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.

The relics were said to have been later rediscovered in the 9th century by a hermit named Pelagius, who after observing strange lights in a local forest went for help after the local bishop, Theodemar of Iria, in the west of Galicia.

When the Austrian monarchy made Galicia a province in 1772, Habsburg officials realized that the local East Slavic people were distinct from both Poles and Russians, and still called themselves Ruthenians, until the empire fell apart in 1918.

Poland reluctantly granted local autonomy to the Ukrainian population of Galicia, many of whom were embittered by their incorporation into a Polish state.

The result was that the local OUN-B commanders in Volhynia and Galicia ( if not the OUN-B leadership itself ) decided that an ethnic cleansing of Poles from the area, through terror and murder, was necessary.

The town gave its name to the historic province and kingdom of Kingdom of Galicia – Volhynia, of which it was the capital until the early 14th century, when the seat of the local princes was moved to Lviv.

The Polish government carried out an active policy of Polonization in these territories ( see Osadnik ), and as a result in southeastern part of Kresy, conflicts with local Ukrainians were frequent ( see Pacification of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia ( 1930 )).

Galicia was subject to the Austrian part of the Dual Monarchy, but the Galician Sejm and provincial administration had extensive privileges and prerogatives, especially in education, culture, and local affairs.

The local Ukrainian population briefly declared the independence of Eastern Galicia as the " West Ukrainian People's Republic ".

In places like Galicia and Catalonia, the marriage contracts and inheritance are still governed by local laws.

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.

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries the local Ukrainians attempted to persuade the Austrians to divide Galicia into Western ( Polish ) and Eastern ( Ukrainian ) provinces.

These efforts were resisted and thwarted by those local Poles who feared losing control of Lviv and East Galicia.

Prior to 1914 he moved with his family to Lwów in Galicia, where he joined the local university.

The caciques, local powerful men, were used to manipulate election results and because of this, resentment to the system slowly built up over time, and important nationalist movements in Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country, as well as unions, started to form.

** Vikings raid Galicia and kill the bishop of Santiago de Compostela in battle, but his successor St. Rudesind rallies the local forces and kills the Viking King Gundered.

Nevertheless, a change in political fortunes for the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ushered in a local revival of sorts due to newly established Legislative Assembly or Sejm, and the successful renovation of the Cloth Hall was one of the proudest achievements of this period.

In 575 he marched into Galicia, defeating a local warlord named Aspidius and taking him, his treasure and his family into captivity.

* 1918 – A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.

Santiago's economy, although still heavily dependent in public administration ( headquarters of the autonomous government of Galicia ), cultural tourism and industry, an in its university, is becoming diversified in various sectors, most notably timber transformation ( FINSA ), automotive industry ( UROVESA ), and telecommunications and electronics ( Blusens and Televés ).

** A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia ( Central Europe ).

Although not a decisive defeat in itself, the hopeless confusion of the tattered and weary Spanish army ( having neither a government nor a military command structure to coordinate it ) meant that Espinosa marked the deathblow to Blake's Army of Galicia.

Since 1911, the Portuguese monarchists-in-exile concentrated in Galicia, Spain in order to enter Portugal and restore the monarchy but without the tacit approval of the Spanish government and led by the charismatic Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro ( a veteran of the African colonial campaigns ).

The second incursion, in 1912, although better prepared did not succeed, due to the Spanish government, which was forced to cede to Republican diplomats the illegality of monarchist encampments in Galicia and disarmed the remaining combatants within its territory.

Provisional governments in Venice and Milan quickly expressed desire to be part of a united Italian state, a new Hungarian government in Pest announced its intentions to break away from the Empire and elect Ferdinand its King, and a Polish National Committee announced the same for the province of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

Subsequently, in the autonomous elections of 2005, Fraga and the PPdeG lost their absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia, and despite obtaining elections with a 45 % plurality, a left government coalition between the Socialist Party of Galicia ( PSdeG ) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc was formed with socialist Emilio Pérez Touriño as the new president.

In the 19th century, the Kingdom of León declared war, together with Galicia and Asturias, against France, and organised the Junta General del Reino de León as its own government.

In April 1920, as head of the Ukrainian People's Republic, he signed an alliance in Warsaw with the Polish government, agreeing to a border on the River Zbruch and recognizing Poland's right to Galicia in exchange for military aid in overthrowing the Bolshevik regime.

From 2005 to 2009, BNG was one of the two partners in the Galician government, where Anxo Quintana was the vice-president of Galicia.

Anxo Quintana became then the vice-president of Galicia and BNG could directly appoint a number of conselleiros ( ministers ) for some departments of the government.

King Alfonso, however, after becoming aware of this covenant, appointed Henry governor of all the land between the Minho River and Santarem, governed until then by Raymond, thereby limiting his son-in-law's government to Galicia.

Once the initial outburst of national unity feelings died down in mid-1915 as Russian retreat from Galicia showed the government's incompetence, the Kadets, together with the Progressive faction, the Octobrist faction and a part of the Nationalist faction in the Duma, formed the Progressive Bloc in August 1915, which was critical of the government's prosecution of the war and demanded a government of " popular confidence ".

Well-versed in the culture of the Austrian parliamentary system and an orderly approach to government, they looked upon the socialist revolutionary attitude of their Kiev-based peers with some dismay and with the concern that the social unrest in the East should not spread to Galicia.

" The government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic then disbanded, while the Polish government reneged on its promise of autonomy for eastern Galicia.

By 1863, open revolt broke out in Russian Poland and from 1864 to 1865 the Austrian government declared a State of Siege in Galicia, temporarily suspending civil liberties.

During the Polish-Soviet War the Soviets tried to establish the puppet-state of the Galician SSR in East Galicia, the government of which after couple of months was liquidated.

The newly founded progressive government promoted Riego to field marshal and made him Captain General of Galicia.

At the same time, the government of the new Polish state, with pressure from the Allies agreed to grant political autonomy to Galicia, but not Volhynia.

" The government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic then disbanded, while Poland reneged on its promise of autonomy for Eastern Galicia.

During this same 10th century and in the first years of the 11th century Viking riders tried to assault it — Galicia is known in the Nordic sagas as Jackobsland or Gallizaland — and bishop Sisenand II, who was killed in battle against them in 968, ordered the construction of a walled fortress to protect the sacred place.

Returning to Galicia in late 1935, Wiesenthal claimed he was finally allowed to enter Lviv Polytechnic and tried to earn the advanced degree that would allow him to practice architecture in Poland.