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Caixa Rural Galega, Sociedad Cooperativa de Crédito Limitada Gallega is a Galician cooperative bank founded in 1966 in Lugo, where it keeps its headquarters. It is owned by about 15.000 members (2016) [1] and is considered the only galician financial institution that is wholly locally owned [2] since all other banks and savings banks were sold ...
US$272.1 million (2012) [1] Total assets. US$ 12.9 billion (2012) [2] Number of employees. 5,591. Website. gfgsa .com. Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. is a financial services holding company based in Buenos Aires, [3] and its banking operations are the fifth largest in Argentina, as well as the largest among all domestically-owned private banks ...
Caixa de Aforros de Galicia, Vigo, Ourense e Pontevedra (trading as Novacaixagalicia) was the name of a short-lived Spanish savings bank based in Galicia. It was created following the forced merger of the two major savings banks in the region, Caixa Galicia and Caixanova. This new caixa for Galicia became the fourth-largest in Spain with ...
The Iberian Peninsula, where Galicia is located, has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, first by Neanderthals and then by modern humans. From about 4500 BC, it (like much of the north and west of the peninsula) was inhabited by a megalithic culture, which entered the Bronze Age about 1500 BC. These people would become the Gallaeci (a ...
Galicia ( / ɡəˈlɪʃ ( i) ə / gə-LISH (-ee)-ə; [3] Galician: Galicia (officially) [ɡaˈliθjɐ] or Galiza [ɡaˈliθɐ]; [a] [b] Spanish: Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. [4] Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, and ...
Eastern Galicia was the most diverse part of the region, and one of the most diverse areas in Europe at the time. The Galician Jews immigrated in the Middle Ages from Germany. German-speaking people were more commonly referred to by the region of Germany where they originated (such as Saxony or Swabia ).
Galicians. Galicians ( Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group [7] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people [8] and has its historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [9]
A Cañiza. / 42.21278°N 8.27444°W / 42.21278; -8.27444. A Cañiza is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra. A Cañiza is part of the comarca of A Paradanta. It has an area of 108.1 km² and a population approaching 5,200 inhabitants in 2018 distributed across 9 parishes. This category of village municipality ...