Kingdom of Galicia in historiography

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The medieval Galician Kingdom, first known as the *Suebian Kingdom of Gallaecia*, started with the Germanic Suebi tribe in the 5th century. This kingdom once included parts of today's Asturias, León and Portugal. It had Christian traditions even during Islamic rule in nearby areas. 

As history was recorded over the centuries, some modern historians altered the narrative around the medieval Kingdom of Galicia. Instead of using the varied names found in historical documents —such as "*Gallaecia Regnum*", "*Gallitia*", "*Gallizia*", "*Galizuland*", "*ard Galika*", "*Yilliqiyya*", "*Jalikia*", etc. — they sometimes replaced these with "*Kingdom of Asturias*" or "*Kingdom of León*".

For some Galician scholars, this change was part of an effort to create a continuous historical line leading to the later Kingdom of Castile and eventually to a unified Spain.

Those scholars have criticized this view because it doesn't match the historical facts. Sometimes, even the historians who hold this view have admitted this issue.

## Gallery 

File:Galician-suevic-kingdom.png|Bishoprics of the Kingdom of Galicia. 6th century: Braga, Porto, Lamego, Coimbra, Dumio, Lugo, Ourense, Astorga, Iria, Britonia, Tui, Idaña, Viseu.
File:Bishoprics of the kingdom of galicia (881).png|Bishoprics of the Kingdom of Galicia. 9th century: Braga (metropolis), Dumio, Porto, Tui, Ourense, Iria, Lugo, Britonia, and Astorga.
File:Galicia in pirrus de noha map.jpg|Iberian Peninsula on Pirrus de Noha's world map. It divides the peninsula between Galicia, Portugal, Spain and Granada.
File:Barco vikingo.jpg|Viking *longship*. The Normans divided the Peninsula into three political spaces: *Galizuland*, *Spánland* and *Skarland*.
File:Galician-Didacus Gelmiri.jpg|The *Historia compostellana*, a book about the life of Didacus Gelmiri and the political events of his time, never mentions the existence of a "kingdom of Leon".
File:Archivo do Reino de Galicia, A Coruña.jpg|Archive of the Kingdom of Galicia, in Coruña.
File:Códice Calixtino (Archivo de la catedral de Santiago de Compostela) (cropped).jpg|*Codex Calixtinus*. Calls Afonso VII "emperor of Spain and Galicia", no reference to the Kingdom of León.
File:Tomb of Afonso VIII de Galicia León (Capela das Reliquias da catedral de Santiago de Compostela).jpg|Tomb of Afonso VIII (as he called himself) in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. Spanish historiography assigns him the numeral "IX", reserving "VIII" for the 1st king of Castile.
File:Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz.png|Sánchez Albornoz. He wrote the article "On a letter from Pope John IX to Alfonso III of Asturias", but King Alfonso was only named king of Galicia in the fonts.
File:Ramón Menéndez Pidal com Charlton Heston.png|Menéndez Pidal on the set of *El cid*.  Hispanist Colin Smith showed Pidal manipulated the *Cantar de Mio Cid* manuscript, analyzing it with X-rays. 

## Related pages 
* Kingdom of Galicia

## References
## Other websites 
* The kingdom of Galicia on medieval maps. YouTube
* Historical Forgeries: The Kingdom of Asturias . Historical Galicia    
* The History of the stories of the Kingdom of Galicia in the histories of Galicia from the 16th century to the present.