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Galicia

/ɡaˈliθja/

proper noun/ɡaˈliθja/

Galicia (a former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain); a surname

El IPC cierra el año en negativo en Galicia por primera vez desde 2015The consumption price index meets the end of the year in the negative in Galicia for the first time since 2015.

Borrowed from Portuguese or Galician Galicia, from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a tribe in the region”). According to Menéndez Pidal, this term replaced Old Spanish Gallizia.