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	Iberian Peninsula -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The waves of migrating Celtic peoples from the 8th to 6th century BC onward settled heavily in northern and central Spain, penetrated Portugal and Galicia, but left the indigenous Bronze Age Iberian people of the south and east intact.
		Celto-Iberian was written in the Iberic script (borrowed from speakers of the non-Indo-European Iberian language in eastern and southern Spain) and is known primarily from a small number of coin inscriptions and an even smaller number of inscriptions on stone.
		The Pyrenees form an effective land barrier in the northeast from the rest of Europe, and in the south at Gibraltar the peninsula is...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275016 (830 words)

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		The region of Spain called Galicia, which occupies the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula between Portugal and the Bay of Biscay, gets its name from Callecia, given it by the ancient Romans because it was inhabited by the Celts.
		Being geographically remote, and one of the few parts of the Iberian Peninsula never to be occupied by the Muslims, under whom Jewish life in Spain thrived, Spanish Galicia never had any Jewish population to speak of.
		Eastern European Galicia, on the other hand, the name of an area that today corresponds to much of southern Poland and western Ukraine, is a different story, one rich in Jewish history and associations.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.07.06/arts4.html (806 words)

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		The region of Spain called Galicia, which occupies the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula between Portugal and the Bay of Biscay, gets its name from Callecia, given it by the ancient Romans because it was inhabited by the Celts.
		Being geographically remote, and one of the few parts of the Iberian Peninsula never to be occupied by the Muslims, under whom Jewish life in Spain thrived, Spanish Galicia never had any Jewish population to speak of.
		Eastern European Galicia, on the other hand, the name of an area that today corresponds to much of southern Poland and western Ukraine, is a different story, one rich in Jewish history and associations.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.07.06/arts4.html (806 words)

	Aboriginal languages of Spain 1:1i
		No relationship with other languages can be confidently assessed; among other proposals, links have been suggested with some of the Caucasian languages (whether with the Kartvelic or the Septentrional stock), with Hamitic (Numidian, Berber), with Iberian, etc. None of these proposals has been widely adopted.
		Their language is generally thought to be Iberian, or a variety of Iberian.
		Paradoxically, there is reason to think that in Northwestern lands the main language wasn't a Celtic one, even if the name of this region was in later times Gallaecia, Galicia.
	www.geocities.com /msanzledesma/ind_i1.htm (806 words)

	Spain: History
		Alaric II at Vouillé resulted in the loss by the Visigoths of most of Gaul; in the Iberian Peninsula, Belisarius temporarily reconquered (554) S Spain for the Byzantine Empire; however, the Visigoths soon regained S Spain and in 585 also conquered the kingdom of the Suevi in Galicia.
		A major reason for the Christian victory was that Christian Spain was in a stage of dynamic expansion and religious enthusiasm while Moorish Spain, having attained a high degree of civilization and material prosperity, had lost its military vigor and religious zeal.
		The expulsion of the Jews deprived Spain of part of its most useful and active population.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0861231.html (4273 words)

	Galicia Spain Information
		With a surface area of 30,000 square kilometres, undulating relief and wide valleys, Galicia is the oldest land on the Iberian Peninsula.
		Galicia: In the north-west corner of Spain, embraced by a sea carving out its coastline with fjord-like rias (estuaries), creating beaches and islands, surrounded by mountains that have isolated it throughout history we find this lush green emerald land, Galicia.
		The symbols of Galicia include the cruceiro- an elaborately carved stone cross on a tall column, and the horreo — sheds made of stone or wood with narrow slits, raised on stilts, for storing grain.
	www.totallyspain.com /spain_travel_information.asp?id=3 (1482 words)

