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Cambria is the classical name for Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
, being the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
ised form of the Welsh
Welsh language

Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh Marches and in the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
 name Cymru (Wales). The etymology of Cymry "the Welsh", Cimbri
Cimbri

The Cimbri were a Celtic or Germanic peoples tribe who together with the Teutones and the Ambrones threatened the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC....
, and Cwmry "Cumbria
Cumbria

Cumbria is a non-metropolitan county in the North West England of England. Cumbria came into existence as a county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
", improbably connected to the Biblical Gomer
Gomer

Gomer may refer to:*Gomer, the name of the eldest son of Japheth and of the unfaithful wife of Hosea in the Bible*Gomer, Armenia*Gomer, Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques, France...
 and the "Cimmerians
Cimmerians

The Cimmerians or Kimmerians were ancient equestrian nomads who, according to Herodotus, originally inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, in what is now Ukraine and Russia, in the 8th century BC and 7th century BC....
" by 17th-century celticists, is now known to come from Old Welsh combrog "compatriot; Welshman", deriving from an old Brythonic
Brythonic languages

The Brythonic languages form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages language family, the other being Goidelic. The name Brythonic was derived by Wales Celtic studies Sir John Rhys from the Welsh language word Brython, meaning an indigenous Brython as opposed to an Anglo-Saxons or Gaels....
 word "combroges" or Proto-Brythonic *kom-brogos, meaning "compatriots", (as a result of the struggle with the Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
) possibly therefore related to its sister language Breton
Breton language

The Breton language is a Celtic languages spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany in France....
's keñvroad, keñvroiz "compatriot" .

Cambria in legend
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth was a clergyman and one of the major figures in the English historians in the Middle Ages and the popularity of tales of King Arthur....
 in the first part of his pseudohistory
Pseudohistory

Pseudohistory is a pejorative term applied to texts which purport to be history in nature but which depart from standard Historical method in a way which undermines their conclusions....
 Historia Regum Britanniae
Historia Regum Britanniae

The Historia Regum Britanniae is a pseudohistory account of Great Britain history, written c.1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the List of legendary kings of Britain in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning with the Troy of Homer's Iliad founding the Brython nation and conti...
, the Trojan
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
 Brutus
Brutus of Troy

Brutus or Brute of Troy is a legendary descendant of the Troy hero Aeneas, was known in medieval British legend as the eponymous founder and first king of Great Britain....
 had three sons among whom (having subdued Gogmagog
Gog and Magog

The tradition of Gog and Magog begins in the Bible with the reference to Magog , son of Japheth, in the Book of Genesis and continues in cryptic prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel which are echoed in the Book of Revelation and in the Qur'an....
) he divided his lands after landing in Britain.






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Cambria is the classical name for Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
, being the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
ised form of the Welsh
Welsh language

Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh Marches and in the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
 name Cymru (Wales). The etymology of Cymry "the Welsh", Cimbri
Cimbri

The Cimbri were a Celtic or Germanic peoples tribe who together with the Teutones and the Ambrones threatened the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC....
, and Cwmry "Cumbria
Cumbria

Cumbria is a non-metropolitan county in the North West England of England. Cumbria came into existence as a county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
", improbably connected to the Biblical Gomer
Gomer

Gomer may refer to:*Gomer, the name of the eldest son of Japheth and of the unfaithful wife of Hosea in the Bible*Gomer, Armenia*Gomer, Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques, France...
 and the "Cimmerians
Cimmerians

The Cimmerians or Kimmerians were ancient equestrian nomads who, according to Herodotus, originally inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, in what is now Ukraine and Russia, in the 8th century BC and 7th century BC....
" by 17th-century celticists, is now known to come from Old Welsh combrog "compatriot; Welshman", deriving from an old Brythonic
Brythonic languages

The Brythonic languages form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages language family, the other being Goidelic. The name Brythonic was derived by Wales Celtic studies Sir John Rhys from the Welsh language word Brython, meaning an indigenous Brython as opposed to an Anglo-Saxons or Gaels....
 word "combroges" or Proto-Brythonic *kom-brogos, meaning "compatriots", (as a result of the struggle with the Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
) possibly therefore related to its sister language Breton
Breton language

The Breton language is a Celtic languages spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany in France....
's keñvroad, keñvroiz "compatriot" .

Cambria in legend


According to Geoffrey of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth was a clergyman and one of the major figures in the English historians in the Middle Ages and the popularity of tales of King Arthur....
 in the first part of his pseudohistory
Pseudohistory

Pseudohistory is a pejorative term applied to texts which purport to be history in nature but which depart from standard Historical method in a way which undermines their conclusions....
 Historia Regum Britanniae
Historia Regum Britanniae

The Historia Regum Britanniae is a pseudohistory account of Great Britain history, written c.1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the List of legendary kings of Britain in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning with the Troy of Homer's Iliad founding the Brython nation and conti...
, the Trojan
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
 Brutus
Brutus of Troy

Brutus or Brute of Troy is a legendary descendant of the Troy hero Aeneas, was known in medieval British legend as the eponymous founder and first king of Great Britain....
 had three sons among whom (having subdued Gogmagog
Gog and Magog

The tradition of Gog and Magog begins in the Bible with the reference to Magog , son of Japheth, in the Book of Genesis and continues in cryptic prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel which are echoed in the Book of Revelation and in the Qur'an....
) he divided his lands after landing in Britain. His elder son, Locrinus
Locrinus

Locrinus was a legendary king of the Britons , as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was the oldest son of Brutus of Troy and a descendant of the Troy through Aeneas....
, received the land between the rivers Humber
Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of northern England.The Humber is an estuary formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal River Ouse, Yorkshire and the tidal River Trent....
 and Severn
River Severn

The River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, at . It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales....
, which he called Loegria (a Latinization of the Welsh name Lloegr, "England"). His second son, Albanactus
Albanactus

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Albanactus was the founding king of Scotland or Albany. He was the youngest of three sons of Brutus of Britain, a descendant of Aeneas of Troy....
, got the lands beyond the Humber, which took from him the name of Alba
Alba

Alba is the Scottish Gaelic language name for Scotland. It is cognate to Albain in Irish Gaelic and Nalbin in Manx language, the other Goidelic languages Insular Celtic languages, as well as similar words in the Brythonic languages Insular Celtic languages of Cornish language and Welsh language also meaning Scotland....
ny (Yr Alban in Welsh: Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
). The younger son, Camber, was bequeathed everything beyond the Severn, which was called after him "Cambria".

This legend was widely prevalent throughout the 12th-16th centuries.

Legacy

The name "Cambria" lives on in much contemporary literature. It is also used in geology
Geology

Geology is the science and study of the solid and liquid matter that constitute the Earth. The field of geology encompasses the study of the composition, structural geology, physical properties, dynamics, and History of the Earth of Earth materials, and the processes by which they are formed, moved, and changed....
 to denote the geologic period between around 542 million years and 488.3 million years ago, now known as the Cambrian
Cambrian

The Cambrian is a geologic period that began about Mya at the end of the Proterozoic eon and ended about Ma with the beginning of the Ordovician period ....
; it was in Wales that rocks from this age were first studied. It is also a rare female name.