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- Ordoño was the first to adopt the title "King of Galicia".
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Kings of Galicia. In 910, Alfonso III the Great was forced to abdicate in favor of his sons, Ordoño, Fruela and Garcia, who partitioned the kingdom amongst them. Ordoño was the first to adopt the title "King of Galicia".
Theodemar (or Ariamir), king of Galicia with the bishops Lucrecio, Andrew, and Martin. Codex Vigilanus (or Albeldensis), Escurial library. The origin of the kingdom lies in the 5th century, when the Suebi settled permanently in the former Roman province of Gallaecia.
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a state under the Habsburg monarchy from 1772 to 1918, was ruled by several governors (later referred to by the title of statthalter) from the September 1772 Partitions of Poland until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary upon the conclusion of World War I in 1918.
Roman Mstislavich 'the Great' of Novgorod, Volodymyr, Halych-Volynia, and Kyiv is defeated by Andrew II of Hungary, who claims the title king of 'Galicia and Lodomeria' (Halychyna and Volodymyr). The ruling princes between 1205 and 1213 are largely vassals of Hungary whilst fighting each other for supremacy.
After his death (1340), the Polish king Casimir III the Great annexed Galicia to his lands (1349). Under Polish rule Galicia was settled by Polish gentry, who became the dominant social class , and Galician boyars soon were compelled to accept the Polish language as well as Polish legal and social institutions and Roman Catholicism .
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By the 6th century the kingdom of the Suebi was already known as the Kingdom of Galicia, Gregory of Tours being the first chronicler to use this denomination. Oops something went wrong:
In the 8th century Galicia became a part of the newly founded Christian kingdoms of the northwest of the peninsula, Asturias and León. Sometimes it got independence under its own kings. [1] Compostela became capital of Galicia in the 11th century. The independence of Portugal (1128) made its southern boundary.