	Galicia
		Galicia was colonized first by the ancient Celtics in the sixth century B.C. Along with most of the Iberian peninsula, Galicia was controlled by the Roman Empire for hundreds of years, until the barbarian invasions during the last part of the first millenium.
		Galicia was an important place for religious pilgrims from all over Europe because of the tomb of the apostle Saint James.
		The autonomous community of Galicia is located in the north-west of the country of Spain.
	www.spanport.ucsb.edu /faculty/mcgovern/Countries/Galicia/galicia.html (1482 words)

	Foundation for Endangered Languages: Iatiku Newsletter - GALICIA: a New Electronic List of Galician Culture
		Galicia is a country situated on the North-west coast of the Iberian Peninsula, on one of the several "Fines terrae" of Europe.
		GALICIA: a New Electronic List of Galician Culture
		As a consequence of this failure and the existence of complex cultural, social and political movements of defence of their own personality in Galicia, Euskadi and the Catalan Countries since the late eighteenth century, a new constitution was passed in 1978 in Spain.
	www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/FEL/i2/iatiku25.htm (1482 words)

	Chapter 4:The Individuality of Portugal
		The extreme northwest of Galicia is a region of rainfall in all months of the year and its total is the highest of any Iberian littoral, whereas the North Portuguese area, plus the extension into southwest Galicia, has less rainfall in total and a summer drought period (Fig.
		The second is the Beech Region, some of whose species are found mixed with those of the Holly Region in Iberia; the third, and farthest from the ocean, is the Oak Region, with which we shall not be concerned, as it does not extend into the peninsula.
		Secondly, many of the Mediterranean species follow the west coast up into southern Galicia, but most of them are not to be found in the northern zone.
	libro.uca.edu /stanislawski/Chap4.htm (1482 words)

	Music of Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The traditional music of Galicia is probably the least related to the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, although some similarities exist with the neighbouring areas of Asturias and Cantabria or Castille and northern Portugal and it is characterized by an extensive use of bagpipes.
		The 2/4 (or more rarely 3/4) alborada is also found in Galicia and Asturias; the term signifies a song at or to the sunrise, and is played at the beginning of a day's festivities.
		Certainly, Galicia is nowadays a strong player on the international Celtic folk scene; and as a result, elements of the pre-industrial Galician tradition have become integrated into the modern Celtic folk repertoire and style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Galicia,_Cantabria_and_Asturias (2464 words)

	Articles - Way of St. James
		Prior to its existence as a Catholic pilgrimage, the route is believed to also have had significance for the ancient pagan peoples of the Iberian peninsula, among them the Celts, and later the Romans who conquered northern Spain.
		To this day many of the pilgrims continue on from Santiago de Compostela to the Atlantic coast of Galicia to finish their pilgrimage at Cape Finisterre (Fisterra in Galician) which is almost the westernmost point of Europe.
		The Way of St James, or St James' Way, quite often known by its Spanish name the Camino de Santiago, is the pilgrimage to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in north-westernmost Spain where the apostle Saint James the Great is said to be laid to rest.
	www.acousticalworld.com /articles/Way_of_Saint_James (1101 words)

	Hispania:
		The Suevi established a kingdom in the northwestern corner of the peninsula (modern Galicia and northern Portugal).
		Hispania was the name given by the Romans to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar) and to two provinces created there in the period of the Roman Republic: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior.
		After gaining maximum importance this province was simply known as Tarraconensis and it comprised Gallaecia (modern Galicia and northern Portugal) and Asturias.
	winelib.com /wiki/Hispania (3574 words)

