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Old 01-06-2020, 08:49 AM  
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You do not need a Pole od Spaniard to solve your question, just a bit of knowledge of history:

Both Galicias are bastardized English term for:

1) Old Latin description of a Celtic tribe Gallaecii living in that part of Spain during the Roman expansion in the last century BC.

2) Also an old Latin term of a tribe which lived there under Magyars called Kaliz which then become " slavonized" to Halicz or Galicz and other similar names. The historians are not 100 % in agreement on the history of this section of Poland/Ukraine and how the name originated. Some suggest old Tracian tribe called Galeis who moved in the late Iron Age.

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