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Why isn't Wales considered by everyone to be England's first colony?

Why is Wales not universally considered to be England's first colony? No matter where you look online, you will see that the vast majority of content creators, TV channels, etc., don't even mention Wales when such a question comes up. To me and many more Welsh people, Wales was England's first colony The conquest of Wales and eventual occupation exceed every condition or definition of a colony; Wales remained so up until gaining devolution in 1998.   The most common explanation of what a colony is.  A colony is ..... .....a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. Since before the conquest we saw areas of Wales being colonised by Normans; they removed the native Welsh from their lands, built castles and towns, and moved in English and Flemish settlers. this was especially effective in the south of Pembrokeshire, where even today it is called little England beyond Wales.  It wasn't just ...