	Caledonia: A Light in the North
		The Iberian peninsula is divided between Moors of the Emirate of Córdoba and the Christians of the Kingdom of Asturias and Galicia.
		The Kingdom of Asturias and Galicia is the survivor of the former Visigothic Kingdom, a fusion of Hispano-Roman and Germanic peoples, which had dominated the peninsula for three centuries between the fall of Rome and the coming of the Moors.
		Emperor Louis II directly rules the kingdom of Italy, which he inherited from his father Lothar I, though large portions of the kingdom are under the control of Pope John VIII, based on lands granted to the papacy by Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.
	www.bol.ucla.edu /~smartin/caledonia/europe.html (1668 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spain
		These Visigoths, or Western Goths, after sacking Rome under the leadership of Alaric (410), turned towards the Iberian Peninsula, with Ataulf for their leader, and occupied the north-eastern portion, which thereafter received the name of Gotha-landia (Catalaunia, later Catalonia).
		Valia extended his rule over most of the Peninsula, keeping the Suevians shut up in Galicia.
		The Vandals, after establishing themselves in Baetica, to which they gave the name of Vandalusia (Andalusia), passed on into Africa, while the Visigoths hemmed in the Suevi in Galicia until the latter were completely brought under control.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14169b.htm (17294 words)

	Portuguese-Galician - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Galician-Portuguese (known as galaico-português or galego-português in Portuguese and galaico-portugués and galego-portugués in Galician) was an Iberian Romance language, spoken in the Middle Ages, in the western area of the Iberian Peninsula.
		Portuguese-Galician had a special cultural role in the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula which can be seen in its literature.
		The Galician dialect of the language group is still spoken by more than three million people in Galicia, while the Portuguese dialect continues to grow in use, and today is the sixth most spoken language in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portuguese-Galician (478 words)

	Portugal : Geography, Portugal, Europe
		The Iberian Peninsula is a geographic unit that contains a number of distinct regions based on climate and geomorphology, such as Andalusia, Castile, Galicia, and Lusitania.
		Portugal is Europe's south-westernmost country on the Iberian Peninsula Fine beaches, a temperate year-round climate, mouth-watering gastronomy and friendly people are just a few of the ingredients that spice up the experience of visiting this country.
		Portugal is roughly a rectangle in shape; 561 km (350 miles) long and an average of 188 km (117 miles) wide.
	www.hotels-romania.com /site/portu_73066.htm (442 words)

	Celtic Origins
		Galicia (A Galiza), an autonomous community within the Kingdom of Spain, is situated on the coast at the northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula at the very western end of the European Continent.
		The impact of Romanization in A Galiza was relatively low when compared to the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, and the influence from the Moorish culture was, also, not as intense as in other parts of Spain.
		A Galiza is known in Spain as the ‘land of the 1000 rivers’ because the region is crossed by rivers running from the mountainous inland to the coasts where they from the characteristic rías or estuaries which are like wider, elongated and somewhat flattened fjords.
	groups.msn.com /CelticOrigins/geography2.msnw (1368 words)

	Chapter 1: St. James's Catapult
		Galicia is cut off from the central tableland, or meseta, of the Iberian peninsula by a chain of mountains.
		Communication between Galicia and the central tableland has always been difficult.
		It is with the region on the Atlantic side of this formidable barrier that this chapter will be concerned, an area which now embraces the four Galician provinces of Spain -- Lugo, La Coruña, Pontevedra and Orense.
	libro.uca.edu /sjc/sjc1.htm (1368 words)

	vine_route2
		All the monasteries of Galicia began to grow vineyards around the Avia, Miño and Arnoia, that is to say in the Ribeiro, and thus created a special place within the Iberian Peninsula.
		With the arrival of the Cister Order on the Iberian Peninsula came an unprecedented agricultural revolution, affecting the Monastery of San Clodio which became Benedictine and was incorporated into the Cister Order.
		Close to San Clodio is the cellar, vineyard and hotel of Viña Mein.
	www.geocities.com /a7one/vine_route2.html (1368 words)

	WAVES - Record 6 of 6
		Ichthyoplankton samples were collected in a monthly basis at three locations off the N-NW Iberian peninsula (Cantabrian Sea and Galicia) from 1987-1989 with the aim of studying the seasonal cycle of spawning of relevant commercial species.
		Seasonal occurrence of pelagic fish eggs and larvae in the Cantabrian Sea (VIIIc) and Galicia (IXa) from 1987 to 1989
		In this paper it is shown the spawning seasonality-as inferred from egg and larval occurrence and abundance data-of 4 pelagic species of commercial importance in the area: Pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus), horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) and mackerel (Scomber scombrus).
	inter01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /WAVES/DDW?W=ABSTRACT++PH+WORDS+%2715C%27&M=6&K=119870&R=Y&U=1 (1368 words)

