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"Rzeź galicyjska" by Jan Lewicki (1795–1871) Theatre of the Galician peasant war of 1846 (red) in relation to the Kraków Uprising (blue). The Galician Peasant Uprising of 1846, also known as the Galician Rabacja, [1] Galician Slaughter, [2] or the Szela uprising [3] (German: Galizischer Bauernaufstand; Polish: Rzeź galicyjska or Rabacja galicyjska), was a two-month uprising of ...
The Iberian Peninsula, where Galicia is located, has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, first by Neanderthals and then by modern humans. From about 4500 BC, it (like much of the north and west of the peninsula) was inhabited by a megalithic culture, which entered the Bronze Age about 1500 BC.
Galicia, also known by its variant name Galizia [2] (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə / gə-LISH-(ee-)ə; [3] Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized: Galitsye; see below), is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of ...
The second son Ordoño reigned Galicia since 910 and Kingdom of León after Garcia's death. The youngest son Fruela received Asturias; 913 - An expedition commanded by Ordoño II, then king of Galicia, into Muslim territory, rides Évora. 914 Ordoño II of Galicia, becomes King of Kingdom of León, after the death of his brother García I of León.
Stater coin, of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) from Trepcza/ n. Sanok. The region has a turbulent history. In Roman times the region was populated by various tribes of Celto-Germanic admixture, including Celtic-based tribes – like the Galice or "Gaulics" and Bolihinii or "Volhynians" – the Lugians and Cotini of Celtic, Vandals and Goths of Germanic origins (the Przeworsk and Púchov ...
The fourth episode of ‘Joan’ sees the protagonist sent to jail, but did Joan actually go to prison during her time as a diamond thief?
On this day, July 22, 1992, President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the resort-like prison where he had ...
In 2011, while in prison in Dueñas, the Audiencia Nacional granted him "grade 3" prisoner status, [14] meaning he could be held in an open prison, [15] and was freed on 17 July 2012. [16] He returned to prison on 6 February 2014 to serve a sentence of 4 years and 7 months which had been imposed upon him in 2012 for money laundering. [ 17 ]