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Republic of Galicia
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The Galician Republic (Galician: República Galega) was a short-lived Galician state that existed for only a few hours from 27 June 1931, a day ahead of the election to the Second Spanish Republic's Constitutional Assembly, to 28 June 1931. It was proclaimed by Galician nationalist and striking railway workers who had just lost their jobs after the Council of Ministers decided to end construction of a railway between Zamora and A Coruña.[1] While ideas on independence were floated on June 25, two days later on June 27, left-nationalist leaders Pedro Campos Couceiro and Antón Alonso Ríos declared that full independence from Spain was the only way for Galicia to overcome its secular backwardness and to regain its national dignity. Eventually, negotiations between Spanish forces and the Galician instigators would defuse the movement and stop it from spreading. The republic was an ephemeral passage in the history of Galicia.
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Galician Republic República Galega | |||||||||
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1931 | |||||||||
Anthem: Os Pinos | |||||||||
![]() Location of the Galician State (red) within Spain (cream). | |||||||||
Capital | Santiago de Compostela | ||||||||
Common languages | Galician | ||||||||
Leader | |||||||||
• 1931 | Antonio Alonso Ríos [es] | ||||||||
Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• Established | 27 June 1931 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 28 June 1931 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Spain |