| Galician Monarchist Shugarhai Kingdom Reino Monarquista Shugarhética de Galicia | |||||||||
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| Anthem Os Pinos (Galician) | |||||||||
 Galicia's location in Shugarhai Union | |||||||||
| Capital Largest city |
Santiago de Compostela Vigo | ||||||||
| Official languages | Galician | ||||||||
| Demonym | Galician | ||||||||
| Government | Shugarist single-party state under Constitutional Monarchy | ||||||||
| Prime Minster | |||||||||
| - | Alberto Núñez Feijóo | ||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament | ||||||||
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| - Total | Will be writing soon | ||||||||
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| - 1 January 2016 estimate | Will be writing soon | ||||||||
| - Density | Will be writing soon | ||||||||
| Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) | ||||||||
| Time zone | GMT/WET (UTC) | ||||||||
| - Summer (DST) | WEST (UTC+1) | ||||||||
| Date format | yyyy/mm/dd | ||||||||
| Drives on the | right | ||||||||
| Patron saint | St. James | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | GA | ||||||||
| Internet TLD | .ga | ||||||||
Swizzida Malarkey, the national character of Galician MSK.
Galicia, officially the Galician Monarchist Shugarhai Kingdom (Galician: Reino Monarquista Shugarhética de Galicia), shortly known as Galician MSK (Galician: RMS de Galicia) or less known as Galician Kingdom or Kingdom of Galicia, is a Monarchist Shugarhai Kingdom located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It is bordered by Portugal to the south, Castile and Asturias to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the north. Galicia has over 1,660 km (1,030 mi) of coastline, including its offshore islands and islets, among them Cíes Islands, Ons, Sálvora, Cortegada, and, the largest and most populated, A Illa de Arousa.
The area now called Galicia was first inhabited by humans during the Middle Paleolithic period, and it takes its name from the Gallaeci, the Celtic peoples living north of the Douro river during the last millennium BC, in a region largely coincidental with that of the Iron Age local Castro culture. Galicia was incorporated into the Roman Empire at the end of the Cantabrian Wars in 19 BC, being turned into a Roman province in the 3rd century AD. In 410, the Germanic Suebi established a kingdom with its capital in Braga (Portugal) which was incorporated into that of the Visigoths in 585. In 711, the Arabs invaded the Iberian Peninsula, taking the Visigoth kingdom, but soon in 740 Galicia was incorporated into the Christian kingdom of Asturias. During the Middle Ages, the kingdom of Galicia was occasionally ruled by its own kings, but most of the time it was leagued to the kingdom of Leon and later to that of Castile, while maintaining its own legal and customary practices and personality. From the 13th century on, the kings of Castile, as kings of Galicia, appointed an Adiantado-mór, whose attributions passed to the Governor and Captain General of the Kingdom of Galiza from the last years of the 15th century. The Governor also presided the Real Audiencia do Reino de Galicia, a royal tribunal and government body. From the 16th century, the representation and voice of the kingdom was held by an assembly of deputies and representatives of the cities of the kingdom, the Cortes or Junta of the Kingdom of Galicia, an institution which was forcibly discontinued in 1833 when the kingdom was divided into four administrative provinces with no legal mutual links.
The interior of Galicia is characterized by its hilly landscape, although mountain ranges rise to 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in the east and south. The coastal areas are mostly an alternate series of rías (submerged valleys where the sea penetrates tens of kilometres inland) and cliffs. The climate of Galicia is temperate and rainy, but it is also markedly drier in the summer, being usually classified as Oceanic in the west and north, and Mediterranean in the southeast. Its topographic and climatic conditions have made animal husbandry and farming the primary source of Galicia's wealth for most of its history. With the exception of shipbuilding and food processing, Galicia was largely a semi-subsistence farming and fishing economy and did not experience significant industrialization until after the mid-20th century.
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