How To Use Galicia In A Sentence
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Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain.
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For example, only two weeks after the start of the Russian campaign, the Wiking Division massacred 600 Galician Jews in "reprisal for Soviet cruelties".
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(* 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
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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.
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Simon Wiesenthal was born in Galicia, Ukraine, in 1908, an area which became part of Poland during the interwar years.
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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.
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West from there they are seen on the north coast in the gentler province of Galicia.
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Nash is also a Slovak-influenced Galician subdialect of Ukrainian.
Languagehat.com: SVOJA MOVA.
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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.
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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.
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We have just open a web page with cartographical representation of Galician Surnames.
Memery
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An encore of a Galician folk song was a welcome chance to appreciate the group's many talents once again.
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So a walking day was nearly always followed by a relaxing one watching another spectacular vista slip by as the trains took us across contrasting landscapes: mountainous Basque country, coastal Cantabria and green Galicia.
The train in Spain: a pilgrimage for softies
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The business of the latter is to go into every one of these new communities, without expressing its opinion as to whether the Doukhobor, or Galician, or Bulgarian, or any other class, should or should not have been brought here.
The Business Man and the Churches
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Accompaniment is provided by the bagpipe-like Galician national instrument, the gaita, which reflects the Celtic origins of the Galician people.
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P.S. Look us up if you ever need a place to stay in Galicia, Spain or Sydney, Australia!
Life blurs in constant motion « Wanderings
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Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
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For example, a web search revealed that in Galicia, Spain, one of the local forms of handicrafts is an exvoto cast from wax, often of a body part.
Exvotos: Folk art and expressions of faith in Mexico
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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.
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According to Amparo Ruiz, an occupational therapist in Galicia, Spain who helped supervise some of the trials, The elderly people like it when they play and feel integrated into the new technologies.
Old Folks video games ;p
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The bufo, a Galician, had been seen going into the German Legation on that last afternoon.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Alternately, the Galician-Portuguese Western extreme of the ecoregion is characterized by lower smooth elevations, which correspond to very old massifs shaped by the late Paleozoic Hercynian orogeny.
Cantabrian mixed forests
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“Mrs Lopez blogged from the seaside town of Muxia, where she was born in 1911, or from the farmhouse in Galicia belonging to her grandson, Daniel.”
World’s oldest blogger dies, aged 97
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So please, if there are any linguists out there specializing in the Jewish shtetls of Galicia and the city of Rovno in particular, let me know if you have any leads.
Shaking the Family Tree
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‘We're monitoring the evolution of the slicks both where the tanker sank as well as around the coast of Galicia,’ he said.
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The slick close to Spain's shores was bigger than the 5,000 tons of fuel oil spilled when the Prestige was holed off the Galician coast on November 13.
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Galician lyric and courtly poetry flourished until the middle of the fourteenth century.
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Fashioning Reelroad's sounds are Alexey Belkin on gusli, Galician bagpiipe, shuttle pipe, zheleika and vocals; Svetlana Kondesyuk on flute, zheleika and vocals; Natalie Visokikh on violin; Alexey Skosirev on bass guitar; Anastasia Karaseva on Irish harp, tin whistle, pandereta and vocals; Alexander Cap Dmitriev on acoustic guitar, banjo and vocals and Denis Nikoforov on drums.
World Music Central
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It also plans a large logistics centre in Barcelona to add to its headquarters in Galicia, northwest Spain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greetings from Pontevedra, in Galicia (Northwest Spain) where Isma and I are spending a week's holiday visiting my friend Xose.
Breakfast in Bed
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The town of Dukla lies some fifteen miles due north of the Galician debouchment of the pass of that name, and Rymanow is about another fifteen miles east of that.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes
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After almost disappearing from the linguistic map, Galician is now alive and well.
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[* 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.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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It also plans a large logistics centre in Barcelona to add to its headquarters in Galicia, northwest Spain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moses Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Brody, a middle-sized city a few miles from the Russian border in the imperial crownland of Galicia.
Emperor of Nostalgia
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The Central Powers occupied all of Galicia and Bukovina by the end of June.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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The music endures and comforts, just as music endured and comforted in Ireland and Galicia during their years of misery.
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Heraldically, they derive from the Azure, the lion rampant or coat of arms of the Galician Volynian Prince Lev I.
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The Ensemble's dozen-plus virtuoso musicians play a range of traditional instruments spanning Europe and Asia, from the Chinese pipa of Wu Man (who's been featured on a Tiny Desk Concert) to the Galician gaita (bagpipe) of Cristina Pato.
News
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Galicia is teeming with seafood, and Albarino is a natural with just about all of it.
Sushi: an impossible food-wine pairing? | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Most bagpipes are solo instruments, though some are also associated with marching bands, notably the Highland pipe and the Galician gaita.
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He was preceded by a handful of annalists, notably Hydatius in Galicia, and followed, among others, by Gregory of Tours and Fredegar in Francia, Isidore in Spain, Bede in Northumbria, and Paul the Deacon in Italy.
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Despite being a regular for Depor, the Galician outfit could well be persuaded to part with their midfielder - who is under contract at The Riazor until June 2006 - if a sizeable offer comes in.
