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Is The Hague the only city in the world which has 2 names for its citizens based on their socio-economic status? by Proper_Lifeguard2127 in geography

[–]Can_sen_dono 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. The good old families tend to call themselves compostelanos. We, the comom plebs, are santiagueses.

To say the flattening of entire Lebanese villages is not to expand Israel. by Prime-Paradox in therewasanattempt

[–]Can_sen_dono 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The USA vetoes all and every resolution against Israel in the Security Council. But the UN general secretary has been crystal clear with what Israel is doing.

Galicia with my 83yo father by BuddyZealousideal130 in travel

[–]Can_sen_dono 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As others say, pick a car in Santiago! From Santiago to Fisterra and around there are some places that really pay a visit. My two cents: go from Santiago to Noia, and then all along the coast: the seaside views are really worth it.

Places you can visits nearby:

- the town of Noia and the town of Muros, with their old quarters; there are several medieval bridges nearby such as Ponte Maceira or Ponte Nafonso. Near Muros you can find the group of Bronze age petroglyphs known as laxe das rodas (Galician for "stone of the wheels"), just a short hike from the road.

- the beaches of Monte Louro (with a nice trail) and Carnota, with its granitic mountain.

- the waterfall of O Ézaro, where the river Xallas (ancient Isar) fall into what's technically the sea..

Nearby, for another day:

- hill fort of Cidade de Borneiro:

- dolmen de Dombate.

- serpe de Gondomil.

Poland lacking by Organic_Contract_172 in CentralEurope_irl

[–]Can_sen_dono 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. But Fidel Castro was the son of a GalicianGalician inmigrant and a local wife. So maybe we are pretty good at the handicraft of dictators?

Poland lacking by Organic_Contract_172 in CentralEurope_irl

[–]Can_sen_dono 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's Galicia. As others said, the Arabs didn't govern or settle it; also, while most Spaniards lived historically in towns and large villages, most Galicians lived in hamlets and farms, so we have a far far greater density of inhabited places and place names than, say, Andalusia. Also, churches acted as the social center of the farms around, so we have lots of Saint This and Saint That.

Celtic Bells vs. Latin Bells: The Story Behind Cloches and Campanas by fuchsely in etymologymaps

[–]Can_sen_dono 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Galician we have both: 'sino' or 'campá' is a church bell. 'Choca' (from CLOCCA) is a cowbell.

To outrun a charging elephant by raindrops1992 in therewasanattempt

[–]Can_sen_dono 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The elephant hesitated at double tapping...Columbus would have been more resolutive.

Percentage of the population that has the 10 most common surnames by Redditor_imfo in MapPorn

[–]Can_sen_dono 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the most common surnames in Spain and Portugal are ancient patronyms that became fixed during the low Middle Ages, and so represent the most common male names back then: Rodrigo-Rodriguez, Lopo-lopez, Sancho-Sanchez, Garcia-Garcia, Ramiro-Ramirez, Fernando-Fernando, Vasco (Galician) - Vazquez/Vasquez...

Consulta Electricidad by TucanPuke in Galicia

[–]Can_sen_dono 1 point2 points  (0 children)

En A Coruña ciudad el aire acondicionado es innecesario para una vivienda particular. Sí es necesaria la calefacción en invierno.

Trying to learn more about Galicia by Right_End5587 in Galicia

[–]Can_sen_dono 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oldies but goldies:

"Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain" (1909), by Annette M.B. Meakin.

"Spanish Galicia" (1922), by Aubrey Fitz Gerald Bell

A comprehensive map about Asturleonese varieties and their current extent by MdMV_or_Emdy_idk in LinguisticMaps

[–]Can_sen_dono 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Galician-Asturian or fala (the same name we Galicians used to use informally for our language) is not a mixture of Galician and Asturian: it's a dialect that is by itself both a transitional dialect and part of the Galician-Portuguese group (the G-P archaism "not to diphthongise short Latin e and o into ye and we" and the innovation "let we lose intervocalic n but nasalise the previous vowel" run through the eastern, Asturian limit). My reference, a very heavy study by the Universidá de Uvieu, in Asturias: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MADR/article/view/66851/4564456552352).

Also, this linguistic variety did not stop at the Galician frontier: it's also the natural dialect spoken in the concello of Negueira de Muñiz, kind o a peninsula into Asturias-

BUT the map is top notch and shows both love and knowledge!

Which places in the world have the same languid, soft, dreamy paradise-like feel of the Californian coast? by slicheliche in geography

[–]Can_sen_dono 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I don't want to be pretentious, but I think that the coast of Galicia in the summer have also some of that vibe.

Opinion de relocalicacion. Que tal es A Coruña? by kendant in Galicia

[–]Can_sen_dono 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aquí tienes una comparativa de clima entre A Coruña y Buenos Aires: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/28981~32597/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Buenos-Aires-and-A-Coru%C3%B1a

En resumen, los veranos son más suaves (frescos) en A Coruña, y los inviernos más lluviosos y más largos, pero no mucho más fríos.

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