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 | | During the 1936–75 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco — himself a Galician from Ferrol — Galicia's autonomy statute was annulled (in common with those of Catalonia and the Basque provinces). |
 | | The main cities are Vigo, A Coruña (sometimes referred to as Corunna in English), Pontevedra, Lugo, Ferrol, Ourense, and Santiago de Compostela, the region's capital and archiepiscopal seat, and home of the shrine which gave rise to medieval Europe's most famous pilgrimage route, The Way of St James. |
 | | Geographically, one of the most important features 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. |
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