Galicia
Americannoun
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a region in E central Europe: a former crown land of Austria, included in S Poland after World War I, and now partly in Ukraine. About 30,500 sq. mi. (79,000 sq. km).
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a maritime region in NW Spain: a former kingdom, and later a province. 11,256 sq. mi. (29,153 sq. km).
noun
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a region of E central Europe on the N side of the Carpathians, now in SE Poland and Ukraine
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an autonomous region and former kingdom of NW Spain, on the Bay of Biscay and the Atlantic. Pop: 1 969 000 (2003 est)
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Last winter, she and her husband moved to Tomiño, a small town in Galicia, in northern Spain, close to the Portuguese border.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Those fines ought to go into a fund to assist Juan Galicia and others like him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
"You've got all the roads and public transport nearby, so it's easier to come here than to Barcelona, Andalusia or Galicia, for example. Here you've got trains, planes, everything."
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Galicia told me, as he told The Times’ Seamus Bozeman in July, that he intends to rebuild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
She noticed that the voice from Galicia had ceased hammering at her brain.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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