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Galicia (Spain)

Index Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. [1]

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  1. 622 relations: A Coruña, A Coruña Airport, A Estrada, A Gudiña, A Illa de Arousa, Adelantado, Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias, Aguardiente, Airas Nunes, Alans, Alaska, Albariño, Alexandre Bóveda, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Alfonso II of Asturias, Alfonso IX of León, Alfonso Rueda, Alfonso VI of León and Castile, Alfonso X of Castile, Allariz, Amancio Ortega, Americas, Ames, Spain, Amphibian, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, Andrés Suárez, Animal husbandry, Ansurius, Antarctica, Antonio Azarola y Gresillón, Anxo Quintana, Appian, Aquis Querquennis, Archipelago, Arde Lucus, Argentina, Arteixo, Arzúa, Asset turnover, Asturias, Atlantic Bronze Age, Atlantic Europe, Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park, Atlantic Ocean, Atlántica, Atlántico Diario, Augustus, Authoritarianism, Autonomous communities of Spain, ... Expand index (572 more) »

  2. Autonomous communities of Spain
  3. Green Spain
  4. Regions of Europe with multiple official languages

A Coruña

A Coruña (La Coruña; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain.

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A Coruña Airport

A Coruña Airport, formerly known as Alvedro Airport, is the airport serving the Galician city of A Coruña in northwestern Spain.

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A Estrada

A Estrada is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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A Gudiña

A Gudiña is a municipality in the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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A Illa de Arousa

A Illa de Arousa is the only island municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Adelantado

Adelantado (meaning "advanced") was a title held by some Spanish nobles in service of their respective kings during the Middle Ages.

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Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias

ADIF (an acronym of) is a Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure manager.

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Aguardiente

Aguardente (Portuguese) or aguardiente (Spanish) (pattar; aiguardent; augardente) is a type of distilled alcoholic spirit that contains between 29% and 60% alcohol by volume (ABV).

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Airas Nunes

Airas Nunes (c. 1230 – 1293) was a Galician cleric and troubador of the 13th century.

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Alans

The Alans (Latin: Alani) were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today North Caucasus – while some continued on to Europe and later North-Africa.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Albariño

Albariño or Alvarinho is a variety of white wine grape grown in Galicia (northwest Spain) and in Northwest Portugal (Monção and Melgaço) where it is also used to make varietal white wines.

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Alexandre Bóveda

Alexandre Bóveda Iglesias (Ourense, 7 June 1903 - executed in A Caeira, Poio, 17 August 1936), commonly known as Alexandre Bóveda, was a Spanish politician and financial officer from Galicia.

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Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao

Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao (30 January 1886 – 7 January 1950), commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor.

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Alfonso II of Asturias

Alfonso II of Asturias (842), nicknamed the Chaste (el Casto), was the king of Asturias during two different periods: first in the year 783 and later from 791 until his death in 842.

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Alfonso IX of León

Alfonso IX (15 August 117123 or 24 September 1230) was King of León from the death of his father Ferdinand II in 1188 until his own death.

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Alfonso Rueda

Alfonso Rueda Valenzuela (born 8 July 1968) is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician.

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Alfonso VI of León and Castile

Alfonso VI (1 July 1109), nicknamed the Brave (El Bravo) or the Valiant, was king of León (10651109), Galicia (10711109), and Castile (10721109).

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Alfonso X of Castile

Alfonso X (also known as the Wise, el Sabio; 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284) was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284.

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Allariz

Allariz is a town and municipality in the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Amancio Ortega

Don Amancio Ortega Gaona, OMC (born 28 March 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Ames, Spain

Ames is a municipality of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain in the province of A Coruña with an area of, population of 26,983 inhabitants (INE, 2009) and a density of.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Andrés Suárez

Andrés Suárez (Ferrol, 16 April 1983) is a Spanish singer-songwriter.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.

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Ansurius

Saint Ansurius (also Aduri, Asurius, Isauri) (died 925 AD) was a Galician bishop.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Antonio Azarola y Gresillón

Antonio Azarola y Gresillón (1874 4 August 1936) was a Spanish Navy officer, rear admiral of the Spanish Republican Navy.

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Anxo Quintana

Anxo Manuel Quintana González, commonly known as Anxo Quintana, is the former leader of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego, BNG), the main nationalist party in Galicia.

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Appian

Appian of Alexandria (Appianòs Alexandreús; Appianus Alexandrinus) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.

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Aquis Querquennis

Aquis Querquennis is a Roman fort in Ourense Province, Galicia.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Arde Lucus

Arde Lucus (also written as Arde Lvcvs) is a festival celebrated in Lugo, Spain in the last weeks of June which revives the Roman and castro past of the city, and which emerged to commemorate the declaration of the city's Roman walls as a World Heritage Site in 2000.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Arteixo

Arteixo is a municipality in the province of A Coruña, part of the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.

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Arzúa

Arzúa is a municipality in the province A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia, northwestern Spain.

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Asset turnover

In finance, asset turnover (ATO), total asset turnover, or asset turns is a financial ratio that measures the efficiency of a company's use of its assets in generating sales revenue or sales income to the company.

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Asturias

Asturias (Asturies) officially the Principality of Asturias, (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies; Galician–Asturian: Principao d'Asturias) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. Galicia (Spain) and Asturias are autonomous communities of Spain, green Spain and NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union.

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Atlantic Bronze Age

The Atlantic Bronze Age is a term that has never been formally defined.

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Atlantic Europe

Atlantic Europe is a geographical term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean.

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Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park

The Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park (Parque Nacional das Illas Atlánticas de Galicia, Parque Nacional de las Islas Atlánticas de Galicia) is the only national park located in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atlántica

Atlántica (full name: Atlántica. Revista de Arte y Pensamiento (English: Atlántica. Journal of Art and Thought)) is a contemporary art and culture magazine produced by the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in between Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

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Atlántico Diario

Atlántico Diario is a Spanish language daily newspaper for the Vigo metropolitan area of Galicia in Spain.

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Augustus

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.

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Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma) is the first sub-national level of political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain. Galicia (Spain) and autonomous communities of Spain are NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union.

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Autopista AP-53

The Autopista A-53 is a highway in north western Spain.

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Autopista AP-9

The AP-9 or Autoestrada do Atlántico is a toll motorway in Galicia, Spain.

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Autovía

An autovía is one of two classes of major highway in the Spanish road system similar to a British motorway or an American freeway.

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Autovía A-52

The A-52 is a highway in northwestern Spain.

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Autovía A-54

The Autovía A-54 is a freeway in Spain.

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Autovía A-57

The Autovía A-57 is a highway in western Spain to the south of Pontevedra.

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Autovía A-6

The Autovía A-6 or Autopista AP-6 (also called Autovía del Noroeste) (Autovía do Noroeste) is a Spanish autovía and autopista route that starts in Madrid and ends in Arteixo (A Coruña).

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Autovía A-76

The Autovía A-76 is a proposed initial upgrade of the N-120, a highway in northern Spain.

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Autovía A-8

The Autovía A-8 is a highway (autovía) that connects all the regions on the Northern Coast of Spain.

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Azure (heraldry)

In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours".

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Baiona, Pontevedra

Baiona is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Baixa Limia – Serra do Xurés

Baixa Limia – Serra do Xurés is a natural park in Galicia, Spain.

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Bala (band)

Bala is a Galician stoner rock/grunge band that consists of Anxela Baltar from A Coruña (guitar and vocals) and Violeta Mosquera from Pontevedra (drums and vocals).

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Banco Etcheverría

Banco Etcheverría was a Spanish bank.

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Banco Pastor

Banco Popular Pastor, S.A. was a Spanish bank.

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Banco Popular Español, S.A. was the sixth largest banking group in Spain before it was bought by Banco Santander as part of a rescue package in June 2017.

