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  Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galicia (Galician: Galicia or Galiza, Spanish: Galicia, Portuguese: Galiza) is an autonomous community with the status of Historical Nationality in the northwest of Spain.
Galicia has so many small rivers that it has been called the "land of the thousand rivers." The most important of the rivers are the Miño and the Sil, which has a spectacular canyon.
Galicia was allotted to Garcia II of Galicia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galicia_(Spain)   (1671 words)

  
 Galicia (Spain) - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Galiza or Galicia (Galego-Português: Galiza, Spanish: Galicia) is an autonomous community in the northwest of Spain.
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 These are called rías and are divided into the Rias Altas and the Rias Baixas.
Galicia suffered recently one of the worst ecological disasters in Europe due to the "Prestige" oil spill, where large areas of the coastline were completely covered by crude oil.
www.iridis.com /Galiza   (1133 words)

  
 Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Galicia (Galician: Galicia or Galiza, Spanish: Galicia, Portuguese: Galiza) is an autonomous community in the northwest of Spain.
The spoken languages are Galician (Galego) (the local language derived from Latin) and Spanish (castellano or español) (in common with the rest of Spain).
The name Galicia (Galiza) comes from Latin name Gallaecia, associated to the name of the ancient Celtic tribe that resided above the Douro river, the Gallaeci or Callaeci in Latin and in Greek (these tribes were mentioned by Herodotus).
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Galiza   (1573 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.
1286 Devastation of Galicia and Volyn by the Tatars (Telebuha).
Galicia was devasted by Khmelnytsky's Cossack Troops and Tatars.
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm   (3827 words)

  
 Spain blames Galician radicals for bomb - Boston.com - Europe - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Santiago is the capital of Galicia, a green and rugged fishing region which has its own regional government and language.
In 2003, a series of home-made bombs blamed on pro-independence radicals exploded outside offices of the then-ruling Popular Party in Galicia and an office of the Galician regional government.
Socialist Emilio Perez Tourino is due take over as regional leader on August 2.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/23/bomb_explodes_in_spain_no_injuries_report   (493 words)

  
 Socialist Party of Galicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Socialist Party of Galicia (Spanish and Galician: Partido Socialista de Galicia) is a social democratic political party in Galicia, Spain.
It is part of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Galicia   (87 words)

  
 The Militant - April 27, 2004 -- Madrid’s 70-year war on the Basque struggle
The incoming administration supports the ban that the outgoing Popular Party government imposed last year on the main Basque pro-independence party, Herri Batasuna, which had won 10 percent of the votes in the 2001 elections in the Basque country, in the north of Spain.
By the time the republican government, comprised of Socialist, Communist, and bourgeois parties, granted formal autonomy to Euskadi, it was already split in two by Franco’s fascist rebellion.
The social-democratic and Stalinist parties, compromising with their bourgeois allies, blocked the working-class upsurge from heading toward the overthrow of capitalist rule and the establishment of a workers and farmers government.
www.themilitant.com /2004/6816/681657.html   (1239 words)

  
 Euskal Herria Journal | A Basque Journal | News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He was head of the regional government in Castilla-León before being hand-picked by the patriarch Manuel Fraga Iribarne, to head the party, unsuccessfully running against the socialist premier Felipe González in general elections in 1993.
Even if the Popular Party has sought votes on a centrist agenda, the Socialists say that it is prone to manipulation by conservative ideological, financial and religious lobbies.
The Popular Party is essentially a coalition that ranges from the extreme right, including former Franco ministers like Fraga Iribarne, to the Christian Democratic right but also a new generation of young supporters who find the Socialists gray and corrupt.
members.freespeech.org /ehj/news/n_conpol_pp900.html   (1383 words)

  
 portland imc - 2002.02.03 - Socialist Party USA Response to the State of the Union Address
As an opposition party in the United States, the Socialist Party USA offers this response to the President's speech, and to the Democratic response.
The victims and their families are in the thoughts and prayers of Socialist Party USA members around America and the world.
While the Socialist Party USA calls for working-class solidarity across racial, sexual, religious and national divides, terrorists are satisfied to summarily judge and condemn -- and even murder -- based on national origin, sex or religion.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/02/7062.shtml   (2201 words)

