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The Iberian Peninsula, where Galicia is located, has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, first by Neanderthals and then by modern humans. From about 4500 BC, it (like much of the north and west of the peninsula) was inhabited by a megalithic culture, which entered the Bronze Age about 1500 BC.
Athens is a city and the county seat of Henderson County, [6] Texas, in the United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 12,857. [ 7 ] The city has called itself the " Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World."
Galician and Castilian are the official languages of the Autonomous Community of Galicia. Galician migration to North America took place mainly between 1868 and 1930, [ 1 ] although there was a second smaller wave in the late 1940s and 1950s, when Galicians managed to form a small community in Newark .
The Galician diaspora is the ethnically Galician population outside of Galicia. The concept does not usually include the ethnic Galicians who live as natives in Spain or the adjacent country of Portugal. Massive emigration of the Galician people occurred during the last three decades of the 19th century until well into the mid-20th century.
Galicians (Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group [7] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people [8] and have their historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [9]
Stater coin, of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) from Trepcza/ n. Sanok. The region has a turbulent history. In Roman times the region was populated by various tribes of Celto-Germanic admixture, including Celtic-based tribes – like the Galice or "Gaulics" and Bolihinii or "Volhynians" – the Lugians and Cotini of Celtic, Vandals and Goths of Germanic origins (the Przeworsk and Púchov ...
In the vast task of modernizing the kingdom to best leverage its human and natural resources, Galician societies and academies played a prominent role, such as the Academy of Agriculture of the Kingdom of Galicia (inaugurated on January 20, 1765), The Economic Society of Friends of the Kingdom of Galicia (February 15, 1784), and the Societies ...
The respective data for Eastern Galicia show the following numbers: Ruthenians 64.5%, Poles 22.0%, Jews 12%. [28] [29] Of the 44 administrative divisions of Austrian eastern Galicia, Lviv (Polish: Lwów, German: Lemberg) was the only one in which Poles made up a majority of the population. [30]