Kingdom of Galicia in historiography
The medieval Galician Kingdom, first known as the Suebian Kingdom of Gallaecia, started with the Germanic Suebi tribe in the 5th century.[1][2] This kingdom once included parts of today's Asturias, León and Portugal. It had Christian traditions even during Islamic rule in nearby areas.
As history was recorded over the centuries, some modern historians altered the narrative around the medieval Kingdom of Galicia. Instead of using the varied names found in historical documents —such as "Gallaecia Regnum", "Gallitia", "Gallizia", "Galizuland", "ard Galika", "Yilliqiyya", "Jalikia", etc.[3][4][5][6][7] — they sometimes replaced these with "Kingdom of Asturias" or "Kingdom of León".[8][9][10][11][12][13]
For some Galician scholars, this change was part of an effort to create a continuous historical line leading to the later Kingdom of Castile and eventually to a unified Spain.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Those scholars have criticized this view because it doesn't match the historical facts. Sometimes, even the historians who hold this view have admitted this issue.[23][24][25][26]
Gallery
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Bishoprics of the Kingdom of Galicia. 6th century: Braga, Porto, Lamego, Coimbra, Dumio, Lugo, Ourense, Astorga, Iria, Britonia, Tui, Idaña, Viseu.[27]
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Bishoprics of the Kingdom of Galicia. 9th century: Braga (metropolis), Dumio, Porto, Tui, Ourense, Iria, Lugo, Britonia, and Astorga.[28]
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Iberian Peninsula on Pirrus de Noha's world map. It divides the peninsula between Galicia, Portugal, Spain and Granada.
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The Historia compostellana, a book about the life of Didacus Gelmiri and the political events of his time, never mentions the existence of a "kingdom of Leon".
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Archive of the Kingdom of Galicia, in Coruña.
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Codex Calixtinus. Calls Afonso VII "emperor of Spain and Galicia",[32] no reference to the Kingdom of León.[33]
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Tomb of Afonso VIII (as he called himself) in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. Spanish historiography assigns him the numeral "IX", reserving "VIII" for the 1st king of Castile.[34][35]
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Menéndez Pidal on the set of El cid. Hispanist Colin Smith showed Pidal manipulated the Cantar de Mio Cid manuscript, analyzing it with X-rays.[39][40][13]
See also
[change | change source]Other articles
[change | change source]External links
[change | change source]- The kingdom of Galicia on medieval maps. YouTube
- Historical Forgeries: The Kingdom of Asturias Archived 2021-08-27 at the Wayback Machine. Historical Galicia Archived 2021-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
- The History of the stories of the Kingdom of Galicia in the histories of Galicia from the 16th century to the present.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ The first mention of it was in the 6th century, when Gregory of Tours called the country of the Germanic Suebi "Gallaciensim regnum".
- ↑ Historia Francorum. Vol. VI. p. 43.
- ↑ A formación do reino de Galiza (711-910) (in Galician). Toxos Outos. p. 15.
- ↑ Galicia y los gallegos en las fuentes árabes medievales (in Spanish). CSIC. pp. 65–66.
- ↑ Dubert (ed.). Historia das historias de Galicia (in Galician). Xerais. pp. 105–106.
- ↑ A memoria da nación. O reino da Gallaecia (in Galician). Xerais. p. 209.
- ↑ El báculo y la ballesta. Diego Gelmírez (c.1065-1140) (in Spanish). Marcial Pons. p. 82.
- ↑ Murado, Miguel-Anxo (2013-10-03). Outra idea de Galicia (in Galician). DEBATE. ISBN 978-84-9992-367-3.
- ↑ Castilla y León, consideraciones sobre su historia. Los nombres, los territorios y el proceso histórico (in Spanish). University of Leon. p. 17.
- ↑ Orígenes del Reino de León y de sus instituciones políticas (in Spanish). p. 125.
- ↑ "Breve historia de Galiza (Francisco Carballo)" (PDF).
- ↑ La construcción de la realeza astur: poder, territorio y comunicación en la alta edad media (in Spanish). Universidad de Cantabria. p. 208. ISBN 9788481028423.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 La creación del poema de mio cid. Crítica. ISBN 9788474232646.
- ↑ "Xosé Antonio López Teixeira: "A liña oficial de investigación da USC fai historia de España desde Galicia"" (in Galician). 2014-10-27.
- ↑ Historia de Galicia (in Spanish). Vol. IV. p. 20.
- ↑ A memoria da nación: O reino de Gallaecia (in Galician). Xerais. p. 144.
- ↑ Historia Xeral de Galicia (in Galician). A Nosa Terra. pp. 138–139.
- ↑ O reino de Galiza (in Galician). A Nosa Terra. p. 6.
- ↑ Galicia en sete estralos. Instantáneas do país borroso. Luzes. pp. 23–28, en 27. ISBN 978-84-947545-5-5.
- ↑ O Reino medieval de Galicia. Crónica dunha desmemoria. Xerais. p. 10.
- ↑ "Francisco Rodríguez: "Os historiadores españois ocultan a importancia do Reino de Galiza"". 15 de marzo de 2022.
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(help) - ↑ "Relatorios" (in Galician).
- ↑ La invención del pasado. Debate. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-84-8306-853-3.
- ↑ "José Manuel Barbosa: "Aceitamos a narrativa imposta pela inércia historiográfica oficial"". 2021-02-08.
- ↑ "Carlos Baliñas: "É hora de deixar tranquilos os reis de Galicia e democratizar a historia social"". 2016-01-18.
- ↑ "La honestidad intelectual es lo que cuenta – Rebelion" (in Spanish).
- ↑ Monumentos antiguos de la iglesia compostelana. p. 49.
- ↑ Chonicon Albeldense.
- ↑ "ONP: galizuland sb. n. place-name".
- ↑ "ONP: spánland sb. n. place-name".
- ↑ Outra idea de Galicia. Debate. p. 59.
- ↑ Historia de la Santa a.m. iglesia de Santiago de Compostela. Vol. 4. p. 75.
- ↑ Galicia, todo un reino (in Spanish). University of Santiago de Compostela. p. 740.
- ↑ A memoria da nación. O reino de Gallaecia (in Galician). Xerais. p. 233. ISBN 84-8302-656-2.
- ↑ O Reino Medieval de Galicia (in Galician). A Nosa Terra. p. 128. ISBN 978-84-8341-293-0.
- ↑ Pressutti (ed.). Regesta Honorii Papae III. Georg Olms Verlag. p. 167.
- ↑ Pressutti (ed.). Regesta Honorii Papae III. Georg Olms Verlag. p. 167.
- ↑ Outra idea de Galicia. Debate. p. 60.
- ↑ La invención del pasado. Debate. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-84-8306-853-3.
- ↑ "La honestidad intelectual es lo que cuenta – Rebelion" (in Spanish).