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Little is known about the Suebi who crossed the Rhine on the night of 31 December 406 AD and entered the Roman Empire. It is speculated that these Suevi are the same group as the Quadi, who are mentioned in early writings as living north of the middle Danube, in what is now lower Austria and western Slovakia, [3] [4] and who played an important part in the Germanic Wars of the 2nd century ...
Galicia was then taken over by the Visigothic Kingdom when the Suebian kingdom fell apart. Galicia came under the control of the Moors after they defeated the Visigoths in 717 but Moorish rule was little more than a short lived military occupation, although an indirect Moorish musical influence arrived later, through Christian troubadours ...
The Chronicle of Hydatius is the main source for the history of the Suebi in Galicia and Portugal up to 468. Identity and Interaction: the Suevi and the Hispano-Romans, University of Virginia, 2007; Medieval Galician anthroponomy; Minutes of the Councils of Braga and Toledo, in the Collectio Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis
According to "Galicia-The Spanish Cousins", an article on Roots World, [1] muiñeira is the Galician "equivalent" of a jig, which is consistent with the time signature of 6 8 . The word "muiñeira" (the same pronunciation in Portuguese, but spelled "moinheira") means literally both millstone and a mill landlady (or the miller's wife, if a man).
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
This is a list of Galician words which have Germanic origin. Many of these words entered the language during the late antiquity, either as words introduced into Vulgar Latin elsewhere, or as words brought along by the Suebi who settled in Galicia in the 5th century, or by the Visigoths who annexed the Suebic Kingdom in 585.
Inside Trump’s hectic day-to-day schedule – with prez revealing the phrase that keeps going through his mind when he first wakes up
Pages in category "Music of Galicia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A Raíña Lupa; G.