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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).
The Galician diaspora is the ethnically Galician population outside of Galicia. The concept does not usually include the ethnic Galicians who live as natives in Spain or the adjacent country of Portugal. Massive emigration of the Galician people occurred during the last three decades of the 19th century until well into the mid-20th century.
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Arms of the Kingdom of Galicia, Pedro de Teixeira, 17th century. The name of Galicia, an autonomous community of Spain and former kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, derives from the Latin toponym Callaecia, later Gallaecia, related to the name of an ancient tribe that resided north of the Douro river, the Gallaeci or Callaeci in Latin, or Kallaikói (καλλαικoι) in Greek.
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