  
 Antisemitism Worldwide 2002/3 - Hungary
During the May 2002 election campaign many Hungarian Socialist Party posters were defaced by slogans, such as “Israeli interests are behind the Socialists." A popular Sunday radio show on Hungarian state radio has become a major forum for airing nationalist and extremist views, as well as criticism of Jewish issues.
The nationalist, xenophobic and antisemitic Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIEP), which had hoped to become a decisive factor in the survival of the center-right coalition, did not pass the electoral threshold, and hence lost its parliamentary representation (see ASW 2001/2).
Csurka’s party, which until the 2002 elections, had representatives on the board of directors of the public broadcasting commission and the media, was active in “unmasking” the “socialist-liberal [read ‘Jewish’]” spirit in the media.
www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2002-3/hungary.htm   (1709 words)

  
 Minutes of Second Congress of the Communist International
He led the Party as a Stalinist until he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1940, from which he was released in 1945.
After the February Revolution in 1917, he was one of the socialists on the side of the Allied imperialism At the end of the war, he began to move leftwards, emerging as a centrist at the 1920 Party Congress.
Leading member of the Swiss Socialist Youth in 1914, he was expelled from the Socialist Party for his revolutionary politics, and formed the Forderung, a communist group.
www.marxists.org /history/international/comintern/2nd-congress/delegates.htm   (8811 words)

  
 Ukraine: Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 1918 a Bolshevik (Communist) government was established in Ukraine, and in 1922 the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) was one of the four founding republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Socialist realism mandated that all artists and writers glorify the Soviet regime and its goal of attaining communism.
Of the parties represented in the 1994 elections to the legislature, the Communist Party won the most seats, while the People's Movement of Ukraine, known as Rukh, won the second largest number of seats.
ukraine.uazone.net /article1.html   (8173 words)

  
 Fraga Holds Lead in Spain Regional Vote (phillyBurbs.com)
Galicia is one of Spain's 17 semiautonomous regions.
Failure to maintain the presidency in Galicia would be a serious blow for the Popular Party, which is still reeling from a surprise defeat to Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialists in national elections in March 2004 that ended their eight-year run in office.
The Galician elections are the last battle between the Popular Party and the Socialists before municipal elections in 2007.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/89-06192005-504681.html   (408 words)

  
 Franco-era politician could lose power in Galician election: 19.06.2005: www.amsterdam-hotels-apartments.com
With none of the main parties prepared to form a coalition with the PP, it could open the door to the Socialist Party, led in Galicia by Emilio Perez Tourino.
Galicia is one of the poorest of Spain's 17 regions and is highly dependent on EU structural aid.
For decades it was a major source of emigration to South America and the size of the postal vote, which traditionally goes to the PP, could be decisive.
www.amsterdam-hotels-apartments.com /article-78634-en.html   (251 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Hugo Lane on Zwischen Nationalismus und Internationalismus: die polnische und ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
While the increasing importance of nationality within the socialist movement is well known, the factors that resulted in the growth of such influence in both Western and Eastern Europe have tended to be seen as distinct until the publication of this study.
While, like other socialist parties representing nations without states, the Polish socialist parties including the GPSD/PPSD were not allowed to appear as a distinct delegation at party congresses, the legitimacy accorded the re-establishment of a Polish state by the Second International gave the Polish parties a subtle advantage.
Important as the climate created within socialist circles may have been, the increasing competition for votes may have also influenced Polish and Ukrainian socialist parties to move more closely to the bourgeois parties of their respective nations.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8585873755899   (2036 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Europe
June 20 (Bloomberg) -- Spain's Socialist Party claimed a narrow victory in elections in the northern region of Galicia, ousting conservative leader Manuel Fraga from power after almost two decades as head of the government.
Yesterday's regional vote was the second in which the Socialists have gained support since their surprise victory in a national election on March 14 last year.
Migration from the countryside in Galicia, the third-poorest region in Spain, has contributed to the Socialist Party's increased number of seats.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=a1pHUEOVFvxI   (707 words)

  
 Galicia (Spain) - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The name Galicia also can refer to a historical region in central Europe.
In the 5th century invasions, Galicia fell to the Suevi contrary to other large parts of the Iberian Peninsula, held by the Visigoths, in 411 CE, who formed there the Kingdom of Galicia.
PSdG-PSOE — Partido Socialista de Galicia (Socialist Party of Galicia-Spanish Socialist Workers' Party)
www.free-definition.com /Galiza.html   (1156 words)

  
 October 2001
Khaleda Zia is sworn in as prime minister on October 10 with her government, including herself as defense minister, A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury as foreign minister, Saifur Rahman as finance minister, and Altaf Hossain Chowdhury as home affairs minister.
Argentina: Elections to the Senate and to one-half of the Chamber of Deputies are held.
Germany: In state elections in Berlin, the Social Democratic Party wins 29.7% of the vote (44 of 141 seats), the Christian Democratic Union 23.7% (35), the Party of Democratic Socialism 22.6% (33), the Free Democratic Party 9.9% (15), and the Greens 9.1% (14).
rulers.org /2001-10.html   (734 words)

