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Galicia has about 2,795,422 inhabitants which mainly combines the coastal strip between Ferrol and A Coruña in the northwest and between Vilagarcía de Arousa and Vigo in the southwest. The medieval and modern Kingdom of Galicia derived of the kingdom of the Suebi, founded by king Hermeric in 409.
or Internecine war in Rus' (1015—1019) [ ru]) Bolesław I's intervention in the Kievan succession crisis (June–Sept. 1018) Kievan Rus' loyal to Svyatopolk I. Duchy of Poland (1018) Kingdom of Hungary (1018) Kievan Rus' loyal to Yaroslav I. Yaroslav victory. 1022. Yaroslav the Wise 's attack on Brest.
The coat of arms of Galicia includes, enclosed in a field of azure, a chalice of gold with a silver host, accompanied by seven silver crosses, three on each side and one in the center of the shield (representative of the seven historic provinces of Galicia). The royal crown in gules, i.e. red, enclosed in a golden ring set with precious stones ...
Portugal. Alfonso the Great (848–910), king of León, Galicia and Asturias. The Kingdom of León [a] was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded in 910 when the Christian princes of Asturias along the northern coast of the peninsula shifted their capital from Oviedo to the city of León.
2:3. Adopted. 6 April 1981. Design. White field white with a blue band crossing the flag from the top-left corner to the bottom-right. The flag of Galicia appeared for first time in the 19th century, probably based on the colours of the ancient medieval flags of the Kingdom of Galicia. Originally, the flag was probably a blue St Andrew's Cross ...
Galician ( / ɡəˈlɪʃən /, [3] / ɡəˈlɪsiən /; [4] endonym: galego ), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Spanish.
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a crown land of Austria-Hungary, was subdivided into political districts ( German: Bezirkshauptmannschaften) for administrative purposes, which were referred to in Polish as powiaty (administrative counties). When they were introduced in 1867 there were 74 of these administrative counties; [1] in 1900 there ...
