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In the News (Thu 16 Oct 08)

  
  unsaved:///Pagina nueva 2.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The annexation of Galiza and Brittany to Spain and France was not negotiated.
Galiza and Brittany had their economical splendour in the Middle Ages, when the maritime trade was flourishing.
Galiza and Brittany have territorial vindications as an important part of their nationalism (especially Brittany), whereas Scotland has never had this problem.
perso.wanadoo.es /marco.velez/filoloxi/essays/national.htm   (3890 words)

  
 Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galicia (spelt identically in Galician and Spanish) is an autonomous community with the status of Historic Nationality in the northwest of Spain.
Some sectors of public opinion favour the promotion of "Galiza" as an alternative, and some say earlier, spelling of the country's name in Galician.
While the Royal Galician Academy has recently recognised this variant (identical to the region's name in Portuguese), it is not officially used by public bodies at a national or regional level.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galiza   (1835 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.
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.
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.
groups.msn.com /CelticOrigins/geography2.msnw   (1368 words)

  
 Gal99.htm
Its beginnings can be placed in the Old Kingdom of Galiza created by the Germanic people of the suave that in 409 came to the them roman province of Galleacia, (were the romans had convinced them to come, believing they will left quit the rest of the empire that they use to put to sack).
The inaccessibility, by land, of the West side of the Celto-iberian peninsula is the result of a natural mountain chain formation that isolated Galiza and also Portugal from Spain.
The subtract people are goidelic Celts in the historical Galiza (including North of Portugal) with inluency zone going back well south in today Portugal, the Iberians the rest of the peninsula.
www.umoncton.ca /soeler/celtic.htm   (911 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 6.983: Linguistic separatism
As for Galiza, to the extent that the Spanish state is able to keep the lid on the language issue by taming the language of Galiza (Portuguese) and turning it into a domestic "Galician", no problem -- Galiza won't reach the news.
Galiza, as many other minorized cultures of the world, is caught between two states: Spain and Portugal.
What the Kingdom of Spain and, particularly, its representatives in Galiza (the majority of the local political and intellectual elites) can't cope with is the fact that another state's language, Portuguese, is spoken (and written as such, by a small fraction of the elites) within Spanish territory.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/6/6-983.html   (556 words)

  
 The Galaic Celtic League
Galiza´s Main Celtic Organization that includes all Celtic territories in historical Galiza: Galiza, Alem Minho as well the East border Galaic Celtic Tribes : Navea, Berço, Senabra, Portelas.
Galiza is one of the seven Celtic countries, lying in the NW corner of the Celto-Iberian peninsula, and to who historically belongs a larger area.
Galiza has conserved the most purest and oldest of the Celtic traditions of all the Celtic countries, even when its goidelic Celtic language has had it last speaker in the XVI century.
www.umoncton.ca /soeler/galiza/celtic_galiza.htm   (201 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Galiza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Galiza or Galicia (Galego-Português: Galiza, Spanish: Galicia) is an autonomous community in the northwest of Spain.
The spoken languages are Galician, or Galego (the historical language derived from Latin) and Spanish (officialised by Spanish government).
Before Roman invasion, a series of tribes lived on the region, having—according to Strabo, Pliny, Herodotus and others—a similar culture and customs.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Galiza   (1372 words)

  
 Emails
Galiza lies about the same latitude as Saint Johns on the other side of the Atlantic, the prominent Cap Finisterre it is well know to all sailors and the bottle with Ashleys message was found not to far from there.
Ashley Harvey, from Saint Johns, Newfoundland, was on quest of friends and finally she found one on the ancient Galiza.
Ashley Harvey, with a picture of all the students of the class and a map of this shore of Galiza, which is known with the Celtic name of - The Coast of Death - (A Costa da Morte).
www.vieiros.com /botella/emails.html   (2494 words)