	My Lines - Person Page 136
		Alfonso III "el Magno", rey de Asturias was buried in the Church of Saint Mary, Oviedo, Asturias, Iberian peninsula.
		Rey de Galicia y de León Bermudo II Ordoñez "el Gotoso" was buried in Villabeuna, in the Bierzo, on the border of León and Galicia, Spain.
		Ordoño Iº, rey de Asturias was born circa 815 in León.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cousin/html/p136.htm (6384 words)

	Historical references
		During the Roman domination of the Iberian peninsula, Gallaecia was one of the provinces of Hispania, that comprised the territories of Galicia -from which its name stems- part of Leon and Asturias and North of Portugal.
		The Romans began their invasion of Galicia in 138 B.C. and in 60 B.C. Julius Caesar disembarked in Coruña (Brigantium), but it wasn't until the time of Octavius Augustus in 22 B.C. that the domination of the country was completed, marking the beginning of Roman control that lasted four centuries.
		It was the so-called First Government Junta, the starting point of a period of ongoing war on land and sea, first to win and then to sustain Independence, which put an end to the Spanish power in South America in 1826.
	www.cdtradition.net /historical-references.php (6384 words)

	Believe If You Can
		Gaedhael’s people came from Scythia, lived in Egypt for a time, were evicted from there, and then dominated the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe.
		The lighthouse in La Coruña in Galicia, on the northwest coast of Spain, is called the Tower of Hercules, because it was built by Hercules over the bones of the giant Gerión after he killed him in combat.
		Even now, some people swear that if you stand on the highest mountains in Galicia — over a mile high — you can see this small green island 900 kilometres north of La Coruña.
	www.atlanticbridge.net /publishing/believeexcerpt.htm (6384 words)

	Lombardero1.htm
		On the other hand, there are no signs of this class of culture (culture of the hillforts or castrexa as it is called) in the Iberian Peninsula, outside the corner of the Northwest, which eliminates the possibility of a Celtiberian origin.
		Once their mission was fulfilled in Egypt, and after a brief return to Scythia, they went to Spain, which they conquered by the force of arms (according to declarations of Irish aristocrats, fled in 1601 after the battle of Kinsale, the conquest would be made beginning by Galicia, which was followed by Asturias and Biscay.
		The kind of Celts who took Galicia was, very demonstrably, a handful of peripheral people, that came here by sea, from outside the centres of what by then constituted the European Celtic culture.
	lombardero.galeon.com /Lombardero1.htm (6384 words)

	portugal
		The Portuguese are said to be the descendants of the Lusitanians, a Celticized group of people who settled in the western part of the Iberian Peninsula, which is now Portugal and the Spanish province of Galicia.
		Modern Portuguese was born in the north of Portugal and Galicia.
		That is, as a Portuguese person, I am not "related to or derived from the culture of Spain or of Spain and Portugal." I’m related to or derived from the culture of Portugal alone —- NOT of BOTH Spain and Portugal.
	www.angelfire.com /country/portugal (3179 words)

	"¡Ay! Ribadavia"
		This, however, is the case in much of the Iberian Peninsula; in fact, there seems to be as much effort put into recuperating its Jewish past as there formerly was to eradicating what was its Jewish present.
		One might see the Ribadavia events as just another few in the series; however, the organizers are quite clear that their event was conceived independently and that, in fact, the 1992 events were not particularly noted in Galicia, certainly not in their corner of it.
		Ribadavia is an inland town of some 3000 souls near Orense in Galicia, on the Avia River which gave it its name.
	www.sibetrans.com /trans/transiberia/cohen.htm (4124 words)

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