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List of Galician monarchs
Galicia
is an
autonomous community
and
historical nationality
in modern-day northwestern Spain on the
Iberian Peninsula
, which was and continues to be a major part of the Roman province known as
Gallaecia
prior to 409. It consists of the provinces of
A Coruña
,
Lugo
,
Ourense
and
Pontevedra
. It is bounded on the north by the
Cantabrian Sea
, to the south by Portugal, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by principality of
Asturias
and the community of
Castile and León
. The archipelago of the
Cíes Islands
, the Ons archipelago, the
Sálvora archipelago
and other island such as
Cortegada
,
Arousa
, the Sisargas Islands and the Malveiras Islands are also part of Galicia.
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