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Barbary pirates

The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, Ottoman corsairs, or naval mujahideen (in Muslim sources) were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Basque Country (autonomous community)

The Basque Country (Euskadi; País Vasco), also called the Basque Autonomous Community, is an autonomous community in northern Spain. Galicia (Spain) and Basque Country (autonomous community) are autonomous communities of Spain, green Spain, NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union and regions of Europe with multiple official languages.

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Bell Beaker culture

The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC.

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Benavente, Zamora

Benavente is a town and municipality in the north of the province of Zamora, in the autonomous community Castile and León of Spain.

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Benigno Andrade

Benigno Andrade García, also known as Foucellas, was a Spanish anarchist and maqui.

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Berrogüetto

Berrogüetto was a folk band from Galicia, formed in the spring of 1995.

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Betanzos

Betanzos is a municipality in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain in the province of A Coruña.

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Bilbao

Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole.

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Birth rate

Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.

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Braga

Braga (Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brazilians

Brazilians (Brasileiros) are the citizens of Brazil.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Britonia

Britonia (which became Bretoña in Galician and Spanish) is the name of a Romano-British settlement on the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Broa

Broa is a type of maize and rye bread traditionally made in Portugal, Galicia, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Brazil, however in those countries it is more closely related to cornbread and its original recipe from Native Americans, where it is traditionally seasoned with fennel.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Bullfighting

Bullfighting is a physical contest that involves a bullfighter attempting to subdue, immobilize, or kill a bull, usually according to a set of rules, guidelines, or cultural expectations.

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Burela

Burela is a municipality in the Galician province of Lugo.

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Caldo galego

Caldo galego or simply caldo (in Galician), also known as caldo gallego (in Spanish), meaning literally "Galician broth", is a traditional soup dish from Galicia.

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Cambre

Cambre is a municipality in the Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.

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Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002) was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana,; O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St.

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Campo Lameiro

Campo Lameiro is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Cangas, Pontevedra

Cangas, also known as Cangas do Morrazo, is a seaside resort in southwestern Galicia, Spain.

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Canoeing

Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle.

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Cantabria

Cantabria (also) is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. Galicia (Spain) and Cantabria are autonomous communities of Spain, green Spain and NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union.

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Cantabrian Sea

The Mar Cantábrico or Cantabrian Sea is the term used mostly in Spain to describe the coastal sea of the Atlantic Ocean that borders the northern coast of Spain and the southwest side of the Atlantic coast of France, included in the Bay of Biscay.

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Cantabrian Wars

The Cantabrian Wars (29–19 BC) (Bellum Cantabricum), sometimes also referred to as the Cantabrian and Asturian Wars (Bellum Cantabricum et Asturicum), were the final stage of the two-century long Roman conquest of Hispania, in what today are the provinces of Cantabria, Asturias and León in northwestern Spain.

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Cantigas de Santa Maria

The Cantigas de Santa Maria ("Canticles of Holy Mary") are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile ''El Sabio'' (1221–1284).

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Canting arms

Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus.

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Cape (geography)

In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea.

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Cape Finisterre

Cape Finisterre (also; italic; italic) is a rock-bound peninsula on the west coast of Galicia, Spain.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Captain general

Captain general (and its literal equivalent in several languages) is a high military rank of general officer grade, and a gubernatorial title.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Carballo

Carballo is a municipality in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.

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Carlos Núñez Muñoz

Carlos Núñez Muñoz (born 1971) is a Spanish musician and multi-instrumentalist who plays the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe, Galician flute, ocarina, Irish flute, whistle and low whistle.

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Carnival

Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

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Castile and León

Castile and León is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. Galicia (Spain) and Castile and León are autonomous communities of Spain and NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union.

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Castle of Soutomaior

Soutomaior Castle is a medieval castle located in the municipality of the same name in Galicia, Spain.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (castra) was a military-related term.

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Castro Caldelas

Castro Caldelas is a municipality in the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Castro culture

Castro culture (cultura castrexa, cultura castreja, cultura castriega, cultura castreña, meaning "culture of the hillforts") is the archaeological term for the material culture of the northwestern regions of the Iberian Peninsula (present-day northern and central Portugal together with the Spanish regions of Galicia, Asturias, and western León) from the end of the Bronze Age (c.

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Castro of San Cibrao de Las

San Cibrao de Las hill fort (Castro de San Cibrao de Las) is an archeological site in Galicia, Spain.

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Catalan Solidarity (1906)

Catalan Solidarity (Solidaritat Catalana, SC) was a coalition of political parties in Catalonia formed after the 1905 ¡Cu-Cut! incident and the approval of the 1906 Jurisdiction Act.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy. Galicia (Spain) and Catalonia are autonomous communities of Spain, NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union and regions of Europe with multiple official languages.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church in Spain

The Spanish Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Spain, is part of the Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome, and the Spanish Episcopal Conference.

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Catoira

Catoira is a municipality in Galicia, Spain, located in the province of Pontevedra.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Cíes Islands

The Cíes Islands (Illas Cíes; Islas Cíes) are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain, in the mouth of the Ria de Vigo.

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CB Breogán

Club Baloncesto Breogán, S.A.D., also known as Río Breogán for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Lugo, Spain.

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CB Cangas

Club Balonmán Cangas Frigoríficos Morrazo is a team of handball based in Cangas, Spain.

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CD Lugo

Club Deportivo Lugo is a Spanish football team based in Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Celtiberian language

Celtiberian or Northeastern Hispano-Celtic is an extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by the Celtiberians in an area of the Iberian Peninsula between the headwaters of the Douro, Tagus, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river.

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Celtic Britons

The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Central European Summer Time

Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.

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Central European Time

Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Chalcolithic

The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.

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Chalice

A chalice (from Latin calix 'mug', borrowed from Ancient Greek κύλιξ 'cup') or goblet is a footed cup intended to hold a drink.

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Chorizo

Chorizo (from Spanish; Portuguese chouriço) is a type of pork sausage originating from the Iberian Peninsula.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Church of San Xoán, Portomarín

The Church of San Xoán (or Saint John) of Portomarín is a temple-fortress of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, in the Galician town of Portomarín, Spain.

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Chus Pato

María Xesús Pato Díaz (born 29 August 1955, in Ourense, Galicia), most commonly known as Chus Pato, is a Galician writer.

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Citroën

CitroënThe double-dot diacritic over the 'e' is a diaeresis (tréma) indicating the two vowels are sounded separately, and not as a diphthong.

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Citroën C4 Picasso

The Citroën C4 SpaceTourer (formerly the Citroën C4 Picasso), also spelled Citroen C4 SpaceTourer in some other languages (formerly the Citroen C4 Picasso), is a five-seater car produced by French manufacturer Citroën with a seven-seater version called the Grand C4 SpaceTourer (formerly the Grand C4 Picasso) also available.

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Club Ourense Baloncesto

Club Ourense Baloncesto, S.A.D., more commonly referred to today by its sponsorship name of Río Ourense Termal, is a professional basketball team based in Ourense, Spain.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Coat of arms of Galicia (Spain)

The coat of arms of Galicia is described in the Spanish Law 5 of 29 May 1984, the Law of the symbols of Galicia.

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Coimbra

Coimbra (also,, or) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.

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Collins English Dictionary

The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.

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Colombians

Colombians (Colombianos) are people identified with the country of Colombia.

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Comarca

A comarca is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain, and some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama.

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Comarcas of Spain

In Spain, a comarca is either a traditional territorial division without any formal basis, or a group of municipalities, legally defined by an autonomous community for the purpose of providing common local government services. In English, a comarca is equivalent to a district, county, area or zone.

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Congress of Deputies

The Congress of Deputies (Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

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Constitution of Spain

The Spanish Constitution (Constitución Española) is the supreme law of the Kingdom of Spain.

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Constitutional monarchy

Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.

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Construction

Construction is a general term meaning the art and science of forming objects, systems, or organizations.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Corporación Radio e Televisión de Galicia

The Corporación Radio e Televisión de Galicia (CRTVG) is the public broadcaster for the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Cortegada Island

Cortegada is an almost tidal island (it is possible to go walking when the lowest tides happen, but a small amount of water flow does not disappear) in a coastal inlet near Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain.

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Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium

The cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics with pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat Earth paradigm, along with the modern spherical Earth view of the Solar System.

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Cristina Pato

Cristina Pato Lorenzo (born August 17, 1980) is a Galician bagpiper, pianist and composer.

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Crown of Castile

The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.

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Crust punk

Crust punk (also known as stenchcore or simply crust) is a subgenre of punk rock influenced by the English punk scene as well as extreme metal.

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Cuac FM

Cuac FM is a community radio station that began broadcasting in 1996 on 103.4 FM in A Coruña, Spain.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Culleredo

Culleredo is a municipality of northwestern Spain in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Cup and ring mark

Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found in the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Northern England, Scotland, France (Brittany), Portugal, and Spain (Galicia) – and in Mediterranean Europe – Italy (in Alpine valleys and Sardinia), Azerbaijan and Greece (Thessaly and Irakleia (Cyclades)), as well as in Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) and in Switzerland (at Caschenna in Grisons).

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David Cal

David Cal Figueroa (born 10 October 1982) is a Spanish sprint canoeist who has competed since 1999.

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Día Nacional de Galicia

Dia Nacional de Galicia ("National Day of Galicia") is when the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain celebrates its national holiday.

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Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus

Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (or Gallaecus or Callaecus; c. 180113 BC) was a consul of the Roman Republic for the year 138 BC together with Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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Delmi Álvarez

Delmi Álvarez is a Galician photojournalist and documentary photographer (he/him).

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Deluxe (musician)

Xoel López (born 12 August 1977) is a Spanish alternative rock musician, formerly known as Deluxe, from A Coruña, Galicia.

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Denis of Portugal

Denis (9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King (Rei Lavrador) and the Poet King (Rei Poeta), was King of Portugal.

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Denominación de origen

In Spain, the denominación de origenIn other languages of Spain.

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Deportivo de La Coruña

Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña, commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña, is a Spanish professional football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia, that competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of Spanish football league system.

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Devolution

Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.

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Diario de Pontevedra

The Diario de Pontevedra is a Spanish newspaper published in the city of Pontevedra since 1968, owned since 1999 by the El Progreso group, which also publishes El Progreso de Lugo.

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Digital terrestrial television

Digital terrestrial television (DTTV, DTT, or DTTB) is a technology for terrestrial television where television stations broadcast television content in a digital format.

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Dios Ke Te Crew

Dios Ke Te Crew (a satiric misspelling of the Galician phrase "Deus que te criou!") is a Rap music group formed in 2003 in Ordes, Galiza.

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Dolmen

A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".

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Douro

The Douro (Duero; Mirandese: Douro ˈdowɾʊ; Durius) is the largest river of the Iberian Peninsula by discharge.

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Economic development

In the economics study of the public sector, economic and social development is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and objectives.

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Eduardo Pondal

Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente (February 8, 1835 – March 8, 1917) was a Galician (Spain) poet, who wrote in both Galician and Spanish.

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El Correo Gallego

El Correo Gallego is a Galician newspaper founded in Ferrol, Spain, by José María Abizanda in 1878.

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El Diario de Ferrol

Diario de Ferrol is a Galician daily newspaper founded in Ferrol, Spain, in 1998 by Editorial La Capital (company of El Ideal Gallego, DXT Campeón, Diario de Arousa and Diario de Bergantiños).

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El Español

El Español is a Spanish online newspaper that started in 2015.

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El Ideal Gallego

El Ideal Gallego is a Galician newspaper from A Coruña, Spain.

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El País

() is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.

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Emigration

Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country).

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Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa (16 September 185112 May 1921), countess of Pardo Bazán, was a Spanish novelist, journalist, literary critic, poet, playwright, translator, editor and professor.

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Emilio Pérez Touriño

Emilio Pérez Touriño (born 8 August 1948) is a Spanish politician and economist.

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Empanada

An empanada is a type of baked or fried turnover consisting of pastry and filling, common in Spain, other Southern European countries, Latin American countries, and the Philippines.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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English Armada

The English Armada (lit), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.

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Eucalyptus globulus

Eucalyptus globulus, commonly known as southern blue gum or blue gum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae.

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Eurasian wolf

The Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the common wolf,Mech, L. David (1981), The Wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species, University of Minnesota Press, p. 354, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Europe and Asia.

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Europa Press

Europa Press is a Spanish news agency founded in 1953.

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European Fisheries Control Agency

The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) that co-ordinates the national operational activities in the area of fisheries, and assists the member states in their application of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Executive (government)

The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.

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Extremadura

Extremadura (Estremaúra; Estremadura; Fala: Extremaúra) is a landlocked autonomous community of Spain. Galicia (Spain) and Extremadura are autonomous communities of Spain and NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union.

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Exxon Valdez

Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound, spilling her cargo of crude oil into the sea.

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Ezetaerre

Ezetaerre is a Spanish hip hop group formed in A Coruña in 2015, composed of Miguel García (Garchu), Juan Pirola (Pirola) and Pedro Iglesias (Petrowski).

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Faro de Vigo

Faro de Vigo is a Spanish daily newspaper for the town of Vigo.

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Feast of Corpus Christi

The Feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is a liturgical solemnity celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; the feast is observed by the Latin Church, in addition to certain Western Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican churches.

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Feast of Saint James

The Feast of Saint James, also known as Saint James' Day, is a commemoration of the apostle James the Great celebrated on July 25 of the liturgical calendars of the Catholic Church and the Church of England.

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Federalism

Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government (the central or federal government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial, or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.

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Ferdinand I of León

Ferdinand I (1015 – 24 December 1065), called the Great (el Magno), was the count of Castile from his uncle's death in 1029 and the king of León after defeating his brother-in-law in 1037.

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Ferrol, Spain

Ferrol is a city in the province of A Coruña in Galicia, Spain.

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Fiestas of National Tourist Interest of Spain

The category of Fiesta of National Tourist Interest in Spain is an honorary designation given by the General Secretariat of Tourism of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of the Government of Spain to fiestas, festivals or events held in Spain that offer real interest as national tourism attractions.

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Fillos de Galicia

Fillos de Galicia is a web portal and virtual community that focuses on the Galician culture and diaspora.

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Finistère

Finistère (Penn-ar-Bed) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany.

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Fireworks

Fireworks are low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.

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Firth

Firth is a word in the English and Scots languages used to denote various coastal waters in the United Kingdom, predominantly within Scotland.

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Fisterra

Fisterra (Finisterre) is a municipality in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Foederati

Foederati (singular: foederatus) were peoples and cities bound by a treaty, known as foedus, with Rome.

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Fowl

Fowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes).

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Francesco Benozzo

Francesco Benozzo (born 22 February 1969) is an Italian poet, musician and philologist.

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Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.

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Francisco Javier Gómez Noya

Francisco Javier Gómez Noya (born 25 March 1983) is a Spanish triathlete.

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Francoist Spain

Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.

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Froiz

Distribuciones Froiz, S.A. is a Spanish supermarket chain based in Poio, Galicia.

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Futsal

Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt like a basketball court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors.

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Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; Cumann Lúthchleas Gael; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball, and rounders.

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Gaelic football

Gaelic football (Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or football, is an Irish team sport.

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Galicia Hoxe

Galicia Hoxe is a Galician digital newspaper from Santiago de Compostela written entirely in Galician.

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Galicia national football team

The Galicia national football team is the official football team of Galicia.

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Galicia Peak

Galicia Point (vrah Galisiya,; Punta Galicia; Punta Galicia or Punta Galiza) is the peak rising to 4480 m Polar Geospatial Center.

