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Alonso Pita da Veiga

Alonso Pita da Veiga, born in Ferrol in 15th century Galicia, Spain, was one of the most remarkable officers of the Spanish Tercios fighting under the orders of Count Fernando de Andrade in the Battle of Pavia (Italy), and in other battles of the Italian Wars between the years 1513-1525.

Antoni Popiel

Antoni Popiel (13 June 1865 Szczakowa, Galicia (now Jaworzno) - 7 July 1910 Lubien near Lviv) was a Polish sculptor.

Augustus III of Poland

English translation: August III, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia (i.e. Galicia), Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlaskie, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, Chernihiv, and also hereditary Duke of Saxony and Prince-elector.

Barbanza e Iria

The area covered by this geographical indication comprises the municipalities of Catoira, Valga, Pontecesures, Padrón, Dodro, Rianxo, Boiro, A Pobra do Caramiñal, Ribeira and some parts of Porto do Son and Lousame, located in the provinces of A Coruña and Pontevedra, in Galicia, Spain.

Bud Andrews

Andrews (first name pronounced SER CEE) was born in Lubbock to Curcy Andrews, Sr., originally from Honey Grove in Fannin County in northeast Texas, and the former Ollie Lee Townsend (1907–1993), who grew up on a ranch in Plains near Brownfield in West Texas.

Bukovina Germans

Population growth and a shortage of land led to the establishment of daughter settlements in Galicia, Bessarabia and the Dobruja.

Caldelas

Castro Caldelas, a municipality in the province of Ourense, Galicia, Spain.

Carlos Ferrás Sexto

Ferrás Sexto completed his PhD under the supervision of Patrick O'Flanagan, conducting a comparative study on the parallel evolution and rural change between Ireland and Galicia.

Carmen Fariña

Carmen Fariña (Galicia, 1942) is the current New York City Schools Chancellor, the head of the New York City Department of Education.

Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco

These Arms are a variation of the Arms of the de Andrade family of Galicia, from whom she is twice descended from the Pardo de Andrade branch, and twice again from the 7th Counts of Lemos and Sarria.

Cee-lo

Many hip hop artists have referenced the dice game "Cee-Lo" in rap songs ever since the 1990s.

Celtic Fest Chicago

Not just an "Irish" festival, Celtic Fest Chicago is a cultural celebration of the ancient Celtic nations of Ireland; Brittany, France; Galicia, Spain; Scotland; the Isle of Man; Cornwall and Wales.

Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia

The list of keynote/invited/panel speakers from previous CEE-SECR’s includes: Thomas Erl, Bjarne Stroustrup, Erich Gamma, Richard Soley, Igor Agamirzian, Grady Booch, Lars Bak, Alexander L. Wolf, Yuri Gurevich, Victor Ivannikov, Stephen Mellor, Larry Constantine, Ivar Jacobson, Rick Kazman, Michael Cusumano and other leading figures in the software field.

Coronus

Coronus, a deity of the Lusitanian mythology, in the cultural area of Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galicia and Extremadura (Spain) and Portugal)

CunninLynguists

The group toured throughout the U.S. and Canada in 2003, 2004 and 2005, appearing onstage alongside acts like Nappy Roots, Cee-Lo Green of Goodie Mob and touring extensively with People Under the Stairs, Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan and Brand Nubian.

Eduard Bitterlich

Eduard Bitterlich (August 17, 1833, Stupnicka, or Dubliany, Galicia, now Ukraine - May 20, 1872, Pfalzau, now part of Pressbaum) was born in Galicia where his father had established himself.

Gliniany

Hlyniany, Lviv oblast, Ukraine (formerly Gliniany, Poland; and formerly in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire)

Gutierre Vermúdez

Gutierre Vermúdez (or Gutier Bermúdez) (died 1130) was a nobleman of the Kingdom of León, with interests primarily in Galicia, mainly in the northeast, around Lugo.

Hyacinthoides paivae

Hyacinthoides paivae is endemic to the north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, including western parts of Galicia (A Coruña, Ourense and Pontevedra provinces) and north-western parts of Portugal (Beira Litoral, Douro Litoral, Minho and Trás-os-Montes provinces).

IECEE/CEE

Under the name of "CEE connectors" most medium industrial appliances use connectors according to the IEC 60309 standard.

Jakub Szela

Jakub Szela (was born 1787, Smarżowa, in Galicia - died 1862 or 1866, Vicşani, in Bukovina, now Romania) was a Polish leader of a pro-Austrian peasant uprising against the Polish gentry in Galicia in 1846; directed against manorial property and oppression (for example, the manorial prisons) and rising against serfdom; scores of manors were attacked and their inhabitants murdered.

Jewish Social Democratic Party

Except for its organization in Galicia and Bukovina, the party also had presence (at warying times) in Vienna, New York, Antwerp and Bielsk.

Karol D. Witkowski

In 1879 he enlisted in the Austrian Army (in 19th century southern Poland was occupied by Austria and named Galicia), where he gained popularity by making portraits of his fellow soldiers and commanding officers, including a portrait of General Duke William of Württemberg and portrait of Lieutenant Field Marshal Emanuel Salomon of Friedberg - Mírohorsky (this army officer also was a genre painter, it is possible, why later in USA Karl Witkowski became genre painter).

Laurent Thévenot

1989 (with Luc Boltanski) (eds.), Justesse et justice dans le travail, Paris, CEE - PUF.

