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Galicia: tags: [geography]

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1. The northwestern most community in Spain
2. A historic region, now mostly within the Ukranian borders

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"[...] What does Madrid care about Galicia? We are a poor province."

Ernest Hemingway. The Capital of the World

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in connection with the stories of the Grand Duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in Galicia* he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of a movement.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

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War and Peace vocabulary

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Galicia

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