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Vigo is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in Galicia, northwest Spain on the Atlantic Ocean. [1]

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A Coruña

A Coruña (is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second most populated city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña is a busy port located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It provides a distribution point for agricultural goods from the region.

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A Nosa Terra

A Nosa Terra (in italic) was a Galician newspaper in Galician language, first founded in 1907 in A Coruña, Spain.

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Abel Caballero

Abel Ramón Caballero Álvarez (born 2 September 1946) is a Spanish professor of Economics and the current Mayor of Vigo.

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Aerolíneas Federales

Aerolíneas Federales was a Spanish pop/rock band from the decade of the 80's.

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Agencia Estatal de Meteorología

Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, AEMET (translated from Spanish as the State Meteorological Agency) is Spain's meteorological agency operating under the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

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Alcalde

Alcalde, or Alcalde ordinario, is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

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Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.

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Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals

The Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal; PACMA) is a Spanish political party founded in Bilbao on 24 February 2003.

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Antonio M. Pérez

Antonio Manuel Pérez Álvarez (born 1947) is a businessman from Spain, former CEO of Eastman Kodak Company, based in Rochester, New York, in the United States.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.

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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 autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

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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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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma, autonomia erkidegoa, comunitat autònoma, comunidade autónoma, comunautat autonòma) is a first-level 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.

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Baiona, Pontevedra

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

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Battle of Vigo Bay

The Battle of Vigo Bay, also known as the Battle of Rande, was a naval engagement fought on 23 October 1702 during the opening years of the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Northern Italy.

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Brazilians

Brazilians (brasileiros in Portuguese) are citizens of Brazil.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of Saint James among other names, is a network of pilgrims' ways serving pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saint are buried.

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Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated.

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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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Captain Nemo

Captain Nemo—also known as Prince Dakkar—is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905).

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Capture of Vigo

The Capture of Vigo also known as the British Expedition to Vigo occurred in October 1719 during the War of the Quadruple Alliance when a British expedition made a descent on the Spanish coast.

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Caracas

Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and centre of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela.

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Carlos Núñez Muñoz

Carlos Núñez Muñoz (born 1971) is a Galician 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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Casto Méndez Núñez

Casto Secundino María Méndez Núñez (July 1, 1824 – August 21, 1869), Spanish military naval officer.

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Castro fortress

The fortress of the Castro was built in 1665 during a war in front of Portugal (1640-1668) trying to protect the city from the continuous attacks coming from the British navy allies of Portugal.

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Castros (Spain)

A castro is a fortified settlement, usually pre-Roman, some from late Bronze Age and Iron Age, the oldest research associated with the Celtic culture.

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Cíes Islands

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

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Colombians

Colombians (colombianos in Spanish), are citizens of Colombia.

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Comarcas of Spain

In Spain traditionally and historically, some autonomous communities are also divided into comarcas (sing. comarca).

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Commitment to Galicia

Commitment to Galicia (Spanish: Compromiso por Galicia, CxG) is a Galician political party with a Galician nationalist, progressive and socialdemocratic ideology.

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Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España) is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Spain.

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Communist Unification of Spain

Communist Unification of Spain (Unificación Comunista de España, Espainiako Batasun Komunista) is a political party in Spain.

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Concepcion Picciotto

Concepción Picciotto (born María de la Inmaculada Concepción Martín; 15 January 1936 – 25 January 2016), also known as Conchita or Connie, was a Spanish-born, United States-based peace activist.

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Container

A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and shipping.

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Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.

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Das Boot

Das Boot (German: "The Boat") is a 1981 German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Durango City

Durango, officially Victoria de Durango and also known as Ciudad de Durango, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Durango.

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Economy of Galicia

Galicia's two major economic poles are A Coruña and Vigo, with A Coruña in the lead, producing an estimated 33.2% of VAT receipts against 24.3% from Vigo.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles Moya (12 February 1955 – 3 July 2000) was a Spanish architect.

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Equo

Equo (also spelled Q, or eQuo) is a Spanish political party founded on 4 June 2011, when 35 different Spanish green parties agreed to merge into EQUO.

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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 route E01

The European route E 01 is a series of roads in Europe, part of the United Nations International E-road network, running from Larne, United Kingdom to Seville, Spain.

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Faro de Vigo

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

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Ferrol, Galicia

Ferrol (In the neighbourhood of Strabo's Cape Nerium, modern day Cape Prior), is a city in the Province of A Coruña in Galicia, on the Atlantic coast in north-western Spain.

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First French Empire

The First French Empire (Empire Français) was the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte of France and the dominant power in much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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Fornelos de Montes

Fornelos de Montes is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake (– 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975.

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Francisco Marcó del Pont

Francisco Casimiro Marcó del Pont Ángel Díaz y Méndez (1770 – May 19, 1819) was a Spanish soldier and the last Governor of Chile.

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French Army

The French Army, officially the Ground Army (Armée de terre) (to distinguish it from the French Air Force, Armée de L'air or Air Army) is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.

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FVPR El Olivo

Federación Viguesa de Peñas Recreativas El Olivo, Sección Deportiva is a Spanish sports club from Vigo founded in 1991.

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Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galician: Galicia, Galiza; Galicia; Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.

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Galician Coalition

Galician Coalition (Galician: Coalición Galega, CG) is a political party in Galiza with a Galician nationalist and centrist ideology.

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Galician language

Galician (galego) is an Indo-European language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch.

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Galician Nationalist Bloc

The Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego, BNG) is a political coalition of left-wing Galician nationalist parties.

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Galician People's Front

The Galician People's Front (Frente Popular Galega) is a Galician political organization with a socialist and independentist ideology.

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Garcia Barbon Theatre

Garcia Barbon theatre was built in the late nineteenth century in the centre of Vigo, a city in Northwestern Pontevedre, Galicia Spain.

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German submarine U-96

U-96 may refer to one of the following German submarines.

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Golpes Bajos

Golpes Bajos was a 1980s pop group in Spain, a part of the so-called "Edad de Oro del Pop Español", i.e. "The Golden Age of Spanish Pop Music".

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Gondomar, Pontevedra

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

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Groupe PSA

Groupe PSA (informally PSA; PSA Group in English; formerly known as PSA Peugeot Citroën from 1991 to 2016) is a French multinational manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles sold under the Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall brands.

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Humanist Party (Spain)

The Humanist Party (Partido Humanista) is a Spanish political party founded in 1984 and is a member of the Humanist International.

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Iago Falque

Iago Falque Silva (born 4 January 1990) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Torino.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)

The National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE) is the official organisation in Spain that collects statistics about demography, economy, and Spanish society.

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Isabella I of Castile

Isabella I (Isabel, 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504) reigned as Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death.

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Iván Ferreiro

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

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Jacobitism

Jacobitism (Seumasachas, Seacaibíteachas, Séamusachas) was a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England and Ireland (as James VII in Scotland) and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland.

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Joanna la Beltraneja

Joanna la Beltraneja (21 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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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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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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Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography.

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La Liga

The Primera División, commonly known as La Liga and as La Liga Santander for sponsorship reasons with Santander, is the men's top professional football division of the Spanish football league system.

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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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Las Palmas

Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a city and capital of Gran Canaria island, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lorient

Lorient is a town (French "commune") and seaport in the Morbihan "department" of Brittany in North-Western France.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Manuel Manquiña

Manuel Juan Francisco del Cristo de la Victoria Prieto Comesaña aka Manuel Manquiña (born 2 August 1953 in Vigo, Galicia) is a Spanish actor.

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Marea de Vigo

Marea de Vigo (Tide of Vigo in Galician language) is a citizen movement and political alliance set up in the city of Vigo that runs a left-wing "popular unity" candidacy to the municipal elections of May 2015.

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Martin Codax

Martin 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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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Mayor–council government

The mayor–council government system is a system of organization of local government.

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Metro International

Metro International is a Swedish global media company based in Luxembourg that publishes the Metro newspapers. Metro International's advertising sales have grown at a compound annual growth rate of 41 percent since launch of the first newspaper edition in 1995.http://hugin.info/132142/R/1125327/208539.pdf It is a freesheet, meaning that distribution is free, with revenues thus generated entirely through advertising. This newspaper is primarily intended for commuters who move daily in and out of big cities' business areas, mainly during rush hours. The company was founded by Per Andersson and started as a subsidiary of the Modern Times Group along with Viasat Broadcasting. It is now controlled through the Mats Qviberg owned investment company Custos. The first edition of the newspaper was published as Metro Stockholm and distributed in the Stockholm metro., all European editions (except for the Hungarian one) have been sold, reportedly so that Metro International can focus on Latin America, considered the last growth market for free newspapers.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Moaña

Moaña is a municipality of 18,709 inhabitants located in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Mondays in the Sun

Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) is a 2002 Spanish drama film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, starring Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar and José Ángel Egido.

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Mos, Spain

Mos is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra and next to Vigo.

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo (Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, abbreviated MARCO) is an art museum in Vigo, Spain.

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Narsaq

Narsaq is a town in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland.

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Nigrán

Nigrán is a municipality of Galicia, Spain in Pontevedra Province, near Vigo, the most populous city in Galicia.

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O Porriño

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

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Olive

The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands and Réunion.

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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 in northwestern Spain, the capital of the province of the same name in Galicia.

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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 the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Parroquia (Spain)

A parroquia is a population entity or parish found in Galicia and Asturias in north-west Spain.

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Pazos de Borbén

Pazos de Borbén is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire (as well as the allied powers of the Spanish Empire), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal, for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.

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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-right political party in Galicia, Spain.

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Percentage point

A percentage point or percent point (pp) is the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages.

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Pescanova

Pescanova, S.A. is a Spanish fishing company based in Redondela, Galicia.

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Philip IV of Spain

Philip IV of Spain (Felipe IV; 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665) was King of Spain (as Philip IV in Castille and Philip III in Aragon) and Portugal as Philip III (Filipe III).

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Pirate Party of Galicia

Pirates of Galicia (Piratas de Galicia, PIRATA.GAL), is a political party in Galicia, Spain.

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Pontevedra

Pontevedra is a Spanish city in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Port of Vigo

Port of Vigo (Porto de Vigo, Puerto de Vigo) located in Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain is the biggest fishing port in the world and one of the busiest in transportation.

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Porto

Porto (also known as Oporto in English) is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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Primera División (women)

The Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, formerly Superliga Femenina, and known for reasons of sponsorship as Liga Femenina Iberdrola is the highest level of league competition for Spanish women's football.

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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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Provinces of Spain

Spain and its autonomous communities are divided into fifty provinces (provincias,; sing. provincia).

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Radio Nacional de España

Radio Nacional de España (RNE) (National Radio of Spain) is Spain's national public radio service.

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Ramón Souto

Ramón Souto Caride (born April 21, 1976 in Vigo, Spain) is a Spanish composer.

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Rías Baixas

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

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RC Celta de Vigo

Real Club Celta de Vigo (Royal Club Celta de Vigo), commonly known as Celta Vigo or simply Celta, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, currently playing in La Liga.

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Redondela

Redondela is a town in the province of Pontevedra, Galicia, northwestern Spain.

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Ria de Vigo

Vigo Ria (Ría de Vigo) is an estuary in Galicia, Spain.

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Ricardo Mella

Ricardo Mella Cea (April 13, 1861 – August 7, 1925) was one of the first writers, intellectuals and anarchist activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Spain.

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Roberto Losada

Roberto Losada Rodríguez (born 25 October 1976) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.

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Rock (geology)

Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.

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Roll-on/roll-off

Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Salceda de Caselas

Salceda de Caselas is a municipality in Galicia, Spain, in the province of Pontevedra.

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Salvaterra de Miño

Salvaterra de Miño is a municipality (concello) in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Samil Beach

Samil Beach (Praia de Samil, Playa de Samil) is the principal beach of Vigo in Galicia in north-west Spain.

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Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.

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Serafín Avendaño

Serafín Xoaquín Avendaño Martínez (12 October 1838 – 23 August 1916) was a Galician landscape and genre painter who spent many years living in Italy.

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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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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Socialists' Party of Galicia

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

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Son (political party)

SON is a Galician political party created in 2015, promoted by Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood and United Left to participate in the local elections of the same year.

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Soutomaior

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

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Spanish local elections, 2015

The 2015 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect all 67,515 councillors in the 8,122 municipalities of Spain and all 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations.

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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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The Portuguese Way

The Portuguese Way (Camino Portugués, Caminho Português) is the name of the Way of St. James pilgrimage routes starting in Portugal.

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Tui, Pontevedra

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

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World") is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870.

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Union, Progress and Democracy

Union, Progress and Democracy (Unión Progreso y Democracia, UPyD) is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007.

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United Left (Galicia)

Esquerda Unida, EU is the Galician federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left.

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University of Vigo

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

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Vehicle

A vehicle (from vehiculum) is a machine that transports people or cargo.

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Vigo (comarca)

Vigo is a comarca in the Galician province of Pontevedra.

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Vigo metropolitan area

Vigo Metropolitan Area located in Galicia (Spain) is formed by the city of Vigo and the surrounding municipalities of Baiona, Cangas, Fornelos de Montes, Gondomar, Moaña, Mos, Nigrán, O Porriño, Pazos de Borbén, Redondela, Salceda de Caselas, Salvaterra de Miño and Soutomaior.

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Vigo–Peinador Airport

Vigo Airport is east from the centre of Vigo, and is situated in the municipalities of Redondela, Vigo and Mos, Spain.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Zero Cuts

Zero Cuts (Recortes Cero) is a Spanish party alliance, initially founded as a group of electors, formed to contest the 2014 European Parliament election.

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20 minutos

20 minutos is a Spanish free newspaper, with local editions in several Spanish cities, published by Multiprensa & Mas S.L..

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2016–17 La Liga

The 2016–17 La Liga season, also known as La Liga Santander for sponsorship reasons, was the 86th since its establishment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

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