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Galician derby

The Galician derby (O derbi galego) is the name given to any association football match contested between Celta Vigo and Deportivo La Coruña, the two biggest clubs in Galicia.

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Galician diaspora

The Galician diaspora is the ethnically Galician population outside of Galicia.

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Galician horse

The Galician or Galician Mountain Horse, Caballo de Pura Raza Gallega, Raza Equina Cabalo Galego do Monte, is a breed of small horse from Galicia, in north-western Spain.

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Galician language

Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.

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Galician literature

Galician-language literature is the literature written in Galician.

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Galician Literature Day

Galician Literature Day (Día das Letras Galegas) is a public holiday observed in Galicia, Spain.

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Galician Massif

The Galician Massif or Galician-Leonese Massif (Macizo Galaico, also known as Macizo Galaico-Leonés) is a system of mountain ranges in the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Galician nationalism

Galician nationalism is a form of nationalism found mostly in Galicia, which asserts that Galicians are a nation and that promotes the cultural unity of Galicians.

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Galician Nationalist Bloc

The Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego, BNG) is a political party from Galicia, formed with the merger of a series of left-wing Galician nationalist parties.

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Galician Solidarity

Galician Solidarity (SG, Solidaridad Gallega in Spanish language) was a Galician regionalist political organization active between 1907 and 1912.

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Galician wine

Galician wine is Spanish wine made in the autonomous community of Galicia in the northwest corner of Spain.

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Galician-Portuguese lyric

In the Middle Ages, the Galician-Portuguese lyric, also known as trovadorismo in Portugal and trobadorismo in Galicia, was a lyric poetic school or movement.

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Galician–Portuguese

Galician–Portuguese (lingua vulgar; galego–portugués or galaico–portugués; galego–português or galaico–português), also known as Old Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician or Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese when referring to the history of each modern language, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Galicians

Galicians (galegos; gallegos) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people and has its historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Gallaeci

The Gallaeci (also Callaeci or Callaici; Καλλαϊκοί) were a Celtic tribal complex who inhabited Gallaecia, the north-western corner of Iberia, a region roughly corresponding to what is now the Norte Region in northern Portugal, and the Spanish regions of Galicia, western Asturias and western León before and during the Roman period.

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Gallaecia

Gallaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province in the north-west of Hispania, approximately present-day Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias and Leon and the later Kingdom of Gallaecia.

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Gallaecian language

Gallaecian or Northwestern Hispano-Celtic is an extinct Celtic language of the Hispano-Celtic group.

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García II of Galicia

García II (1041/April 104322 March 1090), King of Galicia, was the youngest of the three sons and heirs of Ferdinand I, King of Castile and León, and Sancha of León, whose Leonese inheritance included the lands García would be given.

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Geographic top-level domain

A geographic top-level domain (often shortened as geographic TLD or geoTLD) is any of an unofficial group of top-level domains in the Domain Name System of the Internet using the name of or invoking an association with a geographical, geopolitical, ethnic, linguistic or cultural community.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gheada

Gheada is a term in Galician to describe the debuccalisation of the voiced velar stop to a, usually voiceless, back fricative, most often a voiceless pharyngeal fricative.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (13 June 1910 – 27 January 1999) was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Governor

A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.

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Hard rock

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.

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Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus Lepus.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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Hórreo

An hórreo is a typical granary from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Asturias, Galicia, where it might be called a Galician granary, and Northern Portugal), built in wood or stone, raised from the ground (to keep rodents and water out) by pillars (pegollos in Asturian and Cantabrian, esteos in Galician, espigueiros in Portuguese, abearriak in Basque) ending in flat staddle stones (vira-ratos in Galician, mueles or tornarratos in Asturian, or zubiluzea in Basque) to prevent access by rodents.

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HC Liceo

Hockey Club Liceo (also known as Deportivo Liceo for sponsorship reasons) is a Spanish rink hockey club based in A Coruña, Spain.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Heredeiros da Crus

Heredeiros da Crus is a Galician rock and roll band formed in 1992 by Antón Axeitos (Tonhito de Poi) in Ribeira, A Coruña.

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High Court of Justice of Galicia

The High Court of Justice of Galicia (Tribunal Superior de Xustiza de Galicia, TSXG) is the highest body and last judicial instance in the Galician jurisdiction, integrating the Spanish judiciary.

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High school diploma

A high school diploma (or high school degree) is a diploma awarded upon graduation of high school.

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High-speed rail

High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.

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Highways in Spain

The Spanish motorway (highway) network is the third largest in the world, by length.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Hispasat

Hispasat is the operating company for a number of Spanish communications satellites that cover the Americas, Europe and North Africa from orbital positions 30.0° West and 61.0° West.

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Hogueras de Alicante

The Bonfires of Saint John (Hogueras de San Juan, Fogueres de Sant Joan) are a traditional and popular festival celebrated in the city of Alicante, Spain, from 19 to 24 June.

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Holstein Friesian

The Holstein Friesian is an international breed or group of breeds of dairy cattle.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

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Iberian wolf

The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus, or Canis lupus lupus, Spanish and Portuguese: Lobo ibérico), is a subspecies of grey wolf.

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Icarus

In Greek mythology, Icarus (Íkaros) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete.

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Inditex

Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex) is a Spanish multinational clothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia, Spain.

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Irmandades da Fala

The Irmandades da Fala (English: "Brotherhood of the Language") was a Galician nationalist organization active between 1916 and 1936.

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Irmandiño revolts

The Irmandiño revolts (or Irmandiño Wars) were two revolts that took place in the 15th-century Kingdom of Galicia against attempts by the regional nobility to maintain their rights over the peasantry and the bourgeoisie.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Isabella I of Castile

Isabella I (Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504.

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Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville (Isidorus Hispalensis; 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states).

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Iván Ferreiro

Iván Ferreiro Rodríguez (born 15 August 1970) is a Spanish singer-songwriter born in Vigo, Galicia.

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Iván Raña

Iván Raña Fuentes (born 10 June 1979) is a Spanish triathlete and the winner of three medals in the World Triathlon Championships between the years of 2002–2004.

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James the Great

James the Great (Koinē Greek: Ἰάκωβος, romanized: Iákōbos; Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ, romanized: Yaʿqōḇ; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.

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Jerónimo Zurita y Castro

Jerónimo (or Gerónimo) de Zurita y Castro or simply Jerónimo (or Gerónimo) de Zurita (1512 – 3 November 1580) was a Spanish historian of the sixteenth century who founded the modern tradition of historical scholarship in Spain.

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Joanna la Beltraneja

Joanna of Castile, known as la Beltraneja (28 February 1462 – 12 April 1530), was a claimant to the throne of Castile, and Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Afonso V, her uncle.

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José Miñones

José Manuel Miñones Conde (born 17 July 1972) is a Spanish politician and university professor of the Spanish Socialist Party who served as minister of Health between March and November 2023.

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Juana Capdevielle

Juana Capdevielle (12 August 1905 – 18 August 1936) was a Spanish educator and librarian.

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Judiciary

The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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King crab

King crabs are decapod crustaceans in the family Lithodidae that are chiefly found in cold seas.

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Kingdom of Asturias

The Kingdom of Asturias was a kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula founded by the Visigothic nobleman Pelagius.

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Kingdom of Castile

The Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.

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Kingdom of Galicia

The Kingdom of Galicia (Reino de Galicia, or Galiza; Reino de Galicia; Reino da Galiza; Galliciense Regnum) was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Kingdom of León

The Kingdom of León was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Kingdom of the Suebi

The Kingdom of the Suebi (Regnum Suevorum), also called the Kingdom of Galicia (Regnum Galicia) or Suebi Kingdom of Galicia (Galicia suevorum regnum), was a Germanic post-Roman kingdom that was one of the first to separate from the Roman Empire.

