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The Galician Wikipedia (Galician: Wikipedia en lingua galega ), also popularly known as Galipedia (Galician: Galipedia ), [ 1] is the Galician-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia . Launched on 8 March 2003, [ 2] it has 212,816 articles, making it the fifty-third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number ...
Galicians. 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]
Galician (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə n / gə-LISH-(ee-)ən, [4] UK also / ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ s i ə n / gə-LISS-ee-ən), [5] also known as Galego (endonym: galego), is a Western Ibero-Romance language. . Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Sp
First celebrated 1978–1987 and revived in 1995, the festival is based in Celtic culture, folk music, and the encounter of different peoples throughout Spain and the world. Attended by over 100,000 people, it is considered a Festival of National Tourist Interest. Festa da Dorna, 24 July, in Ribeira.
Eastern Galicia was the most diverse part of the region, and one of the most diverse areas in Europe at the time. The Galician Jews immigrated in the Middle Ages from Germany. German-speaking people were more commonly referred to by the region of Germany where they originated (such as Saxony or Swabia).
Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language. Galician alphabet. Bible translations into Galician. Galician Language Association. Galician literature. Galician–Asturian. Galician–Portuguese. Gheada.
Galician mythology, rooted in the ancient culture of Galicia, is a blend of Celtic, Roman, and Iberian influences enriched by centuries of oral tradition. Galicia 's myhts and legends reflect a mystical view of the world, closely tied to its rugged landscapes, mist-covered mountains, dense forests, and the Atlantic coastline, which together ...
In 1992 the same seminar estimated this datum to be 60.3%. In the cities the results are worse; it is estimated that only 1.6% of those from Ferrol and 4.3% of those from Vigo have Galician as their initial language, while in Coruña it is 6.3%, in Ourense 9.1%, in Pontevedra 9.4%, in Lugo 17.9% and in Santiago 18.4%.