The Galician League of

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(''Liga Gallega'' in both

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and

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) was a liberal and Galician regionalist political group founded in 1897 in

by the participants in the regionalist club A Cova Céltiga (''The Celtic Cave''), with its headquarters in the Carré Aldao library; chaired by

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and directed by a committee consisting of

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, Uxío Carré Aldao and Salvador Golpe.

History

In 1898 the statutes of the League were drafted, entirely in

.For the first time in a political organization. Waldo Álvarez Insua was elected as the president of the organization in 1899. It was one of the currents in which the Galician Regionalist Association bifurcated. The Galician League of

was liberal, while the Galician League of Santiago de Compostela was ideologically

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. The league demanded autonomy for

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, conducting in 1897 a signature collection to ask for the same autonomy than

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and

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. After 1900 the League had little activity, but survived until 1907. The official newspaper of the organization was the bilingual weekly Revista Gallega, directed by

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. Thanks to an initiative of the League, and specially of

, in 1904 a monument to the

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was built in the town of Carral.

References

*Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): ''O nacionalismo galego''.

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*Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais,

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