Galician Nationalist Bloc
The Galician Nationalist Bloc is a political party from Galicia, formed with the merger of a series of left-wing Galician nationalist parties. It is self-defined as a "patriotic front".
Xosé Manuel Beiras was the spokesperson of the front from 1985 to 2002. Between 1985 and 1989 he was also the only MP of the BNG in the Galician Parliament.
Anxo Quintana speaking at the 2006 National Assembly
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.
Vindel's parchment, containing music and lyrics of several 13th-century cantigas by Martin Codax
One of the oldest legal charters written in Galician, the constitutional charter of the Bo Burgo (Good Burg) of Castro Caldelas, 1228
Mediaeval Galician inscription in a 14th-century house, in Noia: "ESTAS CASAS MANDOU FAZER VASCO DA COSTA, ERA DE MCCCLXXVII" These houses were ordered by Vasco da Costa, era 1377 (1339 AD)
Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century
