There, the bones of St. James the Great were proclaimed to have been found in Compostela ( from Latin campus stellae, literally " the star field ") inside Galicia.

During his reign, the holy bones of St. James the Great were declared to be found in Galicia, at Santiago de Compostela ( from Latin campus stellae, literally " the field of the star ").

Red Ruthenia ( Latin: Ruthenia Rubra or Russia Rubra,, Polish: Ruś Czerwona, Ruś Halicka, ) is a historic term used since medieval times to refer to the area known today rather as Eastern Galicia or Western Ukraine ; first mentioned in Polish historic chronicles in the 1321, as Ruthenia Rubra or Ruthenian Voivodeship ( 1366-1772 ).

No doubt, that Latin designation Galicia et Lodomeria was used for this land before the period when it had been occupied by Andrew II for seven years.

The mediaeval Latin name of the town became the namesake of the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, of which the town itself was not a part.

The name was always used together with Galicia ( see article for details ), the Latin name for Galich.

The origin of the name Cale ( or Gale, since in Classical Latin there was not always a clear distinction between the letters " g " and " c ") is likely Celtic, from the root " Gall -" with which Celts referred to themselves, similarly to Galicia, Gaul or Galway.

In Galicia, the Polish-dominated local government tried to introduce a Latin alphabet for Ukrainian, which backfired by prompting a heated " War of the Alphabets ", bringing the issue of orthography into the public eye.

The Latin name of the Swiss Confederacy, Confoederatio Helvetica, harks back to the Helvetii, the name of Galicia to the Gallaeci and the Auvergne of France to the Averni.

Ares Lusitani ( Latin for the Lusitanian Ares ) was the God of horses and knights in Lusitanian mythology, in the cultural area of Gallaecia and Lusitania ( in the territory of modern Galicia ( Spain ) and Portugal ).

In the north-western part of the Peninsula ( today's Northern Portugal and Galicia ), Vulgar Latin began gaining a growing number of local characteristics, leading to the formation of what linguists today call Galician-Portuguese.

The British Celts of Galicia accepted the Latin rite and stringent measures were adopted against baptized Jews who had relapsed into their former faith.

Recceswinth ( Gothic: Raikaswinþs ), or Reccesuinth, Recceswint, Reccaswinth, Recesvinto ( Spanish, Galician and Portuguese ), Recceswinthus, Reccesvinthus, Recesvindus ( Latin ); was the Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia in 649 – 672: jointly with his father Chindaswinth from 649 and as sole king from 653.

* Finisterra ( Latin for Land's End ), a peninsula in Galicia, Spain

However, since the 70 ´ s the Canarian emigration has decreased and since the early 80s, with the improvement of the Islands ' economy ( and Spain's in general ), the Canarian emigration has fallen greatly ( leaving behind the Canarian emigration to Latin America, which in the twentieth century ( from the 1900s until 1970 ) became to the archipelago in the second most important Autonomous Community of Spain in the number of immigrants in that place after Galicia, being reduced from the 70 to the third Spanish region in number of immigrant in Latin America after Madrid and Galicia, with the combination of Canarian emigration to Europe and Latin America and from the 80's, with the reduction of Canarian emigration ), but with the worsening of the Venezuelan economy, many Venezuelan that are children and grandchildren of Canarian immigrants, so as many of the own Canaries who lived in Venezuela, have returned to the Canary Islands ( although many of them returned to Venezuela since, at least, January 2011, due to economic crisis and economic problems that start has to be in Spain ).

In Galicia, the word may refer to a wooden fife-like instrument held sideways.

Saudade is also associated with Galicia, where it is used similarly to the word morriña ( longingness ).

Toponyms related to the word nemeton occur as far west as Galicia, Spain, as far north as Scotland, and as far east as central Turkey.

This same word was commonly used as personal name in Galicia, during the Early Middle Ages, in the form Tructino ( origin of modern Galician surname Troitiño ) together with other related names such as Tructemiro, Tructesindo, Tructesenda f. or Tructu, of probable Suevi origin.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

Some speculate that the dish may have been invented in Spain, the first European country in which the potato appeared via the New World colonies, and assumes the first appearance to have been as an accompaniment to fish dishes in Galicia, from which it spread to the rest of the country and further to the Spanish Netherlands, which became Belgium more than a century later.

At the same time, Catalan and Galician became the standard languages in their respective territories, developing important literary traditions and being the normal languages in which public and private documents were issued: Galician from the 13th to the 16th century in Galicia and nearby regions of Asturias and Leon, and Catalan from the 12th to the 18th century in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, where it was known as Valencian.

From this same 10th century on, Compostela became a politically relevant site and several kings of Galicia and of León were acclaimed by the Galician noblemen, and crowned and anointed by the local bishop at the cathedral, among them Ordoño IV in 958, Bermudo II in 982, and Alfonso VII in 1111, so Compostela becoming capital of the Kingdom of Galicia.

At this time, Galicia was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but in 1918, it became part of the Second Polish Republic, and the city took its Polish name, Lwów.

Zakopane became a center for the region's mining and metallurgy industries ; in the 19th century, it was the largest center for metallurgy in Galicia.

Alfonso VII ( 1 March 1105 – 21 August 1157 ), born Alfonso Raimúndez, called the Emperor ( el Emperador ), became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126.

The southern territories of ancient Rus, including principalities of Galicia – Volhynia, Kiev and others, in the 14th century became a part of Lithuania, which, in 15th century, united with Catholic Poland to form Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

From then on the official German name Groß Salz became part of Galicia.

The mine became the largest in concentration of miners in Galicia.

In 1716 Baal Shem Tov became married, but soon his wife died and he went on traveling throughout the Eastern Galicia.

These traditions were the basis for the pilgrimage route that began to be established in the 9th century, and the shrine dedicated to James at Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia in Spain, became the most famous pilgrimage site in the Christian world.

In eastern Spain, Jacobus became " Jacome " or " Jaime "; in Catalunya, it became Jaume, in western Iberia it became " Iago ", from Hebrew י ַ ע ֲ ק ֹ ב, which when prefixed with " Sant " became " Santiago " in Portugal and Galicia ; " Tiago " is also spelled " Diego ", which is also the Spanish name of Saint Didacus of Alcalá.

Bukovina was a closed military district ( 1775 – 1786 ), then the largest district, Kreis Czernowitz ( after its capital Czernowitz ) of the Austrian constituent Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ( 1787 – 1849 ), and, finally, on 4 March 1849, became a separate Austrian Kronland ' crown land ' under a Landespräsident ( not a Statthalter, as in other crown lands ) and declared Herzogtum Bukowina ( nominal duchy, as part of the official full style of the Austrian Emperors ).

" These lowlands later became a part of the Rus ' principalities of Volhynia, Kiev, and Galicia, with the capital at Bakota at one time.

Within the Austrian Empire, western Podolia was part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria which, in 1867 with the formation of Austria-Hungary, became an ethnic Pole-administered autonomous unit under the Austrian crown.

* East Galicia, which was incorporated into the General-Government and became its fifth district.

* District Galicia, East Galicia, which was incorporated into the General Government and became its fifth district.

The name of the community was changed to Ponte Vedra, apparently after the city of Pontevedra, Galicia, ( Spain ).

Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol, Galicia, 31 January 1820 – 4 February 1893 ) was a Spanish feminist writer and activist.

The result was a large-scale immigration from poorer regions of Spain ( particularly Andalusia, Murcia and Galicia ), which in turn led to rapid urbanisation.

It comes from a Brythonic language community ( see image ) that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica ( present-day Brittany ) and which had even established a toehold in Galicia ( in present-day Spain ).

Yet in nations or regions where traditional folk music is a badge of cultural or national identity, the loss of traditional music can be slowed ; this is held to be true, for instance in the case of Bangladesh, Hungary, India, Ireland, Scotland, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, Brittany, and Galicia, Greece and Crete all of which retain their traditional music to some degree, in some such areas the decline of traditional music and loss of traditions has been reversed.

