The Seminar of Galician Studies (Galician : Seminario de Estudos Galegos, SEG) was an institution established in 1923 with the purpose of studying and promoting the Galician cultural heritage.
The Seminar of Galician Studies (Galician : Seminario de Estudos Galegos, SEG) was an institution established in 1923 with the purpose of studying and promoting the Galician cultural heritage.
Galician–Portuguese, also known as Old Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician or Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese when referring to the history of each modern language, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula. Alternatively, it can be considered a historical period of the Galician, Fala, and Portuguese languages.
Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao, commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identity and culture, and was one of the main names behind the cultural movement Xeración Nós. He was also one of the founders and president of the Galicianist Party and had a great influence on the renovating group of Galician art known as Os renovadores. Castelao is considered to be the most important figure in Galician culture of the 20th century.
Ricardo Carballo Calero, self-styled as Ricardo Carvalho Calero from 1981 onward, was a Spanish philologist, academic and writer. He was the first Professor of Galician Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was a member of the Royal Galician Academy, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and also an honorary member of the Galician Language Association. He was one of the main theorists of contemporary Galician reintegrationism and his works on this field are considered a primary reference. Many consider Carballo Calero as one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century Galician intelligentsia.
A Nosa Terra was a Galician newspaper in Galician language, first founded in 1907 in A Coruña, Spain. It has been published in different periods.
Reintegrationism, or Lusism, is a linguistic movement in Galicia that advocates for the recognition of Galician and varieties of the Portuguese language as a single language. Reintegrationists argue that the different dialects of Galician and Portuguese should be classified as part of the Galician-Portuguese language, rather than two languages within a common branch. The largest reintegrationist association is the Galician Language Association (AGAL).
Xaquín Lorenzo Fernández, Xocas, was a Spanish educator. He was born and died in Ourense, where he also studied. His teacher was Ramón Otero Pedrayo. He studied philosophy and letters in Santiago de Compostela and Zaragoza.
The Associaçom Galega da Língua is a reintegracionist group created in 1981 that aims for the full normalization of the Galician language, which it considers to be a branch of the Galician-Portuguese language. Contrary to the norms of the RAG, its Comissom Lingüística published its own norms in 1983 titled Estudo crítico das normas ortográficas e morfolóxicas do idioma galego. Today, these norms, revised and expanded, are condensed in the work Ortografia Galega Moderna confluente com o Português no mundo. AGAL seeks to incorporate Galician into the Galician-Luso-Brazilian linguistic sphere. It considers that Galician is the name that Portuguese has in Galicia and accepts that the international name is Portuguese.
The Statute of Autonomy of Galicia of 1936 was a statute of autonomy for Galicia. It was voted in referendum and presented to the Spanish Parliament. Yet, it could never be implemented because of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and subsequent Francoist Spain (1939–1977). The 1936 statute was drafted by the Partido Galeguista, and it is the historical precedent of the current Statute of Autonomy of Galicia of 1981.
Galician, also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Spanish. The language is also spoken in some border zones of the neighbouring Spanish regions of Asturias and Castile and León, as well as by Galician migrant communities in the rest of Spain, in Latin America including Puerto Rico, the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe.
The Instituto Galego de Estudos Célticos (IGEC) is a Galician non-profit learned society established in 2009. The Institute's main goal is to promote multidisciplinary research in the field of Celtic studies in Galicia, northern Portugal and throughout Atlantic Europe, with a special emphasis on the so-called Celtic Countries and peoples of Celtic origin. The IGEC also promotes general knowledge of history, culture and society of Galicia, as well as academic and scientific exchange. Moreover, the Institute aims at recovering and preserving - on an educated basis - elements of Celtic culture present and visible in contemporary Galician society.
Isaac Díaz Pardo was a Galician intellectual strongly attached to both Sargadelos and Cerámica do Castro.
Cinematography in Galicia refers to films made in Galicia or by Galicia-related filmmakers. Galician cinema consists of films in Galician language, although the majority of those productions is also made in Spanish. To a lesser extent, some Galician films include Portuguese-Galician coproductions, such as The Rye Horn, some using Portuguese-language.
The Galician Workers Union, was a Galician nationalist and anticapitalist union in Galiza.
Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas is a Galician farmers' and breeders' union centered on family farms and small peasants.
Xosé Fernando Filgueira Valverde, or sometimes José Filgueira Valverde, was a Spanish writer, intellectual, researcher, scholar and critic in Galician language and Spanish. He was known as "O vello profesor" to Galician intellectuals.
Lois Tobío Fernández was a Galician diplomat, writer, translator and philologist.
Antón Losada Diéguez was a writer, Galician politician, member of the Irmandades da Fala of Ourense, promoter of the magazine Nós and correspondent of the Royal Galician Academy. He was author of half a dozen books of poetry, seven books, two political writings, the incomplete work A domeadora and the speech Ouservacións encol da prosa galega. He became a member in the Seminar of Galician Studies. He was honoured on the Day of the Galician Letters of 1985.
Florentino López Alonso-Cuevillas was a Spanish anthropologist and prehistorian, although in the course of his life he also became involved in writing, primarily essays and fiction. Like several other Galician intellectuals of his generation, he was a member of Xeración Nós, of the Seminar of Galician Studies and the Irmandades da Fala, combining the cultural and linguistic activities he carried out in those institutions with a discrete participation in pro-Galician politics. However, his social and political activities were profoundly disrupted by the victory of nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, although in the 1940s he returned to his commitment to the spread of Galician culture as a full member of the Royal Galician Academy, and of the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento.
Antonio Fraguas Fraguas was Galicianist historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, and geographer. In 1923, he cofounded the Sociedade da Lingua, whose main goals were the defense of the Galician language and the creation of a dictionary. He was a member of Irmandades da Fala and Seminario de Estudos Galegos and was high school professor after the Spanish Civil War broke out. He was part of the Father Sarmiento Institute for Galician Studies and the Royal Galician Academy, and was director and president of the Museum of the Galician People, member of the Council of Galician Culture, and a chronicler of Galicia. He spent his life studying Galician culture and its territory from different perspectives, with a special focus and mastery on anthropology.
Fermín Bouza-Brey was a Spanish writer, ethnographer and historian who mainly wrote on the Galician language.
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