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Topic: New Galicia


  
  History of Galicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Due to the fact that Galicia was also very humid since it was near the Atlantic, the towns of the Castilian plateau moved to the territory, thus increasing the population.
Galicia was allotted to Garcia II of Galicia.
As the senior partner in the new coalition, the PSdeG nominated its leader, Emilio Perez Touriño, to serve as Galicia's new president.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Galicia   (2729 words)

  
 Galicia (autonomous community) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galicia (also Galiza in Galician) is a nation organized as an autonomous community in the northwest of Spain.
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.
Geographically, an important feature of Galicia is the presence of many fjord-like indentations on the coast, estuaries that were drowned with rising sea levels after the ice age.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galicia_(Spain)   (2180 words)

  
 Descendents of Don Juan Perez de Onate
Her father was the Lieutenant Governor of all of New Spain and factor of the royal treasuary in Mexico.
In the book's, Origins of New Mexico Families by Fray Angelico Chavez, and The Last Conquistador by Marc Simmons, it is stated that he is the yougest of the brothers.
In the book, Origins of New Mexico Families by Fray Angelico Chavez, she is mentioned as a daughter and grandaughter of the leading Conquistadores of New Spain.
www.somosprimos.com /inclan/onate.htm   (4687 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
He went to Mexico before 1538, and is said to have been a favourite of the viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza, who appointed him Governor of New Galicia in 1538.
The friar coming back with the news that sedentary Indians had been met beyond what are now the limits of Mexico, an expedition was determined upon and Coronado was made commander.
New Mexico and Arizona (which he explored as far as the Colorado River) disappointed the expectations of the Spaniards.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04379e.htm   (775 words)

  
 Halychyna! Galicia! Gacsorszag! Galizien! Galicja! - Homeland Page with its history, maps and links!
ncient Galicia was populated by the Slavic tribes of Dulibes(Duliby/Duleby) and White Croatians (White Croats / Bili Khorvaty), Ulyches (Ulychi), Tyverians (Tivertsi/Tivertsy), Buzhanians with Derevlians (Derevlyany) and Vohlynians (Volyniany) on the north.
The political situation during his rule in Galicia was very unstable and Hungarians and Poles concluded Hungarian-Polish treaty regarding the government of Galicia in town of Spish.
Galicia was devasted by Khmelnytsky's Cossack Troops and Tatars.
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm   (3810 words)

  
 Jalisco, Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Kingdom of New Galicia, founded about 1532, was a constituent territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain gaining broad domestic autonomy in 1574, excepting a short period from 1588 to 1591; the Viceroy's authority just might intervene in military and fiscal matters.
Note that New Galicia was not a Viceroyaly, it was named "Kingdom of New Galicia", though it was not governed by a King but by a "governor" who was at the same time president of the Royal Audence of Guadalajara.
This is the flag of the former Viceroyalty of Nueva (New) Galicia (present-day Jalisco).
flagspot.net /flags/mx-jal.html   (1526 words)

  
 ITINERARY OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITIONS, 1527-1547
APRIL 18 The appointment of Coronado as governor of New Galicia is confirmed.
SEPT 28 The Indians in New Galicia attack the town of Guadalajara, but are repulsed.
Mendoza, before he leaves New Spain to become viceroy of Peru, answers the charges preferred against him by the officials appointed to investigate his administration.
southwest.library.arizona.edu /jour/front.1_div.4.html   (1263 words)

  
 German Genealogy: Galicia/Galizien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Galicia [E] or Galizien [D] was formerly a crown land of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
In the course of the later Napoleonic wars, Zamosz was to be detached from Austria as a new duchy centered at Cracow was established.
In the years to come, thousands of families emigrated into Galicia, mostly out of the Palatinate (Pfalz) and settled in newly-founded German communities or in the cities as craftsmen and artisans.
www.genealogienetz.de /gene/reg/ESE/galicia.html   (1022 words)

  
 New Galicia - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. Announces It Has Become the Owner of 92.8% of Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A. As a result of the Exchange Offer.
Manuel Fraga: "quiero una Galicia grande en una España grande": siempre ha estado en la brecha de la vida pública.
Progress with the pilgrims to this green and pleasant land; For centuries, Galicia has been the focal point for the faithful walking the Camino de Santiago.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-n1ewg1alic.html   (333 words)

  
 Galicia en Nova York - Galicia en Nueva York - Galicia in New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Estrella de Galicia: $5, Tapas: tortilla $9, empanadillas de atun $8.50, jamón y manchego $11.50, almejas $9.
(ambiente yanqui, música caribeña, ración de chourizo $10, ración de queixo tetilla $8, cerveza Estrella de Galicia $5, as sardiñas asadas $10 estan aceptables e a ración é abondosa).
Estrella de Galicia $5, Vaso de sangría $5, Tapas: Tortilla $6, Gambas al ajillo $9, Polbo a feira $9, Sardiñas $8, Patacas bravas $6, Paella $16.
www.eden.rutgers.edu /~mosteiro   (553 words)

