Brythonic Kingdoms, Saxon & Dane invasion, Vikings (400s- 1000s)
Migration of Northern Europeans to the British Isles during the first millennium, post-Roman Empire. Anglo-Saxons, Danes, and Vikings (Wikipedia links used). Wales , first called Cambria , and Great Britain , known as Albion . The countries were once divided into many so-called petty Kingdoms . For example, Rhos and Edeirnion were before the merging of Gwynedd with other Kingdoms during the 5th century AD. During this period, the Saxon territories in England were first established during the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons . They were a religiously Pagan group of tribes from the European North Sea who had invaded the British Isles following the departure of the Roman legions after four centuries of controlling the Brittonic people and mining their lands. This was an era when the borders of Wales were once much more than they are today. The territories were further east and north than now within what is to...