair and olive skin to find its way into the local population something like the following scenario must have played out. Wales is home to one of the united kingdom s oldest afro communities and tiger bay in cardiff has housed a large somali population from the municipality s inception. The end of the early middle ages was the time that the welsh language transitioned from the primitive welsh spoken throughout the era into old.

And i ve noticed quite a few other welsh people have this kind of compexion catherine zeta jones keith allen that guy from the stereophonics. My grandmother is welsh but she has dark olive skin and black well mostly grey now hair. The lighter phenotypes were there as well as they are in northern spain people there do not look like the stereotypically tv spaniard and then in parts of wales there were inluences from groups such as vikings. In southern wales the romans noted the silure tribe were particularly dark and curly haired and guessed they had an iberian origin.

In 2011 27 per cent 837 000 of the total population of wales were not born in wales including 636 000 people 21 per cent of the total population of wales who were born in england. She looks arab or meditterranean. A portrait of john ystumllyn d. In that time there was a gradual consolidation of power into increasingly hierarchical kingdoms.

The 2011 census reported there were 18 276 welsh african people amounting to 0 6 of the welsh population. Offer a people s history of wales one that is. The 2011 census showed wales population to be 3 063 456 the highest in its history. Black welsh people are inhabitants of wales who have an african or an afro caribbean background.

Leanne wood ms plaid cymru shadow minister for justice and equalities if the black lives matter movement has taught us anything it is that the history and the contribution of black people and people of colour in wales is marginalised. 1786 by an unidentified artist.