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| | Galicia_(Spain) - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Note: The population of the City of A Coruńa in 1900 was 43,971 meanwhile the population of the rest of the province including the City and Naval Station of nearby Ferrol as well as Santiago de Compostela was 653,556. |
 | | The main cities are Vigo, A Coruńa, 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, 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. |
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