  
 Articles - Manuel Fraga Iribarne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The party was ignored in its first years, but after the 1982 crisis and breakup of the Democratic Centre Union, the moderate-conservative party which had won the first two democratic presidential elections, AP became the second party in Spain, and Fraga was considered Leader of the Opposition to the Socialist government.
Nevertheless, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party was enjoying great popularity and an absolute majority winning strike (in the 1982, 1986, and 1989 elections), as AP and its president were generally viewed as too reactionary to be an alternative.
Subsequently, in the autonomous elections of 2005, Fraga and the PPdeG lost their absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia, and a coalition government of PSdeG and BNG was formed with socialist Emilio Pérez Touriño as the new president.
www.beadscenter.com /articles/Manuel_Fraga_Iribarne   (643 words)

  
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Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html   (2433 words)

  
 Spain Parliament vote too close to call - Boston.com - Europe - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The sole surviving politician from Gen. Francisco Franco's regime was looking for a fifth straight majority for his party Sunday in a close vote that may hinge on the votes of expatriate Spaniards.
Failure to maintain the presidency in Galicia would be a serious blow for the Popular Party, which suffered a surprise defeat at the hand of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialists in national elections in March 2004 that ended their eight-year run in office.
Turnout was tallied at 46.7 percent in the Galician election Sunday, which is the last battle between the Popular Party and the Socialists before municipal elections in 2007.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/19/spain_area_voters_to_decide_on_fraga_rule?mode=PF   (501 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Poland
Jews developed many political parties and associations, ranging in ideologies from Zionist to socialist to anti-Zionist.
The Bund, a socialist party, spread throughout Poland in the early 20
Partial diplmatic relations were restored in 1986 — the first of the communistic block countries to take this step — full diplomatic relations were not restored until 1990, a year after Poland ended its communist rule.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Poland.html   (3614 words)

  
 portland imc - 2002.11.03 - Socialist Party of Oregon office, Grand Opening
Hopefully the socialists and the greens will cooperate.
The Pacific Green Party of Oregon has been working to eliminate the ballot access of the Socialist Party, which is causing both groups to lose resources.
Sadly, they rejected that route and seek, instead, to become "THE" third party in Oregon (meaning that they have really lost count of the number of political parties we have in this state), at the expense of trying to eliminate anyone they think is weaker or smaller.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/11/31298.shtml   (425 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Spain: Veteran Iribarne elected to fourth term
Despite his 79 years of age, Manuel Fraga Iribarne conducted a vigorous campaign for the Popular Party (Conservative), winning his fourth consecutive term as President of the Regional Autonomous Government (Xunta).
While promoting the culture of Galicia, where the language “Gallego”, as opposed to “Castellano” is spoken, Fraga Iribarne places the emphasis on regionalism, rather than nationalism, a feeling apparently backed up by the majority of Spaniards, proven yet again by this autonomous region’s election.
The Galician Nationalist Block were second and the Socialist Party came in third.
english.pravda.ru /main/2001/10/23/18831_.html   (197 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
Plans call for the two parties to work together on issues involved in doing scientific research on the species off the Nicaraguan coast, working on the joint technical harvesting and technological processing of fish, and also joint fishing in Nicaragua’s waters using Russian vessels.
Euro MP Daniel Varela Suanzes, from the People's Party (PP), and the Socialist representative Rosa Miguélez, both issued statements congratulating the European Parliament on this decision.
According to La Voz de Galicia, 13 of the 18 applications approved by the Galician Xunta claimed funding to set up an aquaculture farm to grow turbot in sea cages.
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=2023   (5691 words)

  
 Daszynski, Ignacy --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Polish socialist leader and patriot who was prominent in the restoration of the Polish Republic after World War I. In October 1892 Daszynski was one of the organizers of the Polish Social Democratic Party in Galicia.
Polish socialist leader and patriot who was prominent in the restoration of the Polish Republic after World War I. The rebirth of Poland
Pilsudski, distancing himself from socialist politics, became a military leader and commander of a brigade that fought on the Austrian side.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9029423   (612 words)

  
 Radical Labor Publications List
The work of the communist parties of France and Germany : and the tasks of the communists...
Constitution (fundamental law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: as amended and supplemented by the first, second, third, sixth, seventh and eighth sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
Constitution (fundamental law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as amended by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Feb. 25, 1947, on the recommendations of the Drafting Commission
www.bloomu.edu /library/pages/Archives/RadicalLabor/RLPO-S.htm   (926 words)

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