Kingdom of Galicia

The Suebic kingdom of Galicia lasted from 410 to 584 and seems to have enjoyed relatively stable government for most of that time. Historians like José António Lopes Silva, the translator of Idatius' chronicles, the primary written source for the period, find that the essential temper of Galician culture was established in the blending of Ibero-Roman culture with that of the Suebi [1]. As with most Germanic invasions, the number of the original Suebi invaders is estimated at fewer than 30,000, settling mainly in the zones around Bra ...

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Kingdom of Galicia, Kingdom of Galicia - The Suebic Kingdom, Kingdom of Galicia - Suebi Kings of Galicia, Kingdom of Galicia - Asturian Kings of Galicia, Kingdom of Galicia - Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal, Kingdom of Galicia - King of Galicia and Portugal, Kingdom of Galicia - Leonese Kings of Galicia

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2000 years ago the Baltic Sea was known to the Romans as the Mare Suebicum. Partially because of his unfamiliarity with the various Germanic peoples interacting with Rome at the time, the historian Tacitus referred to all eastern Germanic people as Suebi. More recent scholarship has shown that view to be an oversimplification. The Suebi eventually migrated south and west to reside for a while in the Rhineland area of modern Germany, where their name survives in the historic region known as Swabia. The Suebi under Ariovistus were invited into Gallia by the Aedui but soon came to dominate them and were fina ...

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Suebi, Suebi - Early history, Suebi - Suebic kingdom of Gallaecia, Suebi - Suebi Kings of Gallaecia

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2000 years ago the Baltic Sea was known to the Romans as the Mare Suebicum. Partially because of his unfamiliarity with the various Germanic peoples interacting with Rome at the time, the historian Tacitus referred to all Elbe-Germanics as Suebi. More recent scholarship has shown that view to be an oversimplification. The Suebi eventually migrated south and west to reside for a while in the Rhineland area of modern Germany, where their name survives in the historic region known as Swabia. The Suebi under Ariovistus were invited into Gallia by the Aedui but soon came to dominate them and were fina ...

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Suebi, Suebi - Early history, Suebi - Sueve kingdom of Gallaecia, Suebi - Suebi Kings of Gallaecia

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List of Leonese monarchs - Pérez Dynasty. Ordoño I (850–866) Alfonso III the Great (866–910) García I (910–914) Ordoño II (914–924), also the king of Galicia from 910 Fruela II (924–925), also the king of Galicia from 924 and of Asturias from 910 Alfonso IV the Monk (925–931), died 933 Ramiro II (931–951) Ordoño III (951–956) Sancho I the Fat (956–958) Ordoño IV the Wicked (958–960) Sancho I t ...

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List of Leonese monarchs, List of Leonese monarchs - Kings of León, List of Leonese monarchs - Pérez Dynasty, List of Leonese monarchs - Jiménez Dynasty, List of Leonese monarchs - House of Burgundy, List of Leonese monarchs - House of Trastámara

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Situation of Viveiro within Galicia Image:Riaviveiro.jpg Viveiro is a municipality of Galicia, Spain in the province of Lugo. It is located at the foot of the estuary (ría de Viveiro). The region has a population of 15,379 (as of 2003) and covers 109 km². Viveiro - Tourism. Viveiro's economy is dedicated to fishing and tourism. It has a lovely maritime esplanade of glass-enclosed façades and a historical medieval church, which combines Romanesque and Gothic elements.Including:

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The Suebic kingdom in Gallaecia lasted from 410 to 584 and seems to have enjoyed relatively stable government for most of that time. Historians like José António Lopes Silva, the translator of Idatius' chronicles, the primary written source for the period, find that the essential temper of Galician culture was established in the blending of Ibero-Roman culture with that of the Suebi [1]. The number of the original Suebic invaders is estimated as fewer than 30,000 people, settled mainly in the zones of Braga (Bracara Augusta), Porto, ...