  
 Naval Technology - Galicia Class Landing Platform Dock (LPD)
The Galicia and the Castilla can be deployed in logistic support roles in both military and civil operations, e.g.
The Galicia class is equipped with two 12-barrel 20mm Meroka close-in weapons systems fitted one to port and one to starboard at midship on the raised deck overlooking the helicopter deck.
The Galicia and the Castilla can be deployed in logistic support roles in military operations and in civil operations, for example for humanitarian aid, disaster relief.
www.naval-technology.com /projects/galicia   (818 words)

  
 Welcome Mexico Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
He had come to New Spain after the Conquest, appointed to be Governor of Panuco, a State in N.E. Mexico.
He had named it New Galicia in honor of the province in Spain where he had been born.
Help came and the uprising was crushed but now control of New Galicia reverted to the Colonial Government of New Spain.
www.mexicotravel.net /demo2/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&article_id=14   (866 words)

  
 Galicia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
The Austrians invented a name Galicia for these new areas (in 1815, northern regions of it were ceded to Russia and became part of the Kingdom of Poland dependent on Russia).
Most of the Poles living east of the new border re-settled to Poland, whereas the Ukrainian-speaking population of the territories which remained Polish were either expelled to Ukraine or dispersed to other parts of Poland.
The regions of Spis and Orava, adjacent to Galicia are marked in yellow and the red line shows their division between Poland and Slovakia in 1920.
www.polishroots.org /genpoland/gal.htm   (377 words)

  
 Alibris: Galicia
The province of Galicia was the easternmost land of the old Habsburg Empire.
Peter Eisenman's competition-winning project for the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is a formidable battery of museums, libraries, and auditoriums, a cultural acropolis atop a spectacular hillside site in northeastern Spain.
Retells five traditional tales from Galicia, a region that is partly in Poland and partly in Ukraine.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Galicia   (728 words)

  
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Nuno de Guzman and the Province of Panuco in New Spain 1518-1533, by Donald E.
In 1542, she was about four or five years old when her father entered Nueva Galicia as the new Governor.
ORDOVA-Y- was born 1602 in Guadalajara, New Spain, and died 05 Sep 1646.
www.somosprimos.com /inclan/estrada.htm   (1675 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Galicia, Poland and West Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Podolia PODOLIA [Podolia], region, SW Ukraine, separated in the south from Moldova by the Dniester and in the west from W Galicia by the Southern Buh.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Galicia, Poland and West Ukraine" at HighBeam.
Literary images of Galicia in 1846: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the Polish nation.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/04864.html   (410 words)

  
 The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI
The boundary of his new Galicia was severely drawn although the Bierzo and even the lands around Zamora had long been recipients of immigration from Galicia.
The sons upon whom the three new kingdoms were to devolve had all attained maturity, as that was gauged in the eleventh century.
In the valleys of the Duero and the Miño, he had already asserted the claims of his wife Sancha to the properties of the old comital house for she was a granddaughter of Menendo González.
libro.uca.edu /alfonso6/alfonso2.htm   (8827 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
Coronado's appointments as governor of New Galicia, and as leader of the expedition are also given as well as the instructions issued to Fray Marcos of Niza and the latter's report of his journey made in the spring and summer of 1539.
Border relations of Spanish New Mexico and the nomadic Southern Plains Indian tribes were much like those of Anglo-American New Mexico in that there were raids and counter raids, temporary treaties, broken promises, renewed wars, and other periods of truce.
The whole represents the clashing of hostile cultures, one of which was primitive and nurtured by a desert-like region and the other was mature, having been cradled in a foreign land.
digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v019/v019p407.html   (5880 words)

  
 Stetl: A.Lichtblau & M.John - Lemberg and Czernowitz
Calculating a Disparity Index (Difference/ 2) on the basis of social-statistical difference, the value for Galicia comes to 26.7; this means that 26.7% of the Jewish or non-Jewish population would have had to change professions in order to display the same distribution percentages as the other group.
The School Board of the Province of Galicia then approved the construction of two additional elementary schools but rejected the demand of the Brody municipal authorities that the language of instruction in both of them be German.
Brody argued its case as follows: "Four fifths of the population profess the Mosaic Confession; at the same time, because they employ the German language as their mother tongue, they consider themselves to be members of the German nationality." They regarded the decision of the provincial school board as a violation of their national rights.
www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/Tshernovits/Lichtblau/CAPETOWN-12.html   (1749 words)

  
 News
The Escasany, Ayerza and Braun families created the Galicia holding last year to pursue non-traditional banking businesses such as Internet, insurance, assets management and pension fund administration.
The families were prevented from entering into these segments by way of their bank, Banco Galicia, due to Central Bank rules preventing banks from owning more than 12% of non-banking companies.
Escasany, Ayerza and Braun own 49.3% of Grupo Galicia, which in turn owns 93.3% of its main asset Banco Galicia, one of Argentina"s three largest private banks in terms of loans and deposits.
www.chilnet.cl /news/brief.asp?Cod_noticia=0000007787   (208 words)