  
 Untitled
Corunha is one of the most important cities in the NW Iberia, and the second top city in Galiza (150,000 inhabitants).
The island of Arousa is situated in SW Galiza, in the area knowed as 'Rias Baixas', just in the middle of the Ria de Arousa.
Cangas do Morrazo is a coastal village (15,000 inhabitats), situated in the SW corner of Galiza and in the N shore of the Ria de Vigo.
www.ping.be /~pin02658/WhtwMedGalizia.htm   (2071 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
Dane Winston Galiza, dressed in his Army uniform, walked out of a dark Saigon alley and heard a loud voice yell "Halt." He saw the white faces of American military police, their guns pointed at his Asian face.
Galiza became a victim of what Hawaii psychologist Chalsa Loo has coined "RAR" -- Rude Awakening to Racism, a phenomenon Loo has discovered during interviews with Asian-American Vietnam veterans from Hawaii.
Galiza watched Vietnamese children run up to Americans and try to sell sodas.
starbulletin.com /98/07/24/news/story4.html   (716 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Se se quere iniciar o imprescindibel cambio político na Galiza, cun cambio de governo na Xunta, é tamén imprescindibelmente necesario depurar e hixienizar o aparello institucional instaurando unha política de tolerancia cero con posíbeis prácticas corruptas.
Pero non se pode aspirar a dar ese cambio, que Galiza tanto precisa, a cambio de silenciar, obviar e consentir ese fenómeno que nos coloca á altura dunha república bananera dos anos 70.
Galiza merece máis que iso, e non todo vale.
www.xente.mundo-r.com /arroutada/opinion/artigos/nontodovale.html   (319 words)

  
 CMI Galiza - Galiza Indymedia
But it might be taked into account that more of the third part of those dismissals were assumed by the Galician shipyards of Bazán (Ferrol) and ASTANO (Fene) extending the crisis to the region wich was declared Industrial Zone in Declivity.
And this happens in a country like Galiza, clasified as Region Objective 1 in the European cohesion plans.
Redada da Guardia Civil contra o independentismo na Galiza.- 7 pessoas detidas.
prod.galiza.indymedia.org /en   (1443 words)

  
 Rare Birds in Spain: Recent Reports
On 26.12, 2-3 birds flying among the waves near the Lançada beach, Ogrobe, Galiza.
At Combarro, Ria de Pontevedra, Galiza, 2 birds were seen on 11.12 (Daniel Serrano).
A 1st winter male was found at Laxe (Laje) harbour, A Corunha, Galiza on 12.12.2000 (Communicated by Eduardo de Juana).
www.rarebirdspain.net /arbsr012.htm   (1834 words)

  
 Protest in front of the Spanish Embassy (Dublin) - Dublin Anti-War - Indymedia Ireland
On May 29th, the Spanish army is celebrating a parade in the Galician city of Corunna (A Crunha), with full paraphernalia.
On May 29th, the Spanish army is celebrating a parade in the Galician city of Corunna (Corunha), with full paraphernalia.
Galiza is like Ireland, and O Bierzo like the Ulster.
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=69762   (1198 words)

  
 The Honolulu Advertiser | Island Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Allen Galiza of Kalihi has been sold on CD burners — those cool gizmos that let you make your own CDs — for some time now.
What sold him was a gut-wrenching loss of data on his Iomega Zip Drive (because of a device failure known wryly in the digital kingdom as the Click of Death).
Galiza said he favors burners — properly known as “CD-recordable” (CD-R) drives — for storing everything from music to family photos.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Feb/25/islandlife1.html   (954 words)

  
 [Imc-europe] Re: liaison role change - IMC Galiza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Previous message: [Imc-europe] liaison role change - IMC Galiza
ES] > > Dear all: > > As the current liaison of IMC-Galiza, I proposed the change of that role > wich will be commited by another IMC voluntaire from now.
He will progressively > asks for subscribing those lists in order to provide him the softest > possible earhtake to the Global Indymedia World ;) > > Mundo is one of the individuals who contributed to put IMC Galiza on > air from the first moments.
lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-europe/2005-May/0504-tx.html   (373 words)

  
 NORDESíA PRODUCCIóNS :: info :: Cantos na Maré
A bridge built with raw materials of music and sound, but above all built with the soul of all those who take part in this project with great passion and devotion because, for them, language will always be the passport of the soul.
Filipa unites with her voice fado, morna and the popular music of Portugal,but also brings an affinity to Brazil, where she has performed and made contact with many important musicians.
The voices and percussion of Cabo Verde open the show, bringing the sea air of these islands to the stage, passing en route the fishing port of Burela in north Galiza where these women have lived and worked for many years.
www.nordesia.com /info/030814mare-02_en.html   (425 words)