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Suebi, Suebi - Early history, Suebi - Suebic kingdom of Gallaecia, Suebi - Suebi Kings of Gallaecia

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The Congress Poland is an unofficial term for the Kingdom of Poland (1815-1831), a political entity that was created out of the Duchy of Warsaw at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, when European powers reorganised Europe following the Napoleonic wars. It had an area of roughly 127 000 km² (compared with over 1 million km² of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) and a population of approximately 2,600,000 (in 1814) (compared with approximately 10 million Commonwealth citizens). Congress Poland largely emerged as a result of the effor ...

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The Sueve kingdom in Gallaecia was established at 410 and lasted until 584 after a century of slow decline. Unlike the Ostrogoth kingdom of Italy or the Visigoth kingdom in Spain, it never reached major political relevance. Braulio of Zaragoza depicted it as the extremity of the west in an illiterate country where naught is heard but the sound of gales. Therefore very little remains from it and there are no traces left of their Germanic tongue as the Sue ...

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Suebi, Suebi - Early history, Suebi - Sueve kingdom of Gallaecia, Suebi - Suebi Kings of Gallaecia

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The monarch of the duchy, with title of Grand Duke of Poznań, was the Hohenzollern king of Prussia and his representative was the Duke-Governor: the first was Prince Antoni Radziwiłł (1815-1831), who was married to Princess Luise of Prussia, the king's cousin. The governor was assigned to give advice in matters of Polish nationality, and had the right to veto the administration decisions; in reality, however, all administrative p ...

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Grand Duchy of Poznań, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Area and population, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Territorial administration, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Poznań District Rejencja Poznańska Poznań, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Bydgoszcz District Rejencja Bydgoska Bydgoszcz, Grand Duchy of Poznań - History, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Repression system after 1830, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Milder period after 1840, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Autonomy abolished 1848, Grand Duchy of Poznań - The Kulturkampf in 1880s, Grand Duchy of Poznań - The liberation 1918-1919, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Polish organizations in the Grand Duchy of Poznań, Grand Duchy of Poznań - German organizations in the Grand Duchy of Poznań, Grand Duchy of Poznań - Famous people of the Grand Duchy of Poznań

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The creation of the Commonwealth by the Union of Lublin in 1569 was one of the signal achievements of Sigismund II Augustus, last king of the Jagiellon dynasty. His death in 1572 was followed by a three-year interregnum during which adjustments were made to the constitutional system that effectively increased the power of the nobility (the szlachta) and established a truly elective monarchy. The Commonwealth reached its Golden Age in the first half of the 17th century. Its powerful parliament (the Sejm) was dominated by nobles ...

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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - History, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - State organization and politics, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Commonwealth military, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Golden Liberty, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - The political players, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Shortcomings of the Commonwealth, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Late reforms, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Economy, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Culture, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Szlachta and Sarmatism, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Demographics and religion, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Provinces and geography, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Voivodships of the Commonwealth

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Image:Portadavila.jpg Since pre-Roman times Viveiro has been a rich enclave. Since 1112 it has been administered by Mondoñedo Bishop. In 1346 King Afonso IX declared Viveiro a Vila Realenga (royal city), which ultimately freed it from the yoke of the Catholic Church. Marechal Pardo de Cela was lord of Viveiro until his defeat and execution in Mondoñedo by the allies of Isabel I of Castilla. His daughter, Constanza de Castro, who fought for the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Galicia from her Castle of Caldaloba, is buri ...

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Viveiro, Viveiro - Tourism, Viveiro - History, Viveiro - Parishes

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"Starvation is here," said General von Kries. "Candidly, we would like to see it relieved; we fear our soldiers may be unfavourably affected by the things that they see. But since it is here, starvation must serve our purpose. So we set it to work for Germany. By starvation we can accomplish in two or three years in East Poland more than we have in West Poland, which is East Prussia, in the last hundred years. With that in view, we propose to turn this force to our advantage." "This country is meant for Germany," continued the keep ...

