Kingdom of Galicia
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Kingdom of Galicia 409-1833 |
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| Official language | Galician | ||||
| Capital | Santiago de Compostela | ||||
| Form of government | kingdom | ||||
| Form of government | monarchy | ||||
| Head of state | king | ||||
| Existence period | 409-1833 | ||||
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The Kingdom of Galicia (Galician: Reino de Galiza ) was a kingdom in medieval Spain that emerged from the Kingdom of Asturias in the early 10th century . Its history was closely associated in a personal union with the neighboring Kingdom of León as well as the Kingdom of Castile-León and rarely had its own king.
history
In the course of the Great Migration , the Germanic Suebi tribe settled in the former Roman province of Gallaecia in the early 5th century and founded their own kingdom there. This was incorporated in the late 6th century by the Visigoths who dominated the Iberian Peninsula into their empire, with which it again fell under the rule of the Islamic-Moorish conquerors after 711.
In the beginning of the Christian-Spanish Reconquista , Galicia was conquered around 740 by King Alfonso I of Asturias , who incorporated the country into the Kingdom of Asturias . When in 910 the three sons of King Alfonso III. successfully revolted and deposed their father, they divided the Asturian Empire among themselves. The second eldest son Ordoño II took over Galicia. But he established the permanent unity of Galicia with León when he was able to take over this kingdom from his older brother García I in 914 . In 1230, the permanent personal union of León-Galicia with Castile by King Ferdinand III. founded the saint and merged with this at the beginning of the 16th century in united Spain.
However, the institutions of the Kingdom of Galicia continued into the 19th century and were only dissolved in the course of the territorial reorganization of Spain carried out by the Minister Javier de Burgos in 1833 and replaced by the provinces of A Coruña , Lugo , Ourense and Pontevedra . These in turn were combined in the historical region of Galicia , which has existed since 1982 as one of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain ( Comunidad Autónoma ) to this day.