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/ɡəˈɫɪʃiə/
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NOUN
- a region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay
How To Use Galicia In A Sentence
- Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
- Other chants, like Agnus dei: Qui pius ac mitis, were expanded, or “troped” with additional text and music, and it was perhaps as an educational gesture that Greek, Hebrew, and Galician words were added to the ancient double-versicle “prosa” Alleluia: Gratulemur et letemur. Archive 2009-04-01
- Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon.
- There is general agreement that the most outstanding of all Galician wine is the white Albarino from the Val de Salnes, introduced from the Rhine by Benedictine monks from Cluny during the twelfth century.
- Lázaro de Arregui's Descripción de la Nueva Galicia is also interesting in other respects. Did You Know? Tequila dates from the sixteenth century
- The dynastically related western principality of Halych (Galicia) and Volyn resisted the Mongols and Tatars and became a Rus bastion through the fourteenth century.
- Four of their core Western classical-oriented members also play as Brooklyn Rider - longtime NPR Music staff favorites - and other master musicians in this adventurous band include the Galician gaita bagpipe dazzler Cristina Pato as well as pipa Wu Man. News
- If, in addition, Russia takes Galicia, an early bath for Austria is on the cards.
- It was incorporated with Galicia in a single province in 1786, but was separated from it in 1849, and made a separate crownland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- A native mineral paraffine, known as ozocerite, is mined in Utah and Galicia; it is used as an insulating material. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges