Nueva Galicia

New Galicia
Nueva Galicia
Nuevo Reino de Galicia (in Spanish)
New Kingdom of Galicia
Official seal of New Galicia
Country Spain
Viceroyalty New Spain
Royal AudienceMexico City
Compostela (1548–1560)
Guadalajara
CapitalGuadalajara
Establishedc. 1531
Dissolved1824

Nuevo Reino de Galicia (New Kingdom of Galicia; Galician: Reino de Nova Galicia) or simply Nueva Galicia (New Galicia, Nova Galicia) was an autonomous kingdom of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.[1] It was named after Galicia in Spain. Nueva Galicia's territory consisted of the present-day Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas.[2]

  1. ^ MacLachlan, Colin; Rodriguez O., Jaime (1980). The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. University of California Press. pp. 107. ISBN 978-0-520-04280-3.
  2. ^ Provincias Mayores del Reino de Nueva Galicia (Spanish) Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine

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