NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nueva Galicia

Nueva Galicia ("New Galicia") was a region of New Spain. Is was named after Galicia in Spain. Nueva Galicia became in the late 18th century Intendencia of Guadalajara.

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Nueva Galicia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (167 words)
	In 1548 it was given its own audiencia at Guadalajara.
	Nominally subject to the viceroy of New Spain, it was essentially a separate administration controlled from Spain, and it came to be known after the creation (1563) of a presidential office of its own as the presidency of Nueva Galicia.
	Its independent character, however, declined as in the colonial era authority was more and more centralized in Mexico City.

Galicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (160 words)
	Galicia (Iberian peninsula), one of Spain's autonomous communities.
	Gallaecia, a Roman province in the Iberian peninsula corresponding to the combination of the modern Galicia (Iberian peninsula) and northern Portugal.
	Kingdom of Galicia, a medieval kingdom roughly corresponding to the Roman province of Gallaecia.

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