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In particular, I want to drive up the Douro valley from Porto to the vineyards where the grapes for port wine are grown, and I want to see more of the estuaries of the Galician coast.
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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.
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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.
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Born in the Italian city of Bari, raised in Vigo in the Spanish region of Galicia and currently thriving at FC Barcelona, Thiago Alcantara certainly has as an interesting background.
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One ringed in Galicia, Spain, as a pullus in July 1989, was found freshly dead on the Isle of Wight in February 1992.
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The Jewish presence in Romania dates back to the fifteenth century, but it reached significant proportions only in the seventeenth century with the major waves of emigration from eastern and northeastern Europe and, as a result of the Chmielnicki massacres (1648 – 1649), from Ukraine, Galicia and Bukovina as well.
Romania, Women and Jewish Education.
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But the Ruthenians of Galicia had no wish to be ruled over by Poles and drew close to the Czechs in defence of Austro-Slavism.
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He specializes in Celtic music, and plays all sorts of instruments, including a Galician gaita.
Making Light: The new new TSA regulations
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Additional YMCA groups later emerged in Bohemia, Moravia, Galicia, Bukovina, and Hungary before the onset of World War I.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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It seems that a Cuban blogger who lives in Galicia, in Spain, has fallen foul of the the Major of Oleiros who is supposed to be a Galician nationalist, which he seems to display by attacking the United States and, especially, Israel whenever he can.
Rum story from Spain
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Galicia and Southern Poland, wirelessed July 4 from Berlin to
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
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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
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Prague and Galicia and Hungary, from Lombardy and Venetia, and from their own easy-going capital, had destituted Metternich.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
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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
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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"
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If, in addition, Russia takes Galicia, an early bath for Austria is on the cards.
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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.
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The dynastically related western principality of Halych (Galicia) and Volyn resisted the Mongols and Tatars and became a Rus bastion through the fourteenth century.
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Lázaro de Arregui's Descripción de la Nueva Galicia is also interesting in other respects.
Did You Know? Tequila dates from the sixteenth century
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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.
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Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon.
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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
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In the north the Russians held Riga and the Dwina line, in the center they were behind the great marshes of Pinsk, to the south they were behind the Styr and Stripa, still holding Rowno, still clinging to a corner of Galicia.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
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Macedon but in the Peninsula, namely the Minho, which probably got its denomination from that race cognate to the Cumry, the Gael, who were the first colonisers of the Peninsula, and whose generic name yet stares us in the face and salutes our ears in the words Galicia and Portugal.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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The coastline of Galicia has a ragged quality to it that takes the form of many bays and inlets which are known locally as rias.
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The monophonic and polyphonic repertoire of Notre Dame was cultivated in the same as the popular Cantigas de amigo, secular love-songs in Galician-Portuguese, the then poetic language.
Archive 2009-07-01
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This vine has also been planted in Galicia and Rueda, where it is being uprooted in favour of local varieties, and in the increasingly vinously significant Canary Islands where it is the main white variety.
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Bierzo, abutting Galicia in the north west, shows promise with its light fragrant reds from the Mencía grape.
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Wearing trousers, with her bare arms snaking out of a short black waistcoat, he performed a farruca, a Galician dance traditionally meant to assert male dignity.
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The master of the gaita (the Galician version of the bagpipe), Nunez embraces a range of influences including the Celtic strains of Ireland, Scotland and Brittany.
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Galician folklore includes many charms and rituals related to the different stages and events of the life cycle.
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His three armies 6th, 11th, and 17th and the 1st Armored Group under Ewald von Kleist, would sweep out of Galician Poland, in a huge arc aimed at Kiev, taking advantage of the good terrain, its left flank shielded by the Pripet Marshes.
Deathride
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Everyone in the busy tapas bar I ventured into was tucking into heaped platefuls of pulpo, Galicia's ‘national’ dish, scallops and tasty, but tough-to-open percebes, unique to the rias.
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Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
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Galicia is a mountainous land of ever-present rain and mists and lush greenery.
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Spain's ancient musical heritage includes bagpipe music in Galicia and Asturias, sardanas (circle dances) in Catalonia, flamenco dancing accompanied by the guitar in Andalusia, and the lively Aragonese dance called the jota.
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Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
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This is a classic tapa from the Basque region of Spain, and is also very popular in nearby Galicia, where apple growing and hard cider (sidra) have been traditions for centuries.
Kurt Michael Friese: The Hard Truth of Johnny Appleseed, and a Recipe with Hard Cider
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The beaches that lie in some of the more protected rias have a warmer sea than those which are exposed, although water temperatures in Galicia never reach the heights found in the south of Spain.
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The despoliation of the Galician coastline raises fundamental issues which must be urgently addressed.
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Mr. Lugo-Galicia reports that he was "irate," and launched recriminations against his closest confidants saying, "they lied to me, they deceived me.
Showdown at Fort Tiuna
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Due to historical ties and geographic propinquity, until the middle of the 14th century, Galician and Portuguese were in fact the same language, known as ‘Galaico Portugues’.
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They have been joined by three other Spanish groups, the Basques, Galicians and Valencians who also want their languages officially recognised.