  
 MSU News -- Silenced by language: Professor explores Spanish Civil War literature
Galiza, annexed in the 14th century, is one of several autonomous regions of Spain like the Basque country or Catalonia.
Thompson's interest in Galiza began when a distant family member invited him to leave Billings Senior High School for a year in Spain.
When in Galiza, his lectures were broadcast on radio and praised in newspaper reviews.
www.montana.edu /news/1120570682.html   (645 words)

  
 Racial make-up of Latin Americans? [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Galiza is a country in the actual Spanish State with very dependent rule to the central government.
Galiza was the first, the oldest independent kingdom of Europe.
Galiza is the most forgotten of the seven Celtic countries.
www.stormfront.org /forum/archive/index.php/t-23728   (13448 words)

  
 Les Pénélopes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Women in Galiza are currently analysing the impact of the Catastrophe of the Prestige in their lives and their communities.
Women's World March from Galiza announced during the ESF a Women's European mobilization that will take place in Vigo, Galiza during the 21th and 22th of May 2004.
Galiza is as well a peripherical place, far away from the centre of the European power.
www.penelopes.org /Anglais/article.php3?id_article=657   (591 words)

  
 ES03ESES.03 GALIZA POLITICAL/PHYSICAL WALL MAP 1:285K
DETAILS: The physical-political version of Galiza shows the autonomic community with orographical and bathymetrical relief shading, main populations as well as vias of communication.
The economical version shows the economy of the area, overlaying on the base of the kinds of soil, all the symbols referring to industry, energy, commerce, fishing, etc.
The projections and scales are those normally used in didactical cartography and are adapted to the features of every area shown, bearing in mind as much its hemispherical location as its horizontal or vertical format.
www.fourone.com /es/es03es03.htm   (124 words)

  
 Portugale como ele deberia sere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bamos imaginare que Dom Afuonso Enriques decidia sere um filho esemplare i num batere na sua mainzinha.
Ao espaço originale do Coundado Portucalense juntar-se-ia a bela terra da Galiza i assinhe permaneceria pielos séclos fora o Reino de Portugale.
O primeiro reie i os seus sucessores num se teriam interessado pielo basto Sule - terras áridas, de maus ares i gentes d'estranhos ábitos i tradiçoins - concentraundo-se na regiom originale da língua galaico-portuguesa i estebelecendo capitale na cidade do Puorto.
www.geocities.com /mobimentopt/Portugale.html   (176 words)

  
 SLOVAK FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION - SFA
As a Galizan citizen opressed by the State of Spain I wish you the best luck in order to pass the eliminatory and play final series against portuguese-speaking (and so botherhood) countries like our Portugal, Brasil and Angola.
Some day Galiza will have the right of playing whit all other nations of Europe and Earth..
As a Galizan citizen opressed by the fascist State of Spain I wish you the best luck in order to pass the eliminatory and play final series against portuguese-speaking (and so botherhood) countries like our Portugal, Brasil and Angola.
www.slovak-football.sk /index.php?menu=msgb   (269 words)

  
 LENTURA
GALIZA é a historia dun microcosmos pechado onde todo xira en círculos concéntricos, empezando pola narración e terminando polos personaxes atrapados alí dentro.
Sentados entre a clientela atopamos a un sibarita dos puros, a un escéntrico saxofonista, a unha parella de anciáns e a unha mociña namorada dun rapaz despistado e medroso.
O personaxe do mozo saxofonista semella a conciencia que Galiza leva dentro e que non florece por riba da penumbra na que estamos mergullados.
www.arenteiro.com /naba/galiza.htm   (6545 words)

  
 Forum At-Tambur.com - Powered by XMB 1.9.1 Nexus
Forum At-Tambur.com » Musica de Raiz Tradicional » O Celtismo na Galiza e no norte de Portugal
Subject: O Celtismo na Galiza e no norte de Portugal
The study headed by Dr Bradley was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
attambur.com /forum/viewthread.php?tid=164&page=1#pid785   (641 words)

  
 Flickr: Photos tagged with galiza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 soc.culture.galiza Home Page
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The name Galiza hasn't been chosen to make a political statement.
In general, the names given to the newsgroups correspond to the English name of the geographical area.
www.redegalega.org /scg/scg_e.htm   (843 words)

  
 Ferrol Port (Galiza, Spain) photo - photokhan photos at pbase.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ferrol Port (Galiza, Spain) photo - photokhan photos at pbase.com
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Drop a line with an e-mail contact in the appropriate gallery and I'll be sure to contact you back.
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