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At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Stalin was able to present his western allies, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, with a fait accompli in Poland. His armed forces were in occupation of the country, and his agents, the Polish Communists, were in control of its administration. The USSR was in the process of incorporating the lands in eastern Poland which it had occupied between 1939 and 1941. In compensation, the USSR awarded Poland all the German territories in Pomerania, Silesia and Brandenburg east of the Oder-Neisse ...

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People's Republic of Poland, People's Republic of Poland - History, People's Republic of Poland - Government and politics, People's Republic of Poland - Economy, People's Republic of Poland - Culture, People's Republic of Poland - Demographics, People's Republic of Poland - Geography

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Occupied by German and Austro-Hungarian armies in the summer of 1915, the formerly Russian-ruled part of what was considered Poland was proclaimed an independent kingdom by the occupying powers on November 5, 1916, with a governing Council of State and (from October 15, 1917) a Regency Council (Rada Regencyjna Królestwa Polskiego) to administer the country under German auspices pending the election of a king. Shortly before the end of World War I, on October 7, 1918, the Regency Council dissolved the Council of State and annou ...

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Second Polish Republic, Second Polish Republic - History, Second Polish Republic - List of events, Second Polish Republic - World War II, Second Polish Republic - Politics and government, Second Polish Republic - Economy, Second Polish Republic - Demographics, Second Polish Republic - Culture, Second Polish Republic - Geography and demographics

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Main articles: History of Poland (966-1385), Kingdom of Poland of the first Piasts, Kingdom of Poland during feudal dissolution, Kingdom of Poland of the later Piasts The Polish state was born in 966 with the baptism of Mieszko I, duke of the Slavic tribe of Polans and founder of the Piast dynasty. His conversion from Pagnism to Christianity marked the first written historical event of Poland. By 990, when Mieszko officially submitted to the authority of the Holy See, he had transformed his country into one of the strongest pow ...

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History of Poland, History of Poland - Early history of Poland 966-1385, History of Poland - The Jagiellon Era 1385-1572, History of Poland - The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1572-1795, History of Poland - Partitioned Poland 1795-1918, History of Poland - Independence Regained 1918-1939, History of Poland - World War II in Poland 1939-1945, History of Poland - People's Republic of Poland 1945-1989, History of Poland - Martial law, History of Poland - The Third Republic 1989-present

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The name Galicia comes from the Latin name Gallaecia, associated with the name of the ancient Celtic tribe that resided above the Douro river, the Gallaeci or Callaeci in Latin, and Kallaikoi in Greek (these tribes were mentioned by Herodotus). Before the Roman invasion, a series of tribes lived in the region, having — according to Strabo, Pliny, Herodotus and others — a similar culture and customs. These tribes appear to have Celtic culture; there is evidence that the last Galician Celtic speaker died in the 15th ce ...

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Galicia Spain, Galicia Spain - History, Galicia Spain - Language, Galicia Spain - Geography, Galicia Spain - Economy, Galicia Spain - Population, Galicia Spain - Cuisine, Galicia Spain - Famous Galicians, Galicia Spain - Outstanding contemporary musicians and groups, Galicia Spain - Football Teams, Galicia Spain - Holidays, Galicia Spain - Political Parties

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Duchy of Warsaw - Napoleon's campaign against Russia. Poles expected in 1812 that the duchy would be upgraded to the status of a kingdom and that during Napoleon's march on Russia, it would be joined with the liberated territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland's historic partner in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. However, Napoleon did not want to make a permanent decision that would tie his ha ...

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In late 11th century, Henry of Portugal, a knight from Burgundy and descendant of king Robert II, was in search of adventure in Hispania. He fought the Moors along with Alfonso VI of Leon. In honour of his fights in Hispania, the King gave him the county of Portugal. This gift came with a reinstated title; because of attempts by the previous holder some years earlier to assert independence, it had been suppressed. Henry became count of Portugal ...

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