  
 Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
Galicia is a country situated on the North-west coast of the Iberian Peninsula, on one of the several "Fines terrae" of Europe.
The political union of Galicia with Leon and Castile and, later on with Spain, made it easier the development of Galician peculiarities which were already present in the medieval period, and the progressive distance from Portuguese.
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.ogmios.org /26.htm   (2336 words)

  
 PBS - THE WEST - The Journey of Coronado Part One
IN THE year 1530, Nuno de Guzman, who was President of New Spain, had in his possession an Indian, a native of the valley or valleys of Oxitipar, who was called Tejo by the Spaniards.
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, governor of New Galicia, was captain-general, because he had been the author of it all.
But they were unfortunate in having a captain who left in New Spain estates and a pretty wife, a noble and excellent lady, which were not the least cause for what was to happen.
www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/corona2.htm   (1679 words)

  
 A Special Advertising Section on Spain
From his time as a minister under Franco to his founding of the Partido Popular (PP), Spain's ruling party, and on to his decade as President of Galicia, he has battled to give Spain, and now Galicia, government that is both progressive and sensitive to regional identity.
A lawyer, professor and ambassador to the U.S. who helped write Spain's new constitution in 1976, he believes that Galicia's individuality is its strength.
This year's Xacobeo - an ancient pilgrimage ending in Galicia's main city, Santiago de Compostela - will be a chance for the region to display its achievements and its readiness for the new millennium.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /archives/99/spain/24.html   (722 words)

  
 Migrant Education Region IX - California - San Diego and Orange County - Las Lenguas de Jalisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Jalisco made up almost one-half of the Spanish colony of Nueva Galicia (New Galicia) and was an important cultural and economic force in the evolution of Mexico from a Spanish colony to a new nation.
Domingo Lázaro de Arregui, in his "Descripción de la Nueva Galicia" - published in 1621 - wrote that 72 languages were spoken in the Spanish colonial province of Nueva Galicia.
Another reason is that the history of Jalisco from the time of independence to the present has been a dynamic force in the story of the nation of Mexico.
www.migrantweb.org /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=54   (1466 words)

  
 News
In December last year Grupo Galicia bought a 37.5% stake in insurance company Sudamericana, whose other shareholders are US-based Hartford Life International Corp. and Bermuda-based Hartford Life Limited (50%) and Banco Galicia (12.5%).
Grupo Galicia and Hartford Life Ltda have a good relationship, and Galicia does not plan to increase its stake in Sudamericana Holding, Scarinci said.
ABN AMRO Securities Argentina banking analyst Claudio Maulhardt believes Grupo Galicia will use the same partner strategy if the group decides to invest in non-traditional banking segments this year.
www.chilnet.cl /news/brief.asp?Cod_noticia=0000007787&lang=esp   (208 words)

  
 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (DesertUSA)
As a young man at court he became friendly with Antonio de Mendoza, and when Mendoza was appointed viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) in 1535, Coronado accompanied him to America as his assistant.
In 1538 Mendoza appointed Coronado governor of New Galicia, a province in western Mexico.
Coronado continued his governorship of New Galicia until he was indicted again, and in 1544, found guilty of corruption, negligence and atrocities against Indians under his authority.
www.desertusa.com /mag98/sep/papr/coronado.html   (722 words)

  
 Sailing News of The Regatta Sailing Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
USA - Two classes of classic yachts celebrated the end of their New York Yacht Club Race Week experience in Newport today, even though the Rolex-sponsored event is a nine-day competition.
Hobart, Australia - A yacht owner’s worst nightmare is when his old boat looks like knocking off his new boat in a race; Sydney yachtsman Geoff Ross is this morning facing that prospect in the IMS division of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
Tooheys New will be erecting a huge marquee (complete with bar facilities) at the marina and the Wolverines will be playing each afternoon.
www.sailing1st.com /news.asp?classID=67&eventid=0   (2058 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
He entered the Spanish army in 1746 as a cadet in the infantry regiment of Galicia, where he achieved the rank of second lieutenant.
The expedition's general map of the areas visited on the northern frontier of New Spain is regarded as a composite drawing, for it includes details that could not have been acquired through direct observation.
During consideration of the proposed New Regulations, he was summoned as an expert witness and testified before a junta.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/LL/fla86.html   (647 words)

  
 SAXICOLOUS LICHENS AND LICHENICOLOUS FUNGI FROM THE COAST ON GALICIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
We studied also the Cíes Islands, the Isle of Ons and the Isle of Sálvora, that are the biggest islands of Galicia, all of them in front of the S coast.
- 2 taxa are new to Europe: Bactrospora carneopallida and Opegrapha circumducta.
- 11 taxa are new to Spain: Aspicilia caesiocinerea var.
www.usc.es /~spubl/4pazi.htm   (234 words)

  
 Galicia Europe
Galicia is generally the eastern half of the former Austrian province of Galicia (Galizien).
During the Austrian period (1772-1918) it was known as East Galicia (Ost-Galizien, Skhidna Halychyna and Galicja Wschodnia).
The only connection may be that the decendants of Spanish Galicia renamed their new homeland in the Austria-region after they migrated out of Spain.
emol.org /zucker/genealogy/galiciaeurope.html   (836 words)

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