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Front page of the earliest surviving copy of the Welsh newspaper Gwalia

Gwalia is an archaic Welsh name for Wales. It derives from the Medieval Latin Wallia,Шаблон:Citation needed which in turn is a Latinisation of the Old English 'Walh' or 'Wealh',[1] which the name 'Wales' is also derived from.[2] Although never as widely used as Cymru, Gwalia was once popular as a poetic name for the country, akin to Albion.

The name originated in the Middle Ages and there are several instances of it in Late Medieval Welsh poetry. Possibly the best-known is in 'Yr Awdl Fraith', a long poem or awdl attributed to Taliesin, and one of the most popular of the period. It imagines gwyllt Walia (Wild Gwalia) rising up against the Saxon invaders of Britain.

In the 19th century, at the height of Romanticism, the name Gwalia once again became popular among local writers. It has now largely fallen out of use due to its Victorian associations.

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