Kingdom of Galicia

Kingdom of Galicia
Reino de Galicia or Galiza (Galician) Reino de Galicia (Spanish) Reino da Galiza (Portuguese) Galliciense Regnum (Latin)
409–1833
Flag Coat of arms
Motto Hoc hic misterium fidei firmiter profitemur "Here is the mystery of faith that we strongly profess"
Anthem Antiga Marcha do Reino de Galicia
The location of the Kingdom of Galicia in the 11th century CE, in red
Capital		Santiago de Compostela1
Languages		Latin Vulgar Latin Galician-Portuguese Astur-Leonese Castilian A few speakers of Brittonic, Visigothic, Vandalic and Suebic
Government		Monarchy
Monarch
•	409–438	Hermeric (first)
•	1813–1833	Ferdinand VII (last)
Legislature		Junta
History
•	Founded by Hermeric	409
•	Dissolved	1833
Preceded by Succeeded by Western Roman Empire Spain County of Portugal
1 Previously Lugo and Braga. From the 16th century the capitality was disputed.

The Kingdom of Galicia (Galician: Reino de Galicia, or Galiza; Spanish: Reino de Galicia; Portuguese: Reino da Galiza; Latin: Galliciense Regnum) was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Founded by Suebic king Hermeric in 409, the Galician capital was established in Braga, being the first kingdom which adopted Catholicism officially and minted its own currency (year 449). It was part of the Kingdom of the Spanish Visigothic monarchs from 585 to 711. In the 8th century Galicia became a part of the newly founded Christian kingdoms of the Northwest of the peninsula, Asturias and León, while occasionally achieving independence under the authority of its own kings.Compostela became capital of Galicia in the 11th century, while the independence of Portugal (1128) determined its southern boundary. The accession of Castilian King Ferdinand III to the Leonese kingdom in 1230 brought Galicia under the control of the Crown of Castile, the kingdom of Galicia becoming a political division within the larger realm.

Galicia resisted central control, supporting a series of alternative claimants, including John of León, Galicia and Seville (1296), Ferdinand I of Portugal (1369) and John of Gaunt (1386), and was not brought firmly into submission until the Catholic Monarchs imposed the Santa Hermandad in Galicia. The kingdom of Galicia was then administered within the Crown of Castile (1490–1715) and later the Crown of Spain (1715–1833) by an Audiencia Real directed by a Governor which hold also the office of Captain General and President. The representative assembly of the Kingdom was then the Junta or Cortes of the Kingdom of Galicia, which briefly declared itself sovereign when Galicia alone remained free of Napoleonic occupation (1808–1809). The kingdom and its Junta were dissolved by Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Regent of Spain, in 1834.