Leo of Galicia

Leo I of Galicia, king of Galicia–Volhynia (1269–1301), also known as Lev Danylovich

Leon Sapieha

In 1858 after years of struggling to secure support in Vienna for his plans he was able to initiate the construction of the Carl Ludwig railway line connecting the railhead at Kraków with Lwow and Brody and linking Galicia with the rest of Europe.

Mariyka Pidhiryanka

After Austria-Hungary collapsed, Pidhiryanka remained in exile across the Carpathians from war-torn Galicia, where the West Ukrainian People's Republic was defeated by the Poles, who then fought off the Bolsheviks and annexed the territory.

MeteoGalicia

It was founded in 2000 following an agreement between the then Ministry of the Environment - now known as the Ministry of the Environment, Territory and Infrastructures - and the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Mirabelle plum

In Spain it grows in Galicia, in O Rosal, a valley in the south of the province of Pontevedra in which was introduced in the mid-twentieth century by Xosé Sánchez García and where it has acclimated to perfection.

Muño Peláez

He joined the court on its tours of Galicia in 1137 and 1141, and once more, probably shortly before his death, in 1142, when the court was in Burgos.

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

In contrast, the nationalists who emerged in Galicia following the First World War, much as in the rest of Europe, adopted the form of nationalism known as Integral nationalism.

Paderne

:*Paderne, A Coruña, a municipality in the province of A Coruña, Galicia

Pepe el Ferreiro

He participated as lecturer in various conferences about Ethnography, in Canarias, Galicia, Navarra, Asturias; and in the Swiss cities of Zurich and Basel and in Aargau for the Federation of Asturian Societies in Switzerland.

Rechiar

Despite his orthodox Christianity, Hydatius, the contemporary bishop and chronicler from Galicia who is the sole contemporary source for biographical details of Rechiar, established his reputation as that of a barbarian with little sense of Roman law, culture, or custom.

Ribadavia

All the economic life of the comarca of the Ribeiro has centered on, since the twelfth century, the vines first brought by the monks of Cluny who accompanied the first count of Galicia, Raymond of Burgundy.

Robert Sturmy

In 1445 he sponsored a voyage conveying 200 pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia and in 1447 his ship the Cog Anne took pilgrims to Jaffa in Palestine but was wrecked off Greece on the return voyage, with the loss of 37 lives.

Selectividad

#Galician, Catalan or Valencian and Basque are also common subjects in Galicia; Catalonia and Balearic Islands, Valencia; and the Basque Country, respectively.

Senabria

The Sierra de la Cabrera Baja, forms a natural boundary with León Province in the north, Sierra Segundera with Galicia in the west, and Sierra de la Culebra and Sierra de la Gamoneda with the Bragança District of Portugal in the south and southwest.

Solís Uprising

The Reino de Galicia—the Kingdom of Galicia, dating back to the Middle Ages——had been formally abolished thirteen years earlier under the 1833 territorial division of Spain, as were the other Iberian "kingdoms" that had fallen under the domination of the Kingdom of Castile and had been incorporated into a single Spanish Monarchy.

Spanish general election, 2004

This results in under-representation for the large urban circumscriptions of Madrid and Barcelona, and over-representation for the conservative provinces of Castile and Galicia.

The Lyricist Lounge Show

The lyrical sketches featured a variety of hip hop artists such as Q-Tip, Mos Def, Cee-lo, Common, Tash, Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Krayzie Bone, Slick Rick, MC Lyte, and a host of others.

The Very Best of Macy Gray

#"Do Something" 1 (Gray, Darryl Swann, Ruzumna, Dion Murdock, Patrick Brown, Raymon Murray, Rico Wade, Cameron Gipp, Robert Barnett, André Benjamin, Antwan Patton, Thomas Burton, Greg Mays, Daryl Barnes, George Clinton, Jr., Garry Shider, Bernard Worrell) – 4:57

The Widow of Galicia

"The Widow of Galicia" is a short story by Thomas Hood that was first published in Hood's collection, National Tales in 1837.

Trives

Sobrado, A Pobra de Trives (San Salvador), a parish in A Pobra de Trives municipality in Ourense in the Galicia region of north-west Spain

Vila Nova de Gaia

The origin of the name Cale (or Gale, since in Classical Latin there was not always a clear distinction between the letters "g" and "c") is likely Celtic, from the root "Gall-" with which Celts referred to themselves, similarly to Galicia, Gaul or Galway.

Vilanova International World Music Festival

This festival belongs to the most selected group of world music festivals in Spain: Etnosur (Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Andalucía), Getxo (Basque Country), La Mar de Músicas (Cartagena, Murcia), Ortigueira (Galicia), and Pirineos Sur (Aragón).

Villa Galicia

Cities, towns and places near Villa Galicia include Jose Marmol, Marmol, Turdera and Temperley.

Voto de Santiago

The Voto de Santiago was an offering rendered by the Christian kingdoms of Asturias, Galicia, León and Castille to Saint James and his cathedral at Santiago de Compostella in thanks for the saint's miraculous intervention, which they believed had enabled them to win the legendary battle of Clavijo against the Moors.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Ketterle serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), and participates in the Distinguished Lecture Series of CEE's flagship program for high school students, the Research Science Institute (RSI), which Ketterle's own son Jonas attended in 2003.

Zborov

Zboriv (Зборів, Zborów, Zborov), a city in Ternopil Oblast (Galicia), Ukraine


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