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La Región

is a daily newspaper in the city and province of Ourense, in the Southeastern part of Galicia, an autonomous community (region) of Spain.

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La Vanguardia

La Vanguardia is a Spanish daily newspaper, founded in 1881.

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La Voz de Galicia

La Voz de Galicia (The Voice of Galicia) is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia.

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Labyrinth

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (λαβύρινθος||) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

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Lalín

Lalín is a municipality in the north of the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Land's End

Land's End (Cornish Standard Written Form or Pedn an Wlas) is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road.

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Late antiquity

Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century up to the 7th or 8th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin depending on location.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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Laza, Spain

Laza is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Legislator

A legislator, or lawmaker, is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

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Life expectancy

Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.

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Liga ACB

The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system.

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Liga ASOBAL

Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain.

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Limia

Limia is a genus of livebearing fishes belonging to the Cyprinodontiform family Poeciliidae, which includes other livebearers such as platys, swordtails (genus Xiphophorous), guppies and mollies (genus Poecilia).

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List of castros in Galicia

This is a list of castros in Galicia (Spain), ordered by provinces.

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List of Galician monarchs

Galicia is an autonomous community and historical nationality in modern-day northwestern Spain on the Iberian Peninsula, which was a major part of the Roman province known as Gallaecia prior to 409.

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List of municipalities in A Coruña

This is a list of the municipalities in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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List of municipalities in Lugo

This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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List of municipalities in Ourense

This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Ourense in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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List of municipalities in Pontevedra

This is a list of the 62 municipalities in the province of Pontevedra in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Lithodes santolla

Lithodes santolla, also known as the southern king crab, Chilean king crab or centolla, is a species of king crab, found off southern South America including the offshore Falkland Islands.

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Liuvigild

Liuvigild, Leuvigild, Leovigild, or Leovigildo (Spanish and Portuguese), (519 – 586) was a Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania from 568 to 586.

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Los Suaves

Los Suaves is a Spanish hard rock band from Ourense, Galicia.

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Luar na Lubre

Luar na Lubre is a Celtic music ensemble from Galicia, Spain.

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Lugo

Lugo is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Lusitania

Lusitania was an ancient Iberian Roman province encompassing most of modern-day Portugal (south of the Douro River) and a large portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and Province of Salamanca).

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Lusitanians

The Lusitanians were an Indo-European-speaking people living in the far west of the Iberian Peninsula, in present-day central Portugal and Extremadura and Castilla y Leon of Spain.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Madrid–Galicia high-speed rail line

The Madrid–Galicia high-speed rail line is a high-speed railway line in Spain that links the city of Madrid with the region of Galicia via the cities of Olmedo, Zamora, Ourense and Santiago de Compostela.

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Mailoc

Mailoc or Maeloc was a 6th-century bishop of Britonia, a settlement founded by migrating Britons in Galicia, Spain.

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Manuel Fraga

Manuel Fraga Iribarne (23 November 1922 – 15 January 2012) was a Spanish professor and politician during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, who was also one of the founders of the People's Party.

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Manuel Murguía

Manuel Antonio Martínez Murguía (17 May 1833 – 2 February 1923) was a Galician journalist and historian who created the Real Academia Galega.

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Manuel Rivas

Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Spain) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.

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Marín, Pontevedra

Marín is a town and municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Marina of Aguas Santas

Marina of Aguas Santas (also Marina of Ourense) (c.120–135 AD) was a Christian virgin martyr from Aguas Santas, in the province of Ourense.

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Martin Codax

Martin Codax or Codaz, Martín Codax or Martim Codax was a Galician medieval ''joglar'' (non-noble composer and performer, as opposed to a ''trobador''), possibly from Vigo, Galicia in present-day Spain.

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Master Mateo

Master Mateo (c. 1150 – c. 1200 or c. 1217) was a sculptor and architect who worked in medieval Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula during the second half of the twelfth century.

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May Day

May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's Spring equinox and June solstice.

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Mayor–council government

A mayor–council government is a system of local government in which a mayor who is directly elected by the voters acts as chief executive, while a separately elected city council constitutes the legislative body.

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Mazurka for Two Dead Men

Mazurka for Two Dead Men (Mazurca para dos muertos) is a 1983 novel by the Spanish writer Camilo José Cela.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

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Menhir

A menhir (from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age.

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Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Middle Paleolithic

The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Midsummer

Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer, taking place on or near the date of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere; the longest day of the year.

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English former musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success.

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Milladoiro

Milladoiro is a music band from Galicia.

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Minho (river)

The Minho or Miño (Miniu) is the longest river in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain, with a length of.

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Ministry of Justice (Spain)

The Ministry of Justice (MJUS) was the department of the Government of Spain responsible for preparing and carrying out the government policy in order to bring the legal system off, specially in criminal, civil, commercial and procedural law affairs, supporting the Administration of Justice and the legal and international cooperation.

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Moaña

Moaña is a municipality located in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Monarchy of Spain

The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.

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Monastery of San Vicente do Pino

The Monastery of San Vicente do Pino is a former monastery in Monforte de Lemos, Galicia, Spain.

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Monastery of San Xoán de Caaveiro

The Monastery of San Xoán de Caaveiro (Mosteiro de San Xoán de Caaveiro) is a Galician monastery founded in the tenth century by Saint Rudesind.

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Mondoñedo

Mondoñedo is a small town and municipality in the Galician province of Lugo, Spain.

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Monforte de Lemos

Monforte de Lemos is a town and municipality in northwestern Spain, in the province of Lugo, Galicia.

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Monterrei

Monterrei, historically spelled Monterrey in Spanish and English, is a municipality in the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Montevideo

Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.

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Moors

The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

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Mos, Spain

Mos is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain.

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Mountain

A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.

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Moveable feast

A moveable feast is an observance in a Christian liturgical calendar which occurs on different dates in different years.

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Municipalities of Spain

The municipality (municipio,, municipi, concello, udalerria, conceyu)In other languages of Spain.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.

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MV Prestige

The MV Prestige was an oil tanker owned by a Greek company based in Athens and operating under a Bahamian flag, that on 19 November 2002 sank off the coast of Galicia, Spain.

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N-120 road (Spain)

The N-120 is a highway in northern Spain.

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Narón

Narón is a municipality in northwestern Spain in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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National and regional identity in Spain

Both the perceived nationhood of Spain, and the perceived distinctions between different parts of its territory derive from historical, geographical, linguistic, economic, political, ethnic and social factors.

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National Statistics Institute (Spain)

The (INE) is the official agency in Spain that collects statistics about demography, economy, and Spanish society.

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Nationalities and regions of Spain

Spain is a diverse country integrated by contrasting entities with varying economic and social structures, languages, and historical, political and cultural traditions.

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Navantia is a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding company that builds vessels for military and civil sectors.

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The Navia is a river in northern Spain flowing South to North from Galicia into the Autonomous Community of Asturias.

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Neanderthal

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.

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O Barco de Valdeorras

O Barco de Valdeorras is a municipality in the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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O Grove

O Grove (alternative spelling: Ogrobe) is a municipality belonging to the province of Pontevedra, in Galicia, Spain.

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O Porriño

O Porriño is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Obradoiro CAB

Obradoiro Clube de Amigos do Baloncesto, S.A.D. (lit, Obradoiro Friends of Basketball Club), also known as Monbus Obradoiro for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.

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Octopus

An octopus (octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.

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Official language

An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Oleiros, Galicia

Oleiros (Spanish and Galician) is a municipality of northwestern Spain in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Ons Island

The Ons Island (Illa de Ons; Isla de Ons) is the main island of a small archipelago in the Ria de Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain.

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Oppidum

An oppidum (oppida) is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town.

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Opus Dei

Opus Dei (Work of God) is an institution of the Catholic Church that, by a purported divine inspiration, was founded in Spain in 1928 by Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá.

