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Galegos Na Diáspora
Galegos may refer to: *Galegos (Santa Maria), a parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal *Galegos (São Martinho), a parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal * Galegos (Penafiel), a parish in the municipality of Penafiel, Portugal * Galegos (Póvoa de Lanhoso), a parish in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal *The name for the Galician people in the Galician language See also * Galician (other) Galician may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Galicia (Spain) ** Galician language ** Galician people ** Gallaeci, a large Celtic tribal federation who inhabited Gallaecia (currently Galicia (Spain) * Something of, from, or related t ...
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Galegos (Santa Maria)
Galegos (Santa Maria) is a Portuguese ''freguesia ''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Port ...'' ("civil parish"), located in the municipality of Barcelos. The population in 2011 was 2,987, in an area of 4.59 km². References Freguesias of Barcelos, Portugal {{braga-geo-stub ...
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Barcelos Municipality, Portugal
Barcelos () is a city and a municipality in Braga District in the Minho Province, in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 120,391, in an area of 378.90 km2. With 60 parishes, it is the municipality with the highest number of parishes in the country. It is one of the growing municipalities in the country, and is well known by its textile and adobe industries, as well as its horseback riding events and "figurado" style of pottery, which are comical figurines with accentuated features of farmers, folk musicians, and nativity scene characters. Barcelos is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a Crafts and Folk Art City. History Originally a Roman settlement, it expanded and became the seat of the First Duke of Bragança in the 15th century. The palace of the Dukes of Bragança was destroyed by an earthquake in 1755 and is now an open-air museum. The town is on the Portuguese Way, a Christian pilgrimage route connecting the Camino de Santiago. Constru ...
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ...
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Galegos (São Martinho)
Galegos (São Martinho) is a Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ... parish, located in the municipality of Barcelos. The population in 2011 was 1,930, in an area of 3.12 km2. References Freguesias of Barcelos, Portugal {{braga-geo-stub ...
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Galegos (Penafiel)
Galegos may refer to: *Galegos (Santa Maria), a parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal *Galegos (São Martinho), a parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal * Galegos (Penafiel), a parish in the municipality of Penafiel, Portugal * Galegos (Póvoa de Lanhoso), a parish in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal *The name for the Galician people in the Galician language See also * Galician (other) Galician may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Galicia (Spain) ** Galician language ** Galician people ** Gallaeci, a large Celtic tribal federation who inhabited Gallaecia (currently Galicia (Spain) * Something of, from, or related t ...
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Penafiel Municipality
Penafiel ( or () is a municipality and former bishopric (now a Latin Catholic titular see) in the northern Portuguese district of Porto. Capital of the Tâmega Subregion, the population was 72,265 in 2011, in an area of . History The region was occupied since pre-history, as evidenced by the proliferation of megalithic monuments, stone settlements and castros. This includes the Menhir of Luzim, a tall stone dating to an occupation of 3–4000 years B.C. Similarly, in the civil parish of Luzim, are the rock engravings that have existed for 3000 years. In addition, there are various rock forts ( castros), subject of archaeological studies, such as the archaeological "city of the dead" in Citânia de Monte Mozinho. One of the largest in the Iberian Peninsula, it was the precursor to the Galician organized community of ''Cividade Gallaeci''; the hill fort is dotted with traces of various cultures: Galician-Lusitanian, Roman, Visigoth and Moorish. There different legends that in ...
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Galegos (Póvoa De Lanhoso)
Galegos is a Portuguese Freguesia in the Municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ... of Póvoa de Lanhoso, with an area of 2.50 km² and 543 inhabitants (2011). Population References {{Reflist Freguesias of Póvoa de Lanhoso ...
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Póvoa De Lanhoso
Póvoa de Lanhoso (, ) is a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in the district of Braga (district), Braga, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 21,886, in an area of 134.65 km². The present Mayor is Avelino Silva, elected by the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is March 19. Parishes The municipality is subdivided into the following 22 parishes: * Águas Santas e Moure * Calvos e Frades * Campos e Louredo * Covelas (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Covelas * Esperança e Brunhais * Ferreiros (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Ferreiros * Fonte Arcada e Oliveira * Galegos (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Galegos * Garfe * Geraz do Minho * Lanhoso * Monsul * Póvoa de Lanhoso (parish), Póvoa de Lanhoso * Rendufinho * Santo Emilião * São João de Rei * Serzedelo (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Serzedelo * Sobradelo da Goma * Taíde * Travassos (parish), Travassos * Verim, Friande e Ajude * Vilela (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Vilela Notable people * Gonçalo Sampaio ...
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Galician People
Galicians ( gl, galegos, es, gallegos, link=no) are a Celtic-Romance ethnic group from Spain that is closely related to the Portuguese people and has its historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. Two Romance languages are widely spoken and official in Galicia: the native Galician and Spanish. Etymology The ethnonym of the Galicians (''galegos'') derives directly from the Latin ''Gallaeci'' or ''Callaeci'', itself an adaptation of the name of a local Celtic tribe known to the Greeks as Καλλαϊκoί (''Kallaikoí''). They lived in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal and were defeated by the Roman General Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus in the 2nd century BCE and later conquered by Augustus. The Romans later applied that name to all the people who shared the same culture and language in the north-west, from the Douro River valley in the south to the Cantabrian Sea in the north and west to the Navia River. That encompassed such tribes ...
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