Galicia

How To Use Galicia In A Sentence

• Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain.
• For example, only two weeks after the start of the Russian campaign, the Wiking Division massacred 600 Galician Jews in "reprisal for Soviet cruelties".
• (* In Galicia, in Spain, I saw the thonschiefer containing chiastholite alternate with grauwacke; but the chiastolite unquestionably belongs also to rocks which all geologists have hitherto called primitive rocks, to mica-schists intercalated like layers in granite, and to an independent stratum of mica-slate.) 3. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
• It is such a vital date in the musical calendar that artists from as far away as Galicia and Brittany time the release of new albums to coincide with it.
• Simon Wiesenthal was born in Galicia, Ukraine, in 1908, an area which became part of Poland during the interwar years.
• Although the team took a significant step towards the quarter-finals, the manager will know better than to think all was perfect in Galicia last night.
• West from there they are seen on the north coast in the gentler province of Galicia.
• Nash is also a Slovak-influenced Galician subdialect of Ukrainian. Languagehat.com: SVOJA MOVA.
• This weekend, the ‘black tide’ of oil spilled by the Prestige last week before it was towed out to sea was still soiling a 240-mile stretch of coast in the north-west Galicia region.
• Many people believe that this must be a local variety, for it certainly tastes nothing like the Torrontes grape from the Galicia region of north-west Spain.