Kingdom of Galicia

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The Kingdom of Galicia ( Galician: Reino de Galiza ) was a kingdom in medieval Spain, which had emerged in the early 10th century from the Kingdom of Asturias. It was his story closely associated over the neighboring kingdom of León, as well as the Kingdom of Castile and Leon in a personal union and had rarely own king.

History

As part of the migration of the Germanic tribe of the Suevi settled in the early 5th century in the former Roman province of Gallaecia and there founded their own kingdom. This was incorporated in the late 6th century by the dominant on the Iberian Peninsula Visigoths in the kingdom, with which it again fell 711 under the rule of the Islamic- Moorish conquerors.

In the incipient Christian Reconquista Spanish Galicia was conquered about the year 740 by King Alfonso I of Asturias, the incarnated the country the Kingdom of Asturias. When in 910 the three sons of King Alfonso III. successfully revolted and were deposed her father, she shared the Asturian kingdom among themselves. The second eldest son Ordoño II took over while Galicia. But already he founded the enduring unity of Galicia with Leon when he could take over this kingdom in the year 914 by his older brother García I.. In 1230 was also the long-term personal union of León - Castile Galicia by King Ferdinand III. founded the saints, and went out with this at the beginning of the 16th century in a united Spain.

The institutions of the Kingdom of Galicia passed, however, continued until the 19th century and were only resolved in the course of processing performed by the minister Javier de Burgos territorial reorganization of Spain in 1833 and replaced by the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. These in turn were summarized in the historical region of Galicia, as one of the 17 autonomous communities in Spain ( Comunidad Autónoma ) persists since 1982 until today.