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Galician laborers working for the Edison Portland Cement Company in New Village, New Jersey, in 1910. [1] Sierra Córdoba in Vigo, departing for America with emigrants.. The Galician diaspora is the ethnically Galician population outside of Galicia.
Galician Americans (Galician: galegos americanos) are Americans of Galician descent.. The Galicians (Galician: Galegos; Spanish: Gallegos) are a nationality, cultural and ethnolinguistic group whose historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula (Europe).
Galicians (Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group [7] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people [8] and have their historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [9]
Galicia is located in Atlantic Europe. It is bordered by Portugal to the south, the Spanish autonomous communities of Castile and León and Asturias to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Cantabrian Sea to the north. It had a population of 2,701,743 in 2018 [6] and a total area of 29,574 km 2 (11,419 sq mi).
Vasco Núñez de Balboa, (1475–1519) (Galician noble from Balboa), explorer and conquistador, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean; Luís Vaz de Torres (1565–1607), navigator and explorer, first European who saw Australia; Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1542–1595), navigator and explorer, discoverer of Marquesas Islands and Salomon Islands
Examples of Clovis and other Paleoindian point forms, markers of archaeological cultures in North America. The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas is the claim that the earliest human migration to the Americas began from Europe during the Solutrean Period, with Europeans traveling along pack ice in the Atlantic Ocean.
That recognition gave it the same stature as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans. Elephant seals rest at the coast of Possession Island on December 27, 2022, part of the Crozet Islands ...
Archaeologically, the Gallaeci evolved from the local Atlantic Bronze Age culture (1300–700 BC). During the Iron Age they received additional influences, including from Southern Iberian and Celtiberian cultures, and from central-western Europe (Hallstatt and, to a lesser extent, La Tène culture), and from the Mediterranean (Phoenicians and Carthaginians).