Kings of Galicia

Kings Of Galicia

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 La Coruña, Lugo, Orense and Pontevedra. It is bounded on the north by the Cantabrian Seaa, 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. Galicia belongs to the archipelago of the Cíes Islands, the Ons archipelago, the Sálvora archipelago and other island such as Cortegada, Arosa, the Sisargas or the Malveiras.

Galicia has about 2,795,422 inhabitants which mainly combines the coastal strip between Ferrol and La Coruña in the northwest and between Villagarcía and Vigo in the southwest.

The medieval and modern Kingdom of Galicia derived of the kingdom of the Suebi, founded by king Hermeric in 409. By the 6th century the kingdom of the Suebi was already known as Kingdom of Galicia, Gregory of Tours being the first chronicler to use this denomination.