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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.
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]
American cultural icons, apple pie, baseball, and the American flag. All have European influence primarily from the British. As the largest component of the American population, the overall American culture deeply reflects the European-influenced culture that predates the United States of America as an independent state.
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American was the fourth most common ancestry reported in the Midwest (6.5%) and West (4.1%). All Southern states except for Delaware, Maryland, Florida, and Texas reported 10% or more American, but outside the South, only Missouri and Indiana did so.
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Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and Bukovina from contemporary western Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil Oblasts) and from south-eastern Poland (Subcarpathian and ...