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Annette M. B. Meakin. Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain
Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain
Table of Contents
G A L I C I A
CHAPTER I. ANCIENT GALICIA
CHAPTER II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF GALICIA
CHAPTER III. THE FIRST GOLDEN AGE
CHAPTER IV. THE SALVE REGINA
CHAPTER V. THE LANGUAGE OF GALICIA
CHAPTER VI. PILGRIMS TO SANTIAGO
CHAPTER VII. THE ARCHITECTURE OF GALICIA
CHAPTER VIII. THE CATHEDRAL OF SANTIAGO
CHAPTER IX. THE PORTICO DE GLORIA
CHAPTER X. SCULPTURED CAPITALS
CHAPTER XI. THE ROYAL HOSPITAL
CHAPTER XII. THE COLEGIATA DE SAR
CHAPTER XIII. LA CORUÑA
CHAPTER XIV. EMIGRATION
CHAPTER XV. ROSALIA CASTRO
CHAPTER XVI. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
CHAPTER XVII. GALICIA’S LIVESTOCK
CHAPTER XVIII. PADRON
CHAPTER XIX. LA BELLISIMA NOYA
CHAPTER XX. PONTEVEDRA
CHAPTER XXI. VIGO AND TUY
CHAPTER XXII. ORENSE
CHAPTER XXIII. MONFORTE AND LUGO
CHAPTER XXIV. BETANZOS AND FERROL
CHAPTER XXV. THE GREAT MONASTERIES OF GALICIA
CHAPTER XXVI. TREES, FRUITS, AND FLOWERS
CHAPTER XXVII. DIVES CALLAECIA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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Annette M. B. Meakin
Published by Good Press, 2021
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For twenty-four years Rome and Carthage had fought over Sicily. After the Sicilian defeat the Carthaginians, who were (like the Phœnicians) of Semitic extraction, landed at Cadiz with the flower of their army that they might gain in Spain what they had lost in Sicily.[23] Their leader was Hamilcar Barca, whose ambition it was to conquer Italy as well as Spain. Carthage had exploited Spain for four hundred years when, after the second Punic war, Rome took up the cause of the inhabitants of Spain against their Carthaginian oppressors, and Hamilcar found a worthy opponent in Scipio Africanus. The people of Spain, after fighting on the side of Scipio, were also crushed by the Romans in their turn, but they cost Rome every year an army and a consul. The cruelty of Lucullus and Galba made the name of Rome hateful to Spanish ears. Spanish bandits continually attacked the Roman legions; Rome feared insurrection more and more, and at last was not ashamed to buy with gold the life of her enemy.
When Quintus Fabius had subjugated the greater part of Lusitania,[24] now northern Portugal, the tribes dwelling in Galicia came down against the Roman cities, continually raiding them in flying columns, and fleeing to the mountains for refuge when the Romans gave them chase. Brutus, when he crossed the river Limia, was the leader of an expedition sent out to follow and punish them. In all these skirmishes the Gallegan women played a prominent part, taking the field beside their husbands and brothers, and employing their weapons with the greatest courage and determination. They received their wounds with silent fortitude, and no cry of pain ever escaped their lips, even when the wounds which laid them low were mortal. Both sexes preferred death to loss of liberty, and when taken prisoners they put themselves and their little ones to death that they might not fall into slavery.
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