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Ortegal

Ortegal is a comarca in the north of the Galician Province of A Coruña, Spain.

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Ortigueira

Ortigueira is a seaport and municipality in the province of A Coruña the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.

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Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World

Ortigueira, a seaport and borough in County Ferrolterra (A Coruña) in Galicia, celebrates its patron saint day -Saint Martha of Ortigueira's Day- on 29 July.

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Orujo

Orujo is a pomace brandy (a liquor obtained from the distillation of marc, the solid remains left after pressing of the grape) from northern Spain.

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Os Ancares

Os Ancares is a comarca in the Galician Province of Lugo.

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Os Pinos

"" is the official anthem of Galicia, in Spain.

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Os renovadores

Os Renovadores (the Renewers) or Os Novos (New ones) was a group of artists who wanted to renew the visual Galician arts from the 1920s.

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Os Resentidos

Os Resentidos (The Resentfuls) was a Galician rock band from Vigo, Spain founded in 1982 by Antón Reixa, Alberto Torrado, Rubén Losada, and Javier Soto.

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Ourense

Ourense (Orense) is a city and the capital of the province of Ourense, located in the autonomous community of Galicia, northwestern Spain.

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Ourense Cathedral

The Ourense Cathedral (Catedral de Ourense or Catedral do San Martiño) is a Roman Catholic church located in Ourense in Galicia.

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Oviedo

Oviedo or Uviéu (Asturian) is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain and the administrative and commercial centre of the region.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.

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Paprika

Paprika (US,; UK) is a spice made from dried and ground red peppers.

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Parish (administrative division)

A parish is an administrative division used by several countries.

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Parliament of Galicia

The Parliament of Galicia is the unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Parroquia (Spain)

A is a population entity or parish found in the autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias in northwestern Spain.

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Partido Galeguista (1931)

The Partido Galeguista (Galicianist Party) was a Galician nationalist party founded in December 1931.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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Pazos in Pontevedra and Terra de Montes

Pazos are big country houses that were built in the 16th century by the richest families of that time, most of them are found in Galicia, Spain.

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Pedrafita do Cebreiro

Pedrafita do Cebreiro is a municipality in the province of Lugo in Galicia, Spain.

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Pedro Madruga

Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior (c. 1430 – 1486), known by the sobriquet Pedro Madruga, was a Galician nobleman and knight.

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Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

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People's Party (Spain)

The People's Party (Partido Popular; known mostly by its acronym, PP) is a conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Spain.

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People's Party of Galicia

The People's Party of Galicia (Galician & Spanish: Partido Popular de Galicia, PP or PPdeG) is a conservative political party in Galicia, Spain.

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Petroglyph

A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.

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Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives

In Spanish dialectology, the realization of coronal fricatives is one of the most prominent features distinguishing various dialect regions.

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Pig slaughter

Pig slaughter is the work of slaughtering domestic pigs to obtain pig meat (pork).

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Plataforma Nunca Máis

Nunca Máis ('Never Again', Nunca Más) is the name and slogan of a popular movement in Galicia (Spain) formed in response to the ''Prestige'' oil spill in 2002.

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Plaza de la Leña

The Plaza de la Leña (Galician: Praza da Leña; Firewood Square) is a picturesque medieval square located in the heart of the old town of Pontevedra (Spain).

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Plaza de Toros de Pontevedra

The Plaza de Toros de Pontevedra (Spain) is the bullring of the Spanish city of Pontevedra and the only one in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Polbo á feira

Polbo á feira (literally meaning "fair-style octopus", pulpo a la gallega in Spanish, meaning Galician-style octopus)', is a traditional Galician dish.

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Pomace

Pomace, or marc (from French marc), is the solid remains of grapes, olives, or other fruit after pressing for juice or oil.

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Pomponius Mela

Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest known Roman geographer.

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Ponferrada

Ponferrada is a city of Spain, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Ponte Vella

Ponte Vella (Galician, "old bridge", Ponte Romana (Roman bridge), Ponte Maior (great bridge)) is a medieval footbridge built on Roman foundations in Ourense, Spain.

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Ponteareas

Ponteareas is a town and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Pontevedra

Pontevedra is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.

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Pontevedra Campus

The Pontevedra campus is one of three campuses that host the University of Vigo.

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Pontevedra CF

Pontevedra Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team in Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Pontevedra Feira Franca

The Feira Franca is a medieval festival held in Pontevedra (Spain) on Friday afternoon and Saturday of the first weekend in September.

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Pontevedra marina

The marina of Pontevedra (Pontevedra, Spain) is located at the mouth of the Lérez river in the ria de Pontevedra.

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The Popular Front (Frente Popular) was an electoral alliance and pact formed in January 1936 to contest that year's general election by various left-wing political organizations during the Second Spanish Republic.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Port of A Coruña

The Port of A Coruña is a port in A Coruña, Spain, on the Atlantic Ocean.

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Port of Marín and Ria de Pontevedra

The port of Marín and Ria de Pontevedra is located in the municipalities of Marín and Pontevedra, Galicia (Spain).

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Port of Vigo

Port of Vigo (Porto de Vigo, Puerto de Vigo) is located in Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.

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Portico of Glory

The Portico of Glory (Pórtico da Gloria) of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral is a Romanesque portico and the cathedral's main gate created by Master Mateo and his workshop, on the orders of King Ferdinand II of León.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Portuguese Restoration War

The Restoration War (Guerra da Restauração), historically known as the Acclamation War (Guerra da Aclamação), was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union.

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Portuguese-speaking world

The Portuguese-speaking world, also known as the Lusophone World (Mundo Lusófono), comprises the countries and territories in which the Portuguese language is an official, administrative, cultural, or secondary language.

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President of the Regional Government of Galicia

The president of the Regional Government of Galicia (Presidente da Xunta de Galicia, Presidente de la Xunta de Galicia), is the head of government of Galicia.

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Prestige oil spill

The Prestige oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil.

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PRISA

Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. (PRISA) is a Spanish media conglomerate headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.

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Proto-Celtic language

Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.

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Proto-Indo-European language

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.

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Province of A Coruña

The province of A Coruña (La Coruña; historical Corunna) is the northwesternmost province of Spain, and one of the four provinces which constitute the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Province of León

León is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Province of Lugo

Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Province of Mondoñedo

Province of Mondoñedo One of the seven provinces which existed in Galicia from the 15th Century till 1833; from that date onwards the number of provinces were reduced to four, and the entire Province of Mondoñedo was first divided into two halves and later absorbed and assimilated into the existing provinces of Lugo and A Coruña.

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Province of Ourense

Ourense (Orense) is a province of Spain, in the southeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Province of Pontevedra

Pontevedra is a province of Spain along the country's Atlantic coast in southwestern Europe.

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Province of Zamora

Zamora is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Provinces of Spain

A province in Spain.

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PSA Group

The PSA Group, legally known as Peugeot S.A. (Peugeot Société Anonyme, trading as Groupe PSA; formerly known as PSA Peugeot Citroën from 1991 to 2016) was a French multinational automotive manufacturing company which produced automobiles and motorcycles under the Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall brands.

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Public university

A public university or public college is a university or college that is owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government.

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Publicly funded health care

Publicly funded healthcare is a form of health care financing designed to meet the cost of all or most healthcare needs from a publicly managed fund.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Punta de Estaca de Bares

Punta da Estaca de Bares is the northernmost point of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula, at a latitude of 43° 47′ 38″ North.

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Quaternary glaciation

The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.

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Quaternary sector of the economy

The quaternary sector of the economy is based upon the economic activity that is associated with either the intellectual or knowledge-based economy.

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Queimada (drink)

Queimada is an alcoholic beverage of Galician tradition.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).

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Racing de Ferrol

Racing Club de Ferrol, commonly known as Racing de Ferrol, is a Spanish football team based in Ferrol, Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Ramón del Valle-Inclán

Ramón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña (born in Vilanova de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, on October 28, 1866, and died in Santiago de Compostela on January 5, 1936) was a Spanish dramatist, novelist, and member of the Spanish Generation of 98.

