Galicia is a nation placed in the Iberian Peninsula, just above Portugal. We don’t know who were the first inhabitants of the country, but we know that greeks called them “Kallaikoi”. We think they were celts, but we have no security. After the Roman Empire, the suebi conquered the roman province of Gallaecia, and they established the first christian independent kingdom of Europe. On the 7th century they were conquered by the visigodes, but a few years after muslims conquered the iberian peninsula. In the north of Gallaecia, the Kingdom of Galicia was founded. One century later it changed his name for Kingdom of Galicia and Leon. Before that the County of Portugal got independenced.
The Kingdom of Galicia and Leon was conquered by the Kingdom of Castille, and, with the Catholic Kings, it was incorporated to the Crown of Castille and Aragon. However, the Kingdom of Galicia kept its foral rigths and the status of Kingdom until the kingdom of Fernando VII, when it was divided into the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra, but some territories were given to the provinces of Oviedo, Leon and Zamora.
