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New Galicia
Nueva Galicia Chimalhuacán[1] | |
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| Nuevo Reino de Galicia (in Spanish) New Kingdom of Galicia | |
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| Country |  Spain |
| Viceroyalty | New Spain |
| Royal Audience | Mexico City Compostela (1548–1560) Guadalajara |
| Capital | Guadalajara |
| Established | c. 1531 |
| Dissolved | 1824 |
Nuevo Reino de Galicia (New Kingdom of Galicia; Galician: Reino de Nova Galicia) or simply Nueva Galicia (New Galicia, Nova Galicia), known in Nahuatl as Chimalhuacán (‘the land of shield bearers’),[1] was an autonomous kingdom of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.[2] 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.[3]
- ^ a b J.H. Parry. (1948, reprinted in 1968) The Audencia of New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century — A Study in Spanish Colonial Government Cambridge, UK. pg. 15. ISBN 521-07394-4
- ^ 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.
- ^ Provincias Mayores del Reino de Nueva Galicia (Spanish) Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine