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  ipedia.com: Galicia (Spain) Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the 5th century invasions, Galicia fell to the Suevi, in 411 CE, who loosely held it until it was annexed to the Visigothic dominions of Leovigild in 585.
During the 9th and 10th centuries the counts of Galicia owed fluctuating obedience to their nominal suzerain, and Normans occasionally raided the coasts.
In 1072 it was forcibly reannexed by Garcia's brother Alphonso VI of Castile and from that time Galicia remained an integral part of the kingdom of Castile and Leon.
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 Rudolph I - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
His wife was an heiress; and on the death of his childless uncle, Hartmann VI.
Rudolph was crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle on the 24th of October 1273, and the feast which followed has been described by Schiller in Der Graf von Hapsburg.
In November 1274 it was decided by the diet at Nuremberg that all crown estates seized since the death of the emperor Frederick II.
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 Spain encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Spain politics and officials, Spain History. Travel to Spain
Galiza is the older form and is found in the earliest texts written in the Galician-Portuguese language, while Galicia gained currency after the region came under the control of the kingdoms of León and later Castile.
In 1072, it was forcibly reannexed by Garcia\'s brother Alphonso VI of Castile, and from that time Galicia remained part of the kingdom of Castile and Leon, although under differing degrees of self-government.
The final episode of Galician independence, up to today, was the dynastic conflict between Isabella of Castile and Xoana, called "a beltranexa" ("Daughter of Beltrán", and not to be confused with Juana the Crazy (Joanna of Castile)).
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 Galicia (Spain) - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The most notable was by the troubadour Martín Codax and King Alfonso X of Castile, called El Sabio (The Wise).
In 1063, Ferdinand I of Castile and León divided his kingdom among his sons.
Galician nationalist and federalist movements arose in the nineteenth century, and after the second Spanish Republic was declared in 1931, Galicia became an autonomous region following a referendum.
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 Books: Online Literature Library - OneLang.com
Castile and Leon, who marched to the gates of Seville, and
Jew, who was one of the envoys of Alphonso.
become ``abbeys'' till the reign of Henry VI.
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