the last name galicia comes from latin toponym callaecia.
where does the last name galicia come from?
latin toponym callaecia
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in 666 the southern extreme of the province, beyond the douro, was formally reincorporated into lusitania, but the destruction of the visigothic kingdom in 711 by the arabs, and the early reconquest of coimbra by galician forces in 866 led to the name "gallicia" being applied not just to the westernmost areas north of the douro, but also to much of the north-west of the iberian peninsula, from the bay of biscay to coimbra, and from the atlantic ocean in the west to the eo, navia and cea rivers in the east, including the city of león. so, from that time and to the twelfth century the name galicia maintained some kind of duality, which is exactly symbolised by the arab geographers and historians, who gave the name "ŷillīquiya" (adaptation of gallaecia) to the christian kingdom of the northwest and to the lands north and west of the sistema central mountains, now known as kingdom of asturias and kingdom of león, whilst the term "galīsiya" (adaptation of galicia) was more usually reserved for galicia and portugal, although both terms were used interchangeably. on the other hand, "gallaecia" or an evolved form of it was a common name used by other europeans to refer in general to the christians of the northwest of hispania and to their kingdom. but from the 11th-12th century the independence of portugal in the south, and the prominence of the city of león in the east as capital of the christians, led to the restriction of the name "galicia" to roughly its actual territorial boundaries.
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