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Ramón María Narváez

Ramón María Narváez y Campos, 1st Duke of Valencia (5 August 179923 April 1868) was a Spanish general and statesman who served as Prime Minister on several occasions during the reign of Isabella II.

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Ramón Otero Pedrayo

Ramón Otero Pedrayo (alternative spelling Outeiro Pedraio) (Ourense, Galicia, 1888 - Ourense, 1976) was a Galician geographer, writer and intellectual.

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Ranked lists of Spanish autonomous communities

This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's 17 autonomous communities, as well as for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Galicia (Spain) and ranked lists of Spanish autonomous communities are autonomous communities of Spain.

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Rapini

Rapini or broccoli rabe is a green cruciferous vegetable, with the leaves, buds, and stems all being edible; the buds somewhat resemble broccoli, but do not form a large head.

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Ría de Arousa

The Ría de Arousa is a ria, a saline estuary in Galicia, Spain.

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Rías Altas

Rías Altas (also called "Upper Rias") is the northernmost of three sections of A Costa do Marisco (the Seafood Coast) in Galicia, Spain. Galicia (Spain) and Rías Altas are green Spain.

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Rías Baixas

The Rías Baixas (Galician for "Lower Rias") are a series of four estuarine inlets located on the southwestern coast of Galicia, Spain. Galicia (Spain) and Rías Baixas are green Spain.

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RC Celta de Vigo

Real Club Celta de Vigo, commonly known as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football.

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Real Audiencia

A Real Audience, or simply an Audience (Reial Audience, Audience Reial, or Audience), was an appellate court in Spain and its empire.

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Reapers' War

The Reapers' War (Guerra dels Segadors,; Guerra de los Segadores), also known as the Catalan Revolt, was a conflict that affected the Principality of Catalonia between the years of 1640 and 1659.

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Reconquista

The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest") or the reconquest of al-Andalus was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate.

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Redondela

Redondela is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Regional language

* A regional language is a language spoken in a region of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federated state or province or some wider area.

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Renfe

Renfe, officially Renfe-Operadora, is Spain's national state-owned railway company.

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Renfe Feve

Renfe Cercanías AM, formerly known as Renfe Feve, is a division of state-owned Spanish railway company Renfe Operadora.

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Representative assembly

A representative assembly is a political institution in which a number of persons representing the population or privileged orders within the population of a state come together to debate, negotiate with the executive (originally the king or other ruler) and legislate.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Retail

Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.

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Rexurdimento

The Rexurdimento (Galician for Resurgence) was a period in the History of Galicia during the 19th century.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Ria

A ria (ría, feminine noun derived from río, river) is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley.

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Ribadeo

Ribadeo is a municipality in the Spanish province of Lugo in Galicia.

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Ribeira Sacra (DO)

Ribeira Sacra is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) (Denominación de Orixe Protexida in Galician) for wines located in the south of the province of Lugo and in the north of the province of Ourense, in Galicia, Spain.

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Ribeira, Galicia

Ribeira is the capital of the comarca of Barbanza, in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.

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Ribeiro (DO)

Ribeiro is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) (Denominación de Orixe Protexida in Galician) for wines located in the northwest of the province of Ourense (Galicia, Spain), in the valleys formed by the Avia, Miño, and Arnoia rivers.

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Rivers of Galicia

The rivers of Galicia form part of a dense hydrographical network in the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia and has been described by Otero Pedrayo as “the land of a thousand rivers”.

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Rock (geology)

In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.

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Roe deer

The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer.

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Roll of arms

A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms.

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Roller hockey

Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using wheeled skates.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela

The Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela (Archidioecesis Compostellana) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Spain.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugo

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugo (Dioecesis Lucensis in Hispania) is a Latin Church see of the Catholic Church within Galicia, in north-western Spain, and one of the four suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol

The Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol (Dioecesis Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Spain.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Ourense

The Diocese of Ourense (Dioecesis Auriensis) is one of five Latin Church dioceses of the Catholic Church in Galicia, northwestern Spain.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Tui-Vigo

The Diocese of Tui-Vigo (Dioecesis Tudensis-Vicensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northwestern Spain.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman walls of Lugo

The Roman walls of Lugo are the ancient Roman defensive walls of the Roman colonia of Lucus Augusti –present-day Lugo, Spain–, in the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.

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Romanesque art

Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 12th century, or later depending on region.

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Romanization

In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.

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Rosalía de Castro

María Rosalía Rita de Castro (23 February 1837 – 15 July 1885), was a Galician poet and novelist, considered one of the most important figures of the 19th-century Spanish literature and modern lyricism.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.

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Royal Galician Academy

The Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega, RAG) is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language.

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Royal Galician Football Federation

The Royal Galician Football Federation (Real Federación Galega de Fútbol, Real Federación Gallega de Fútbol; RFGF) is the governing body of the sport of football in Galicia.

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Royal Spanish Academy

The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.

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Rubia Gallega

The Rubia Gallega, italic, is a breed of cattle native to the autonomous community of Galicia in north-western Spain.

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Rudesind

Saint Rudesind (San Rosendo, Rudesindo; São Rosendo Rudesindus) (November 26, 907 – March 1, 977) was a Galician bishop and abbot.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Salvador, Bahia

Salvador is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia.

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Sangre de Muerdago

Sangre de Muerdago is a neofolk galician band formed in Ourense but based in Leipzig (Germany).

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Santa Hermandad

Santa Hermandad ("holy brotherhood") was a type of military peacekeeping association of armed individuals, which became characteristic of municipal life in medieval Spain, especially in Castile.

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Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, in the province of A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.

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Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

The Santiago de Compostela Arch cathedral Basilica (Spanish and Galician: Catedral Basílica de Santiago de Compostela) is part of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela and is an integral component of the Santiago de Compostela World Heritage Site in Galicia, Spain.

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Santiago–Rosalía de Castro Airport

Santiago–Rosalía de Castro Airport (Aeroporto de Santiago-Rosalía de Castro, Aeropuerto de Santiago-Rosalía de Castro), previously named Lavacolla Airport and also known as Santiago de Compostela Airport, is an international airport serving the autonomous community and historic nationality of Galicia in Spain.

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Sanxenxo

Sanxenxo (Sangenjo) is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Saracen

German woodcut depicting Saracens Saracen was a term used both in Greek and Latin writings between the 5th and 15th centuries to refer to the people who lived in and near what was designated by the Romans as Arabia Petraea and Arabia Deserta.

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Savings bank (Spain)

In Spain, a savings bank (caja de ahorros or informally just caja, caixa d'estalvis, caixa de aforros, informally caixa, aurrezki kutxa) is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and granting loans.

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Sálvora

Sálvora Island (Illa de Sálvora; Isla de Sálvora) is a small island located on the Ría de Arousa, coast of Galicia, Spain.

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SD Compostela

Sociedade Deportiva Compostela is a Spanish football team based in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.

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Second Spanish Republic

The Spanish Republic, commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic, was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939.

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Secondary sector of the economy

In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing.

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Senate of Spain

The Senate (Senado) is the upper house of the, which along with the Congress of Deputies – the lower chamber – comprises the Parliament of the Kingdom of Spain.

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Senhorinha of Basto

Saint Senhorinha of Basto, also Senorina (Santa Senhorinha de Basto; 942 – 982) was a Portuguese Benedictine abbess in what is today northern Portugal.

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Separation of powers

The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.

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Serra dos Ancares

The Serra dos Ancares (Spanish: Sierra de los Ancares, also known as Sierra de Ancares) is a mountain range of the Galician Massif in north-west Spain, extending in a south-westerly direction from the western end of the Cantabrian Mountains in Asturias.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Sil (river)

The Sil is a river in León (Castile and León) and Galicia, Spain, a tributary of the Miño.

