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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region of central Europe in southeast Poland and western Ukraine. An independent principality after 1087, it was conquered by Russians in the 12th century and later passed to Poland and Austria. The territory was returned to Poland after World War I, and the eastern portion was ceded to the USSR after World War II.
- A region and ancient kingdom of northwest Spain on the Atlantic Ocean south of the Bay of Biscay. Exploited by the Romans for its mineral resources, it later became a Goth kingdom and a stronghold of the Moors.
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- proper noun A historical
kingdom ofCentral Europe , now divided betweenPoland andUkraine . - proper noun A former
Iberian kingdom , now anautonomous region ofSpain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay
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Lázaro de Arregui's Descripción de la Nueva Galicia is also interesting in other respects.
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Lázaro de Arregui's Descripción de la Nueva Galicia is also interesting in other respects.
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Lázaro de Arregui's Descripción de la Nueva Galicia is also interesting in other respects.
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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.
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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 2009
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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.
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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 desayunoencama 2007
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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.
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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 Helen 2006
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