Some of the acquired gains were however rolled back, which coupled with intensified Germanization in the Prussian partition, left the Austrian Galicia as the most amenable to patriotic action territory.

After the outbreak of World War I, which confronted the partitioning powers against each other, Piłsudski's paramilitary units stationed in Galicia were turned into the Polish Legions, and as a part of the Austro-Hungarian Army fought on the Russian front.

In 1914, at the start of World War I, Kornilov was appointed commander of the 48th Infantry Division, which saw combat in Galicia and the Carpathians.

It is likely that the writers borrowed from the Spanish term tumbas de corredor, which is used for tombs in Cantabria, Galicia and the Basque Country.

There he was beheaded, but his disciples managed to get his body to Jaffa, where they found a marvelous stone ship which miraculously conduced them and the apostle's body to Iria Flavia, back in Galicia.

Slate-producing regions in Europe include Wales ( see slate industry in Wales ), Cornwall ( famously the village of Delabole ), Cumbria ( see Burlington Slate Quarries, Honister Slate Mine and Skiddaw Slate ) in the United Kingdom ; parts of France ( Anjou, Loire Valley, Ardennes, Brittany, Savoie ); Belgium ( Ardennes ); Liguria in northern Italy, especially between the town of Lavagna ( which means chalkboard in Italian ) and Fontanabuona valley ; Portugal especially around Valongo in the north of the country ; Spain see Slate Industry in Spain ; Germany's ( Moselle River-region, Hunsrück, Eifel, Westerwald, Thuringia and north Bavaria ); Alta, Norway ( actually schist not a true slate ) and Galicia.

Castilian identity is thus excluded from the historical nationalities of Spain such as Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country, but also other autonomous communities of Spain which due to historical reasons have their own strong identities, such as Andalusia, Asturias, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and the Valencian Community.

A period of leniency after 1905 was followed by another strict ban in 1914, which also affected Russian-occupied Galicia.

Some historians think that Asterio held a religious office which combined elements of the pagan and Christian religions, while others think he may be linked to the Brythonic refugees that settled in Britonia ( Galicia ) in the 6th century: The Parrochiale Suevorum ( an administrative document of the Suebi Kingdom ) tells that the lands of Asturias belonged to the Britonian see, and it is a fact that some features of the Celtic Christianity penetrated in Northern Spain, like the Celtic tonsure which was condemned by the Visigoth bishops who assisted to the Fourth Council of Toledo.

In Galicia, it is said that at the bottom of the Antela lake there are remnants of the ancient population of Antiochia, which was eradicated from the face of earth by a night deluge, in punishment for the sins of its inhabitants.

Besides Andalusia, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia, which identified themselves as nationalities, other communities have also taken that denomination in accordance to their historical regional identity, such as the Valencian Community, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and Aragon.

As an arranger and composer his credits include, The Seville Suite which was inspired by the exploits of Aodh Rua Ó Dónaill from The Battle of Kinsale in 1601 until his arrival in Galicia to the welcome of The Spanish Earl of Caraçena.

Some time between 11th and 13th century, the town was annexed by the Ruthenians, and Polish princes of the Piast dynasty confirmed it in 1264, when in Tarnów, there was a meeting of Prince Bolesław V the Chaste, and Prince Daniel of Galicia, during which both sides agreed that the border would go between Rzeszów and Czudec ( Rzeszów belonged to Red Ruthenia, while Czudec and Strzyżów to Lesser Poland ).

Fletcher, Richard A., " St. James ' Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmirez ", Chapter 1 and passim: Galicia, online at http :// libro. uca. edu / sjc / sjc. htm which offers a historical and geographical background to the building of the cathedral in Compostela, and

Martial school of organum, the music of which was often characterized by a swiftly moving part over a single sustained line ; the Notre Dame school of polyphony, which included the composers Léonin and Pérotin, and which produced the first music for more than two parts around 1200 ; the musical melting-pot of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, a pilgrimage destination and site where musicians from many traditions came together in the late Middle Ages, the music of whom survives in the Codex Calixtinus ; and the English school, the music of which survives in the Worcester Fragments and the Old Hall Manuscript.