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Silkroad (arts organization)

Silkroad, formerly the Silk Road Project, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and flow of ideas.

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Siniestro Total

Siniestro Total (meaning literally 'total write-off' as in the insurance term for a vehicle that is beyond repair following a motor accident) is a Galician punk rock group from Vigo, Spain.

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Sobroso Castle

Sobroso Castle (Castillo de Sobroso, Castelo de Sobroso) is a medieval castle in the village of Vilasobroso in Galicia, Spain.

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Socialism

Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Socialists' Party of Galicia

The Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE; Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia, Partido de los Socialistas de Galicia) is a centre-left political party in Galicia, Spain.

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Solís Uprising

The Solís Uprising (Levantamiento de Solís) was an unsuccessful military uprising in Galicia (Spain) in 1846.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources.

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Spanish transition to democracy

The Spanish transition to democracy, known in Spain as la Transición or la Transición española, is a period of modern Spanish history encompassing the regime change that moved from the Francoist dictatorship to the consolidation of a parliamentary system, in the form of constitutional monarchy under Juan Carlos I.

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Special Protection Area

A special protection area (SPA) is a designation under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.

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Statute of autonomy

Nominally, a statute of autonomy (estatuto de autonomía, estatut d'autonomia, estatuto de autonomía, estatutu d'autonomía, autonomia estatutua) is a law hierarchically located under the constitution of a country and, usually, over any other form of legislation.

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Statute of Autonomy of Galicia of 1936

The Statute of Autonomy of Galicia of 1936 (Estatuto de autonomía de Galicia) was a statute of autonomy for Galicia.

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Statute of Autonomy of Galicia of 1981

The Statute of Autonomy of Galicia of 1981 (Estatuto de Autonomía de Galicia) is the current basic institutional norm of Galicia.

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.

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Suebi

The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Summer solstice

The summer solstice or estival solstice occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun.

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Surfing

Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.

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Susana Seivane

Susana Seivane Hoyo (born 25 August 1976) is a Galician musician.

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Suso de Toro

Xesús Miguel "Suso" de Toro Santos (born 10 January 1956) is a Spanish writer.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tambre

Tambre is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Belluno in the Italian region Veneto, located about north of Venice and about east of Belluno.

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Tanxugueiras

Tanxugueiras is a Galician folk trio formed in 2016 by Aida Tarrío and twin sisters Olaia and Sabela Maneiro.

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Tarta de Santiago

Torta de Santiago (in Galician) or Tarta de Santiago (in Spanish), literally meaning cake of St.

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Technocracy

Technocracy is a form of government in which the decision-makers are selected based on their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge.

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Telephone numbers in Spain

The Spanish telephone numbering plan is the allocation of telephone numbers in Spain.

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Televisión de Galicia

Televisión de Galicia ("Television of Galicia"; abbreviated as TVG), commonly known as A Galega ("The Galician "), is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Televisión de Galicia S.A., the television subsidiary of Galician regional-owned public broadcaster Corporación Radio e Televisión de Galicia (CRTVG).

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).

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Tetilla cheese

Tetilla, also known as Queso Tetilla, is a cow's-milk cheese produced in Galicia, Spain.

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The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band formed in Dublin in 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy.

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Timeline of Galician history

The following is a history of Galicia, a subsection of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn and atomic number 50.

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Total fertility rate

The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.

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Tower of Hercules

The Tower of Hercules (Torre de Hércules, Torre de Hércules) is the oldest known extant Roman lighthouse.

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Trevinca

Peña Trevinca (Pena Trevinca), also known as Trevinca, is a mountain in northern Spain.

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Triacastela

Triacastela is a municipality in the province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain.

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Triángulo de Amor Bizarro

Triángulo de Amor Bizarro is a Galician post-punk/indie rock band formed in 2004.

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Troubadour

A troubadour (trobador archaically: -->) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350).

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Tui, Pontevedra

Tui is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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TvG2

tvG2 (tvG Dous, previously G2) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Televisión de Galicia S.A., the television subsidiary of Galician regional-owned public broadcaster Corporación Radio e Televisión de Galicia (CRTVG).

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Ulla (river)

The Ulla (río Ulla in Galician and Spanish) is a river in Galicia, Spain.

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Umayyad Caliphate

The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.

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Unión Fenosa

Unión Fenosa, S.A. was, until its acquisition by Gas Natural in 2009, a large Spanish company dedicated to the production and distribution of gas and electricity.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the "one person, one vote" principle.

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University of A Coruña

The University of A Coruña (Universidade da Coruña) is a Spanish public university located in the city of A Coruña, Galicia.

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University of Santiago de Compostela

The University of Santiago de Compostela - USC (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - USC, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela - USC) is a public university located in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

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University of Vigo

The University of Vigo (Universidade de Vigo) is a public university located in the city of Vigo in the Province of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.

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Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.

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Valdeorras

Valdeorras is a comarca in the Galician Province of Ourense.

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Vandals

The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Verín

Verín is a town and municipality in the southeast of the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

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Vicente Risco

Vicente Martínez Risco Agüero (October 1, 1884 – April 30, 1963) was a Galician intellectual of the 20th century.

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Vigo

Vigo is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Vigo–Peinador Airport

Vigo International Airport is an airport from the centre of Vigo and is situated in the municipalities of Redondela, Vigo and Mos.

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Viking Festival of Catoira

Viking Festival of Catoira (Galician: Romaría viquinga de Catoira) is a secular festival which has been celebrated in Catoira, Spain, every first Sunday in August since 1961, in the surroundings of Castellum Honesti, currently known as Torres de Oeste (West Towers) fortress.

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Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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Vilagarcía de Arousa

Vilagarcía de Arousa is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in Galicia, Spain.

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Vilalba

Vilalba is a municipality in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Vilasobroso, Mondariz

Vilasobroso is a small village in the southwest of Galicia, Spain.

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Vinson Massif

Vinson Massif is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is long and wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains.

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Visigothic Kingdom

The Visigothic Kingdom, Visigothic Spain or Kingdom of the Goths (Regnum Gothorum) occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries.

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Visigoths

The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.

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Wenceslao Fernández Flórez

Wenceslao Fernández Flórez (1885 in A Coruña, Galicia – 29 April 1964 in Madrid) was a popular Galician journalist and novelist of the early 20th century.

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Wild boar

The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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Xinzo de Limia

Xinzo de Limia is a town and municipality in the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín

Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín (Ourense, 7 August 1938) is a Galician writer and poet and is widely considered the highest representative of contemporary Galician literature.

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Xunta de Galicia

The Xunta de Galicia ("Regional Government of Galicia") is the collective decision-making body of the government of the autonomous community of Galicia, composed of the President, the Vice-president(s) and the specialized ministers (Conselleiros).

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Xunta of the Kingdom of Galicia

The Xunta, Xunta General, Xuntas, or Cortes of the Kingdom of Galicia was the representative assembly of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 1528 —when it originated as a general assembly of all the powers of the Kingdom aimed at the constitution of hermandades (brotherhood)— and until 1834, when the Kingdom and its General Assembly were officially disbanded by a Royal decree.

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Yachting

Yachting is recreational boating activities using medium/large-sized boats or small ships collectively called yachts.

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Zara (retailer)

Zara is a fast-fashion retail subsidiary of the Spanish multinational fashion design, manufacturing, and retailing group Inditex.

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Zaragoza

Zaragoza also known in English as Saragossa,Encyclopædia Britannica is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain.

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.gal

.gal is a GeoTLD intended to highlight the Galician people, Galician language, and Galician culture.

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1833 territorial division of Spain

The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided the country into provinces, in turn classified into "historic regions" (regiones históricas).

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See also

Autonomous communities of Spain

Green Spain

Regions of Europe with multiple official languages

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Spain)

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