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Map of Galicia irredenta . In grey is Galicia proper and in yellow are the places in Spain where Galician is spoken outside of it. Galizaestremeira.png
Map of Galicia irredenta. In grey is Galicia proper and in yellow are the places in Spain where Galician is spoken outside of it.

Galicia irredenta [1] ("Unredeemed Galicia") or Galicia estremeira [2] ("Outer" or "External Galicia"), also spelled as Galiza irredenta [3] and Galiza estremeira [4] and also known as Faixa Leste [5] or Franxa Leste [6] ("Eastern Strip"), is a term used for all Galician-speaking territories located outside of Galicia. These are all located in Spain, in either Asturias or Castile and León. [7] [8] These territories are sometimes divided into three subregions: El Bierzo (O Bierzo in Galician), Eo-Navia (Eo-Navia in Galician) and As Portelas (or Upper Sanabria, As Portelas or Alta Seabra in Galician). [9]

There have been several attempts from these territories to join Galicia. An example is Porto de Sanabria, a small village where, in 2018, a vote was organized to join to the region due to the lack of response from the government of Castile and León to requests from locals to fix a road. 202 people voted in favor, 19 against and 6 did a blank vote. However, this vote did not intend any official change and was only made to know the opinion of the inhabitants. [10]

Another example was that of El Bierzo, a comarca where more people prefer to join Galicia than to stay in Castile and León. There are people who have proposed to turn it into a new province of Spain and join it to Galicia. [11] This initiative became more serious when a request was sent in 2021 to the Xunta de Galicia asking it to recognize El Bierzo as a new province of Galicia. [12] This proposal was rejected by the Spanish prominent parties PP and PSOE. [13]

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  2. ↑ Méndez Ferrín, Xosé Luís (22 April 2017). "Da freguesía administrativa en Galicia" . Faro de Vigo (in Galician).
  3. ↑ "El BNG desiste de crear agrupaciones nacionalistas en el Occidente de Asturias". El Progreso de Lugo (in Spanish). 6 February 2012.
  4. ↑ Miragaia Doldán, Manuel (18 July 2016). "Por um galeguismo do século XXI: Assembleia Nacional Galega (ANG)". Galicia Confidencial.
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  6. ↑ Gómez Bautista, Alberto (2004). "Algunhas notas sobre a lingua galega da Franxa Leste". Madrygal. Revista de Estudios Gallegos (in Galician). 7: 45–48.
  7. ↑ Lugris, Igor (20 October 2006). "A Galiza irredenta tambén existe!". Galicia Hoxe (in Galician). Archived from the original on 2 September 2007.
  8. ↑ Baelo Álvarez, Manuel (15 December 2005). "La Galicia irredenta en el Bierzo". Diario de León (in Spanish).
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Para cando un convenio que potencie o galego na histórica rexión galegofalante do Bierzo?". Galicia Confidencial (in Galician). 2 February 2018.
  10. ↑ "Porto, el pueblo zamorano que votó en 'referéndum' anexionarse a Galicia". ABC (in Spanish). 28 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "A comarca do Bierzo aposta por se constituír como provincia, con preferencia por facelo uníndose a Galiza". Nós Diario (in Galician). 25 May 2020.
  12. ↑ "A reivindicación dun Bierzo integrado na Galiza chega ao Parlamento galego". Nós Diario (in Galician). 28 January 2021.
  13. ↑ Cabo, Natalia (14 April 2021). "PP y PSOE tumban la propuesta del BNG para reconocer El Bierzo como provincia e incorporarla a Galicia". El Plural (in Spanish).
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